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Where my dad was from he was quite a respected man

Mohamed, Kharnita Ratele, Kopano (American Psychological Association, 2012)

The aim of this article is to analyze the operation of nostalgia in the Apartheid Archive Project narratives. In total, a corpus of 138 narratives was read with nostalgia as a frame and 23 narratives were selected for ...

When Relevance Decenters Criticality: The Case of the Crime, Violence and Injury Lead Programme

Seedat, Mohamed (2010)

Following the formal demise of political apartheid in South Africa in 1994, critical and community-centred psychologists have tended to obtain relevance through alignment with the tenets of social justice and the larger ...

Tracing the utility of injury surveillance data in Pretoria (South Africa) and Boras (Sweden)

Gouveia, Joanne Seedat, Mohamed Ekman, Robert Stark Ekman, Diana Bowman, Brett (2011)

Our research attempted to study the factors that influenced the use of injury data in two cities, representing different injury and socio-economic profiles. In Pretoria, the capital South African city, injury data uptake ...

Discursive constructions of the Israel-Hezbollah war: The struggle for representation

Lau, Ursula Seedat, Mohamed McRitchie, Victoria (Fullerton, 2011-04)

The media plays a contributing influence in exacerbating hostilities between war protagonists. Through particular representations, specific groups are either hailed or vilified; thereby resulting in a ‘spill-over effect’ ...

Community Psychology in South Africa: Origins, Developments and Manifestations

Seedat, Mohamed Lazarus, Sandy (Blackwell & Wiley, 2011-04)

This article represents a South African contribution to the growing international body of knowledge on histories of community psychology. The authors trace the early antecedents of social-community psychology interventions ...

Developing the evidence-base for safe communities: A multi level, partly randomised, controlled trial

Seedat, Mohamed McClure, R. (Taylor & Francis, 2012-12)

Safe communities, representing a global activation of the public health logic, may be strengthened through theoretical, methodological and empirical support. In the spirit of this Special Issue that aims to analyse the ...

Community-based Participatory Research a Low-income Setting : An Illustrative Case of Study

Lazarus, Sandy Taliep, Naiema Bulbulia, Abdulsamed Phillips, Shaun Seedat, Mohamed (AJOL, 2012)

This article describes a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach in a low-income setting. Using the SCRATCHMAPS project as a case example and with literature control, we show that CBPR is influenced by ...

Lifelong learning in sub-Saharan Africa

Preece, Julia Odora Hoppers, Catherine A. (Taylor & Francis, 2011)

Guest editorial: Lifelong learning in sub-Saharan Africa

Black scholarship: Doing something active and positive about academic racism

Duncan N. Seedat, Mohamed van Niekerk, Ashley De La Rey C. Gobodo-Madikizela P. Simbayi L.C. Bhana A. (Sage, 1997)

This 'article' serves as introduction to the Special Issue: black scholarship. As such, it outlines the various articles contained in, as well as the rationale for the issue. In this article the authors argue that programmatic ...

The use of public health research in stimulating violence and injury prevention practices and policies: Reflections from South Africa

Seedat Mohamed Nascimento A. (2003)

There is a paucity of academic work examining the applicability and utility of epidemiological data in efforts to inform injury prevention policy and practice. Drawing on experiences from two South African case examples ...

How has psychology fared over ten years of democracy? Achievements, challenges and questions

Suffla, Shahnaaz Seedat, Mohamed (2004)

This Special Issue of the South African Journal of Psychology (SAJP) seeks to reflect critically on the role and relevance of South African psychology in the context of social transformation. Contributors to this Special ...

National Injury Mortality Surveillance System - A call for city-level injury prevention

Matzopoulos R. Seedat, Mohamed (2005)

The impact of a home visitation programme on household hazards associated with unintentional childhood injuries: A randomised controlled trial

Odendaal, Willem van Niekerk, Ashley Jordaan, Esme Seedat, Mohamed (Elsevier, 2009)

Background: The continued high mortality and morbidity rates for unintentional childhood injuries remain a public health concern. This article reports on the influence of a home visitation programme (HVP) on household ...

Why the Wretched Kill in Democratic South Africa

Seedat, Mohamed Baw U. Ratele, Kopano (2010)

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Towards the Development of a Responsive, Social Science-informed, Critical Public Health Framework on Male Interpersonal Violence

Ratele, Kopano Suffla, Shahnaaz Lazarus, Sandy van Niekerk, Ashley (2010)

[No abstract available]

Contraceptive challenges experienced by women who requested termination of pregnancy services in the Mpumalanga Province

Mbokane, A.N. Ehlers, V.J. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2006)

Although contraceptives are available free of charge throughout South Africa, the number of requests for termination of pregnancy (TOP) services continues to increase. This research investigated challenges preventing women ...

An African Cultural Renaissance Perspective on Constitutionalism, Democracy, Peace, Justice and Shared Values: Challenges & Stakes for Statehood and Nation-building

Mboup, Samba Buri (2011-01-08)

Beyond folklore, dance, music, culture refers, in a more substantive and comprehensive way, to the sum of ideas, knowledge systems and instrumentalities (institutional, scientific, technological and political) by means ...

Challenges and stakes in the africanisation process of research, scholarship and university curricula, in the context of Globalisation & in the perspective of African Renaissance

Mboup, Samba Buri (2008-01-10)

African Renaissance can be viewed as an alternative and global project of society and civilization, aiming at the creation of the objective conditions for the re-birth of Africa as a scientific, technological as well as ...

Difficulties in the comprehension and interpretation of a selection of graph types and subject-specific graphs displayed by senior undergraduate biochemistry students in a South African university

Van Tonder, André (2010-11)

A carefully constructed set of 16 graphical tasks related to key biochemistry concepts was designed and administered to a group of 82 students in their final year of B.Sc. study. The test mean score of 48,3% ( 12,1) was ...

The contribution of simulations to the practical work of foundation physics students at the University of Limpopo

Mhlongo, Motlalepula Rebecca (2010-06)

Practical work is regarded as an essential part of learning; hence most tertiary institutions have included a practical component in their physics courses. There is a concern about the effectiveness of the practical work ...

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