Dipane Hlalele
Biographic Data
| ID | 186650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dipane Hlalele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dipane |
| FAMILY NAME | Hlalele |
| SIGNATURE | HLALELE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4455-4876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The geographies of ethics in Digital Humanities research
This paper explored the geographies of ethics in digital humanities research, examining how ethical practices are shaped by spatial, political, and social contexts. For the purpose of this research, the concept of geographies is understood not solely in spatial terms, but as psycho-social and socio-political spaces that are recursively constructed through research processes. Digital humanities represent a significant shift in the humanities and s…
Assessing Students` Experiences of Psychosocial Support for Sustainable Learning at a South African TVET College
A positive psychosocial environment is necessary to create a conducive environment for effective teaching and learning. Thus, this study assessed students` experiences of psychosocial support for sustainable learning at a South African TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) College. This study followed a qualitative phenomenological research technique, which provides participants with a voice to share their psychosocial experience…
Successes and Failures of the University-Community Partnership
Universities should conduct research and provide services to the society in their environment. In this article, the relational leadership model was used to evaluate a University-Community partnership in a semi-rural context in South Africa. The relational leadership model is an aspirational model supporting a healthy, ethical, and effective group. It comprises five components necessary for sustainable positive change in an organization. The model…
Geographies of becoming
LGBTQI issues have become commonly investigated phenomena in research lately, probably due to the rise in the number of queer sexuality people who are “coming out” to open about their true sexual identities. A lot of research today explores LGBTQI population challenges. One critical challenge facing this minority population is their constant movement from one place to the other. Though research on LGBTQI migration is constantly growing, there is …
Challenging Gender Certainties in Early Childhood Care and Education
For deep-rooted gender equity and social transformation, we need to challenge so-called certainties or dominant ideologies about gender. Many dominant ideologies centred on gender abound in society, and these need to be addressed at the earliest opportunity. Early childhood care and education (ECCE) refers to the care and education of children from birth to 4 years old, and this is an opportune period for teachers to examine and challenge certain…
Sexual Diversity
The emergence of 'new' sexualities inflicted lots of confusions among Basotho. It is not surprising, therefore, that diverse attitudes towards these minority populations were also likely to emerge. Families and peers (or friends) also demonstrated diverse attitudes towards the minority population. This qualitative, evidence-based paper tapped into social constructivism to explore peer and family attitudes (rejection or acceptance) towards sexuall…
The paradox of complex systems
Children in rural learning ecologies are faced with multiple vulnerabilities aggravated by a number of factors. The use of resources readily available may be helpful in managing vulnerabilities. Undergirded by complexity theory principles, this study unpacks the effectiveness of local resources in highly multiple vulnerable areas with a focus in managing multiple vulnerabilities for the wellbeing of children in rural learning ecologies. Participa…
Sustainable learning for refugee children in South African primary schools
Background: The advent of democracy in South Africa brought about many changes in the education system. Policies and frameworks that guide the embracement of refugee children were formulated and later implemented. However, there are ongoing challenges experienced by this group and the incidents of poor access and quality of provision experienced by a larger population of refugee children, calls for urgent redress. Aim: This is a theoretical artic…
Understanding Women Teacher Transnational Migration
In this article, we explore and seek to understand transnational teacher migration from the narrative expressions of two women who migrated from their home countries to another southern African country. The data are complemented by a self-constructed narrative of a woman who left her home country. Framed through Appreciative Inquiry, the study observes that all individuals, organizations, and institutions are powered by positive thought and have …
Culture, Religion and Sexual Diversity in Lesotho
This paper explores community dialogues as social interaction in search for sexual diversity in Lesotho, in an effort to influence positive and more directional thinking towards sexuality and sexual behaviour. Guided by queer theory, we firstly explore cultural and religious dimensions defining acceptable and unacceptable sexual behaviour; their influence on attitudes towards the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (or queer) and int…
Engaging critical emancipatory research as an alternative to mitigate school violence in South Africa
