The use of information and communication technologies in public libraries in South Africa as tools for bridging the digital divide: the case of the Kempton Park public library

ABSTRACT

The information and knowledge society has resulted in the exponential growth of information and communication technologies (ICTs), thus creating a gap between those who use ICTs and those who do not; hence the emergence of the term “digital divide” in the 1990s. One of the milestones of South Africa’s National Development Plan, a policy that charts the country’s development up until 2030, is to ensure that high-speed broadband internet is universally available at competitive prices. Notwithstanding the importance of ICTs in public libraries, the provision of such is still taking place on a limited scale in South Africa. This article investigates the use of ICTs in public libraries in South Africa as a tool in bridging the digital divide. It also examines the inequalities in access and use and suggests ways in which ICTs may be used to reduce the digital divide. A qualitative research methodology was adopted. In order for public libraries to function as an important tool in bridging the digital divide, there is a need to standardize the provision of public library services with regard to the digital divide.     

论赋学与楚辞学的分合

本通过对本的编辑,献目录对作品的分类收录以及古代论对体的分类评述等三方面考察,认为赋学与楚辞学自南朝萧梁时期开始分离,各自朝不同方向发展。同时,又通过分析楚辞学对骚赋的看法及赋学的“祖骚宗汉”说,认定二学虽分开而并未完全分离,其间自有相关的连结。因此赋学与楚辞学是既有区别又联系紧密的两门学问,都是中国学批评史所不可缺少的重要组成部分。     

东亚滨海城市国际旅游开发中的文化整合

从文化的角度探讨东亚滨海旅游资源的整合问题.从“旅游文化圈”是“旅游经济圈”形成的先决条件的观点出发,分析东亚滨海城市旅游发展情况,指出东亚滨海旅游一体化进程有必要进行文化整合并已经具备整合的基础和条件.总结集聚、互补、贯穿、辐射等文化整合的4种类型和途径,并提出相应的整合策略.     

韩国经济起飞的日本因素

20世纪60年代,韩国制定了出口导向的经济发展计划,但韩国经济凋敝,缺乏工业化所需的庞大的资金和先进的技术。而通过日韩关系正常化,取得日本的赔偿,是导入外资的重要途径。1965年《日韩协定》签定以来,日本对韩国的援助以及技术交流在一定程度上支持着韩国的越南特需,并在第2个5年计划期间作为主要财源,为韩国的经济发展带来活力,另一方面,日本对韩国的援助和投资,也开拓了日企的市场,提高日本对韩国的出口,并使韩国对日贸易长期处于赤字状态。     

A historical analysis of academic development using the theoretical lens of Pierre Bourdieu

This paper provides a history of academic development by examining how a South African institution coped with the potent social forces confronting it before the collapse of apartheid. Theoretically, it draws on the framework of Pierre Bourdieu and engages with a paper written a decade ago by Naidoo, who also used Bourdieu to understand institutional change in South Africa in the late 1980s. Through contrasting the habitus of two professors, it is argued that academic development helps to preserve the autonomy of the university field by refracting forces impinging on it from the economic and political realms.     

System-wide improvement of early-grade mathematics: New evidence from the Gauteng Primary Language and Mathematics Strategy

This article reports on a two-year evaluation of the Gauteng Primary Language and Mathematics Strategy (GPLMS), an innovative system-wide reform intervention designed to improve learning outcomes in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Using data from universal testing of all learners in 2008 on a provincial systemic evaluation, as well as data from the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Annual National Assessment tests, this article investigates whether or not the GPLMS improves the numeracy skills of learners in early-grade mathematics in underperforming schools. Using as identification strategy, the natural experiment that resulted from a miscalculation of the provincial systemic evaluation test scores in 2008, which had been used to assign schools to the GPLMS intervention, the study shows that the GPLMS intervention is positively associated with improvements in early-grade mathematics performance of schools in the neighbourhood around the assignment threshold. The findings of the study contribute to the growing body of knowledge that shows the effectiveness of combining lesson plans, learner resources, and quality teacher capacity building.     

失去的机会还是无法实现的和解？——1941年近卫文唐-罗斯福会谈流产论析

1941年8月，由日本提议的近卫文唐-罗斯福会谈经美日双方几个月的交涉最终被美国所拒绝。这种结局与当时的世界局势以及美日两国各自的国内局势密不可分，此时美日利益的协调空间已不大，再加上日本军方、美国盟国的反对以及美国对日战略优势所产生的自信，这些都使得这个会谈遭受流产的命运。     

南水北调中线工程水源地旅游可持续发展研究

丹江口水库作为南水北调中线工程水源地，一方面要保护水源地环境，一方面要满足日益增长的旅游需求，成为地方脱贫致富的支柱产业。因此，水源地旅游要实现可持续发展，就要在保护环境的前提下，明确发展方向，培育核心竞争力，采取积极有效的发展策略。     

南园前五先生近体诗用韵研究

南因前五先生，指元末明初的岭南诗人孙黄、王佐、赵介、李德、黄哲五人。其近体诗的用韵，可以分为十九部，这些分部多与元代韵部相同，但又有新的发展。这反映了元末明初岭南方音发展变化的情况。     

‘Tours of Imperialism’: Cricket and Cultural Transfer in South Africa, 1880–1910

Abstract

Few can deny the significance of sport in today’s South Africa. The sporting structures upon which this is based were first introduced to the country by the British in the late nineteenth century. In line with policies of cultural imperialism, sports such as cricket were promoted at this time as part of a wider political agenda that encouraged the adoption of an ‘English’ way of life in the region. Sports tours, most notably cricket, were a fundamental part of this cultural transfer between the ‘Mother Country’ and her colonies in Southern Africa. To underpin the study of transnational linkages and transfer in African sports, this paper will offer an historical overview of how ‘British-styled’ sport arrived in South Africa and how the early cricket tours between England and South Africa were constructed to promote distinct political and cultural connections. This paper will explore the early development of cricket in South Africa and investigate its symbiotic link to British imperialism and colonialism via the first tours and sporting exchanges that took place. The origins of the game in South Africa will be examined as well as its development up to 1910 (the date of Union in South Africa) as the site of a constructed transnational 'brotherhood' between Britain and its most coveted African colonies.