Jacques De Wet

Biographic Data

ID1399554
NAMEJacques De Wet
GIVEN NAMESJacques
FAMILY NAMEDe Wet
SIGNATUREDE WET J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cape Town
ORCID0000-0002-5581-0567
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Giddens, Sen and IsiXhosa-Speaking Women Traders

    Open AccessTsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa, Jacques De WetARTICLESociety in Transition2024

    Grafting selected elements into a primary theory from another theoretical approach can sometimes enhance the theoretical framework to facilitate more refined data analysis. Because of the possible risks of theoretical fragmentation that may result from incorporating elements of different theories into a single framework, we opted for grafting selected elements of one theory into our primary theory, to carefully retain the logical coherence of the…

  • Policy on trial

    Charlize Tomaselli, Jacques P De Wet et al.ARTICLEDevelopment Southern Africa2024

    This paper examines the conflict in South African government development policy and law between a people-centred participatory approach and a neoliberal growth-centred approach. In particular, we discuss how this conflict has played out in a series of related court cases from 2021 to 2022. Methodologically, the case study is based on three court judgments with individual fishers, community representatives, civil society organisations and legal en…

  • A Courtly Dance

    Erna Louisa Prinsloo, Jacques De WetARTICLESociety in Transition2022

    Interactive research with large non-profit organisations holds the promise of deepening scholarship, benefitting the research enterprise, and improving service delivery to vulnerable groups. Research implementation can be finessed from start to completion by not being tone-deaf to the reputational sensitivities of well-established non-profit organisations and by being reflective about how the researcher contributes to the research process. Reflex…

  • Social construction of the meanings of imfundo by African intellectuals in the Cape Colony at the turn of the twentieth century

    Jacques P De Wet, Jacques De WetARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2022

    In Africa, the decolonisation of academic work requires that academics write in African languages (or bilingually in English/French/Portuguese and the vernacular) and engage with texts written in these languages. With this in mind, I have been researching the socially constructed meanings of the concept imfundo (education) as they are conveyed in early isiXhosa texts written in the late 1800s and early 1900s by African intellectuals. In this pape…

  • Standardising the reproduction of Schwartz’s two-dimensional value space using multi-dimensional scaling and goodness-of-fit test procedures

    Open AccessJacques De Wet, Daniela Wetzelhütter et al.ARTICLEQuality & Quantity2021

  • Testing a Modified Version of Schwartz’s Portrait Values Questionnaire to Measure Organizational Values in a University Context

    Open AccessDaniela Wetzelhütter, Chigozie Nnebedum et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Values2020Cited by: 1References: 5

    Schwartz developed his Theory of Basic Human Values and corresponding instruments, the portrait values questionnaire (PVQ) and the Schwartz values survey (SVS), in order to measure personal values. He uses these instruments (in a slightly modified form) in conjunction with his Theory of Cultural Value Orientations to measure cultural or societal values. His theoretical work is also used in studying organizational values; however, none of these in…

  • Towards rigorous practice

    Open AccessTracey E Phillips, Tracey Phillips et al.ARTICLEEvaluation2017Cited by: 1References: 7

    This article reflects on the design and application of a framework for assessing the rigour of naturalistic evaluations in the development sector. The framework was employed in a review of a naturalistic evaluation ‘model’. It focused on the quality of evaluation results generated by the application of this model to outcome and impact assessments of development programmes. Naturalistic evaluation research is frequently portrayed as lacking in rig…

  • The learning organisation

    Jacques P De Wet, Jacques De Wet et al.ARTICLEDevelopment in Practice2016References: 8

    Amidst criticism of the concept of “the learning organisation” there is a perspective which is both critical of, and open to, innovative ways of developing the notion of a learning organisation. This article contributes to this perspective by examining the learning practices of a feminist NGO which operates across Southern Africa. The ways in which this NGO has interpreted the idea of a learning organisation and put it into practice are an exampl…

  • Who will guard the guardians? Amartya Sen's contribution to development evaluation

    Stephen C Porter, Stephen Porter et al.ARTICLEDevelopment in Practice2009References: 3

    An Action Learning process integrated with Sen's Capability Approach can support development agencies to formulate interventions that enhance freedom. The authors show that putting this approach into practice has important implications for the manner in which ‘development’ is undertaken as an ideological project. It may help to examine and challenge those who hold power in development: the guardians. This finding is the result of an emergent Acti…

  • A Survey of Music Education in the Primary Schools of South Africa's Cape Peninsula

    Open AccessAnri Herbst, Jacques De Wet et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Music…2005

    Anri Herbst, Jacques de Wet, Susan Rijsdijk, A Survey of Music Education in the Primary Schools of South Africa's Cape Peninsula, Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Autumn, 2005), pp. 260-283