In this theoretical paper, we contribute to ongoing narratives that attempt to mitigate and curb school violence. We do this by critiquing school relations through the lens of critical emancipatory research. Critical emancipatory research has the impetus to map skewed relations that exacerbate school violence in South African schools. In order to achieve our aim, we highlight various principles of critical emancipatory research that position the …
The Afromontane Research Unit (ARU) in South Africa
Tucked in the foothills of the Maluti-Drakensberg Mountains is the Qwaqwa campus of the University of the Free State. This is the home of the Afromontane Research Unit, a multidisciplinary flagship unit addressing a largely under-researched area in South Africa
Challenging the narrative of gender socialisation
This article presents a Digital Storytelling (DST) pilot as a small scale intervention with university women for girls in a rural South African secondary school. It explores how learners can be empowered as agents of change against family/ community-related violence. It challenges conventional gender stereotypes that advance socialisation of females into prescribed behaviours and offers an engaged methodology as a way for girls and young women to…
My Unparalleled Experience’
The purpose of this paper, guided by Appreciative Inquiry (AI) prescripts, was to understand and interpret the live experiences of three (out of the five) University of the Free State (UFS), Qwaqwa campus firstyear students who went on a short study-abroad program to some universities in the United States of America (USA). The three students, who come from historically disadvantaged backgrounds, made up the first cohort of 71 UFS students who wer…
Creating Sustainable Rural Learning Ecologies in South Africa
Current educational and other research finds that it is no longer desirable, appropriate or useful to define urban in terms of rural or the other way round. To do so is to create a competitive relationship between them, to the disadvantage of rural areas. Such thinking also generalises situations that are actually very different from each other. Furthermore, a “one size fits all” approach to policy and its implementation makes it possible to over…
An Evaluation of the Implementation and Management of an HIV/Aids Prevention Programme in Lesotho Schools
Lesotho has, amongst other strategies, implemented an HIV/AIDS prevention programme that sought to enmesh HIV/AIDS content into the school curriculum. It is however, not clearly stated that teachers, deemed to play a pivotal role in respect of implementation of the programme, were adequately prepared, trained and convinced to make what seems to be a selfless and necessary contribution, that is, effectively implementing the prevention programme. D…
Sustainable rural learning ecologies- a prolegomenon traversing transcendence of discursive notions of sustainability, social justice, development and food sovereignty
This paper contributes, through traversing contested notions of sustainability, social justice, development and food sovereignty, to discourses around creation of sustainable rural learning ecologies. There has always been at least in the realm of scientific discourse, an attempt to dissociate the natural or physical environment from the social and human environment. This trend did not only affect the two spheres of existence only. It is further …
Theoretical Perspectives on Community Engagement in HIV Prevention and Programming among the Basotho Tribe
Community level HIV prevention proposes that attempts to change the norms, attitudes, collective self-efficacy and risk behaviour practices in populations vulnerable to AIDS are essential for various reasons. People contract HIV as a result of sexual and drug abuse activities that take place in their day-to-day lives in the community. Changing communities to make them safer is a logical direction for HIV prevention; hence community level and popu…
Academic Behavioural Confidence of First-entering Mathematics and Science University Access Program Students
The current study seeks to gain insight into the Academic Behavioural Confidence (ABC) of first-entering university access program students intending to enroll for mathematics and science degree programs at a historically disadvantaged campus that was incorporated into a historically White university. The study adopts a quantitative-descriptive (survey) design. The respondents, 169 university access program students, completed the questionnaires …
Overcoming Adversity
The whole world is working towards creation of sustainable learning ecologies and mobilization of better and socially acceptable life through provision of transformed quality education for all. In order to achieve this, societies, in their different ecologies, should work collaboratively. This is, however, critical to achieve because most of the rural ecologies are faced with poverty, as such, it seems very difficult for them to render education …
Inclusive Classrooms
This paper explores various aspects of learning in inclusive classrooms from an ecosystemic perspective. One purpose of including learners with disabilities in inclusive classrooms, as opposed to segregating them in special educational classrooms, is to help all learners (learners with and without disabilities) learn to live, work and play together, so that eventually they can successfully live, work and be together in the community as adults. In…
Contesting the African ritual of animal slaughtering as intangible cultural heritage
This article seeks to highlight the understanding of and insight into the African ritual of animal slaughtering in South Africa. Reference will be made to the ritual as performed by the African National Congress (ANC) activist, Tony Yengeni after being released from prison in 2007. Furthermore, the paper shows its implications for current debates on intangible heritage and human rights in South Africa. It adopts a descriptive and narrative approa…
Gender Inequality and HIV/Aids in Lesotho
In this article we ponder gender inequality and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the context of Lesotho from a human disease ecological perspective. Overwhelming literature reveals a general trend in terms of inequalities relating to power relations, socialisation and culture, as well as legislation. Women remain disadvantaged. However, the reverse of the current scenario seems to have not always been…
Challenging the narrative of gender socialisation
This article presents a Digital Storytelling (DST) pilot as a small scale intervention with university women for girls in a rural South African secondary school. It explores how learners can be empowered as agents of change against family/ community-related violence. It challenges conventional gender stereotypes that advance socialisation of females into prescribed behaviours and offers an engaged methodology as a way for girls and young women to…
Culture, Religion and Sexual Diversity in Lesotho
This paper explores community dialogues as social interaction in search for sexual diversity in Lesotho, in an effort to influence positive and more directional thinking towards sexuality and sexual behaviour. Guided by queer theory, we firstly explore cultural and religious dimensions defining acceptable and unacceptable sexual behaviour; their influence on attitudes towards the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (or queer) and int…
Engaging critical emancipatory research as an alternative to mitigate school violence in South Africa
In this theoretical paper, we contribute to ongoing narratives that attempt to mitigate and curb school violence. We do this by critiquing school relations through the lens of critical emancipatory research. Critical emancipatory research has the impetus to map skewed relations that exacerbate school violence in South African schools. In order to achieve our aim, we highlight various principles of critical emancipatory research that position the …
Successes and Failures of the University-Community Partnership
Universities should conduct research and provide services to the society in their environment. In this article, the relational leadership model was used to evaluate a University-Community partnership in a semi-rural context in South Africa. The relational leadership model is an aspirational model supporting a healthy, ethical, and effective group. It comprises five components necessary for sustainable positive change in an organization. The model…
Challenging Gender Certainties in Early Childhood Care and Education
For deep-rooted gender equity and social transformation, we need to challenge so-called certainties or dominant ideologies about gender. Many dominant ideologies centred on gender abound in society, and these need to be addressed at the earliest opportunity. Early childhood care and education (ECCE) refers to the care and education of children from birth to 4 years old, and this is an opportune period for teachers to examine and challenge certain…
My Unparalleled Experience’
The purpose of this paper, guided by Appreciative Inquiry (AI) prescripts, was to understand and interpret the live experiences of three (out of the five) University of the Free State (UFS), Qwaqwa campus firstyear students who went on a short study-abroad program to some universities in the United States of America (USA). The three students, who come from historically disadvantaged backgrounds, made up the first cohort of 71 UFS students who wer…
Sustainable rural learning ecologies- a prolegomenon traversing transcendence of discursive notions of sustainability, social justice, development and food sovereignty
This paper contributes, through traversing contested notions of sustainability, social justice, development and food sovereignty, to discourses around creation of sustainable rural learning ecologies. There has always been at least in the realm of scientific discourse, an attempt to dissociate the natural or physical environment from the social and human environment. This trend did not only affect the two spheres of existence only. It is further …
Overcoming Adversity
The whole world is working towards creation of sustainable learning ecologies and mobilization of better and socially acceptable life through provision of transformed quality education for all. In order to achieve this, societies, in their different ecologies, should work collaboratively. This is, however, critical to achieve because most of the rural ecologies are faced with poverty, as such, it seems very difficult for them to render education …
Gender Inequality and HIV/Aids in Lesotho
In this article we ponder gender inequality and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the context of Lesotho from a human disease ecological perspective. Overwhelming literature reveals a general trend in terms of inequalities relating to power relations, socialisation and culture, as well as legislation. Women remain disadvantaged. However, the reverse of the current scenario seems to have not always been…
Gender Inequality and HIV/Aids in Lesotho
In this article we ponder gender inequality and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the context of Lesotho from a human disease ecological perspective. Overwhelming literature reveals a general trend in terms of inequalities relating to power relations, socialisation and culture, as well as legislation. Women remain disadvantaged. However, the reverse of the current scenario seems to have not always been…
Theoretical Perspectives on Community Engagement in HIV Prevention and Programming among the Basotho Tribe
Community level HIV prevention proposes that attempts to change the norms, attitudes, collective self-efficacy and risk behaviour practices in populations vulnerable to AIDS are essential for various reasons. People contract HIV as a result of sexual and drug abuse activities that take place in their day-to-day lives in the community. Changing communities to make them safer is a logical direction for HIV prevention; hence community level and popu…
Academic Behavioural Confidence of First-entering Mathematics and Science University Access Program Students
The current study seeks to gain insight into the Academic Behavioural Confidence (ABC) of first-entering university access program students intending to enroll for mathematics and science degree programs at a historically disadvantaged campus that was incorporated into a historically White university. The study adopts a quantitative-descriptive (survey) design. The respondents, 169 university access program students, completed the questionnaires …
Overcoming Adversity
The whole world is working towards creation of sustainable learning ecologies and mobilization of better and socially acceptable life through provision of transformed quality education for all. In order to achieve this, societies, in their different ecologies, should work collaboratively. This is, however, critical to achieve because most of the rural ecologies are faced with poverty, as such, it seems very difficult for them to render education …
Inclusive Classrooms
This paper explores various aspects of learning in inclusive classrooms from an ecosystemic perspective. One purpose of including learners with disabilities in inclusive classrooms, as opposed to segregating them in special educational classrooms, is to help all learners (learners with and without disabilities) learn to live, work and play together, so that eventually they can successfully live, work and be together in the community as adults. In…
Contesting the African ritual of animal slaughtering as intangible cultural heritage
This article seeks to highlight the understanding of and insight into the African ritual of animal slaughtering in South Africa. Reference will be made to the ritual as performed by the African National Congress (ANC) activist, Tony Yengeni after being released from prison in 2007. Furthermore, the paper shows its implications for current debates on intangible heritage and human rights in South Africa. It adopts a descriptive and narrative approa…
An Evaluation of the Implementation and Management of an HIV/Aids Prevention Programme in Lesotho Schools
Lesotho has, amongst other strategies, implemented an HIV/AIDS prevention programme that sought to enmesh HIV/AIDS content into the school curriculum. It is however, not clearly stated that teachers, deemed to play a pivotal role in respect of implementation of the programme, were adequately prepared, trained and convinced to make what seems to be a selfless and necessary contribution, that is, effectively implementing the prevention programme. D…
Sustainable rural learning ecologies- a prolegomenon traversing transcendence of discursive notions of sustainability, social justice, development and food sovereignty
This paper contributes, through traversing contested notions of sustainability, social justice, development and food sovereignty, to discourses around creation of sustainable rural learning ecologies. There has always been at least in the realm of scientific discourse, an attempt to dissociate the natural or physical environment from the social and human environment. This trend did not only affect the two spheres of existence only. It is further …
My Unparalleled Experience’
The purpose of this paper, guided by Appreciative Inquiry (AI) prescripts, was to understand and interpret the live experiences of three (out of the five) University of the Free State (UFS), Qwaqwa campus firstyear students who went on a short study-abroad program to some universities in the United States of America (USA). The three students, who come from historically disadvantaged backgrounds, made up the first cohort of 71 UFS students who wer…
Creating Sustainable Rural Learning Ecologies in South Africa
Current educational and other research finds that it is no longer desirable, appropriate or useful to define urban in terms of rural or the other way round. To do so is to create a competitive relationship between them, to the disadvantage of rural areas. Such thinking also generalises situations that are actually very different from each other. Furthermore, a “one size fits all” approach to policy and its implementation makes it possible to over…
Challenging the narrative of gender socialisation
This article presents a Digital Storytelling (DST) pilot as a small scale intervention with university women for girls in a rural South African secondary school. It explores how learners can be empowered as agents of change against family/ community-related violence. It challenges conventional gender stereotypes that advance socialisation of females into prescribed behaviours and offers an engaged methodology as a way for girls and young women to…
The Afromontane Research Unit (ARU) in South Africa
Tucked in the foothills of the Maluti-Drakensberg Mountains is the Qwaqwa campus of the University of the Free State. This is the home of the Afromontane Research Unit, a multidisciplinary flagship unit addressing a largely under-researched area in South Africa
Engaging critical emancipatory research as an alternative to mitigate school violence in South Africa
In this theoretical paper, we contribute to ongoing narratives that attempt to mitigate and curb school violence. We do this by critiquing school relations through the lens of critical emancipatory research. Critical emancipatory research has the impetus to map skewed relations that exacerbate school violence in South African schools. In order to achieve our aim, we highlight various principles of critical emancipatory research that position the …
Understanding Women Teacher Transnational Migration
In this article, we explore and seek to understand transnational teacher migration from the narrative expressions of two women who migrated from their home countries to another southern African country. The data are complemented by a self-constructed narrative of a woman who left her home country. Framed through Appreciative Inquiry, the study observes that all individuals, organizations, and institutions are powered by positive thought and have …
Culture, Religion and Sexual Diversity in Lesotho
This paper explores community dialogues as social interaction in search for sexual diversity in Lesotho, in an effort to influence positive and more directional thinking towards sexuality and sexual behaviour. Guided by queer theory, we firstly explore cultural and religious dimensions defining acceptable and unacceptable sexual behaviour; their influence on attitudes towards the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (or queer) and int…
The paradox of complex systems
Children in rural learning ecologies are faced with multiple vulnerabilities aggravated by a number of factors. The use of resources readily available may be helpful in managing vulnerabilities. Undergirded by complexity theory principles, this study unpacks the effectiveness of local resources in highly multiple vulnerable areas with a focus in managing multiple vulnerabilities for the wellbeing of children in rural learning ecologies. Participa…
Sustainable learning for refugee children in South African primary schools
Background: The advent of democracy in South Africa brought about many changes in the education system. Policies and frameworks that guide the embracement of refugee children were formulated and later implemented. However, there are ongoing challenges experienced by this group and the incidents of poor access and quality of provision experienced by a larger population of refugee children, calls for urgent redress. Aim: This is a theoretical artic…
Geographies of becoming
LGBTQI issues have become commonly investigated phenomena in research lately, probably due to the rise in the number of queer sexuality people who are “coming out” to open about their true sexual identities. A lot of research today explores LGBTQI population challenges. One critical challenge facing this minority population is their constant movement from one place to the other. Though research on LGBTQI migration is constantly growing, there is …
Challenging Gender Certainties in Early Childhood Care and Education
For deep-rooted gender equity and social transformation, we need to challenge so-called certainties or dominant ideologies about gender. Many dominant ideologies centred on gender abound in society, and these need to be addressed at the earliest opportunity. Early childhood care and education (ECCE) refers to the care and education of children from birth to 4 years old, and this is an opportune period for teachers to examine and challenge certain…
Sexual Diversity
The emergence of 'new' sexualities inflicted lots of confusions among Basotho. It is not surprising, therefore, that diverse attitudes towards these minority populations were also likely to emerge. Families and peers (or friends) also demonstrated diverse attitudes towards the minority population. This qualitative, evidence-based paper tapped into social constructivism to explore peer and family attitudes (rejection or acceptance) towards sexuall…
Successes and Failures of the University-Community Partnership
Universities should conduct research and provide services to the society in their environment. In this article, the relational leadership model was used to evaluate a University-Community partnership in a semi-rural context in South Africa. The relational leadership model is an aspirational model supporting a healthy, ethical, and effective group. It comprises five components necessary for sustainable positive change in an organization. The model…
Assessing Students` Experiences of Psychosocial Support for Sustainable Learning at a South African TVET College
A positive psychosocial environment is necessary to create a conducive environment for effective teaching and learning. Thus, this study assessed students` experiences of psychosocial support for sustainable learning at a South African TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) College. This study followed a qualitative phenomenological research technique, which provides participants with a voice to share their psychosocial experience…
The geographies of ethics in Digital Humanities research
This paper explored the geographies of ethics in digital humanities research, examining how ethical practices are shaped by spatial, political, and social contexts. For the purpose of this research, the concept of geographies is understood not solely in spatial terms, but as psycho-social and socio-political spaces that are recursively constructed through research processes. Digital humanities represent a significant shift in the humanities and s…
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