George Mavunga
Biographic Data
| ID | 189779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Mavunga |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Mavunga |
| SIGNATURE | MAVUNGA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2253-6477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Going beyond the official domain in the search for the culture of employee learning: The case of junior support staff at a South African university
Based on HCT (human capital theory), employee learning and the culture associated with it in South Africa and globally have generally been researched from the perspective of the normative government or employer-initiated policies and programmes. Using Bernsteinâ€TMs (2000) theory of the pedagogic device, this paper suggests the existence of different domains of learning with respect to junior support staff at a South African university. The paper…
FeesMustFall Protests in South Africa: A Critical Realist Analysis of Selected Newspaper Articles
Using Critical Realism (CR), this article looks at articles from selected South African newspapers which reported on the #FeesMustFall protests. The study established that, arising from the protests, was a culture characteried by tensions and distrust among stakeholders such as students, university management and the government. This, the article argues, was a result of how each of these stakeholdersperceived, and went on to exercise, their agenc…
‘ Iwe ’ or ‘ imi ’? An analysis of terms of address used by police officers at Mbare Police Station
Using Fairclough's (1989) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Giles’ (1971) Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT), this article analyses the terms of address used by police officers at Mbare Police Station in Harare in conversational interaction either with suspects or with people visiting their relatives in custody at the police station. The data analysed in this research was collected through participant observation where the researchers p…
The Zimbabwe crisis as captured in Shona metaphor
This article examines the metaphors that the Zimbabwean Shona speakers created to communicate various messages concerning the socio-economic and political crisis that has been occurring in their country since the year 2000. The data for this study came from two sources, namely, field notes from participant observations taken of naturally occurring interactions in the public and private spheres from August to December of 2008 and semi-structured i…
The use of Shona as the medium of instruction in the first three grades of primary school in a Tonga-speaking community – teachers' and parents' perceptions
This article investigates teachers and parents' perceptions of the use of Shona as the medium of instruction in the first three grades of primary school in a Tonga-speaking community. Research was carried out at four schools and their surrounding communities in Nyaminyami District of Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe. While the principal method of data collection was the interview, observation and document analysis were also used to collect d…
FeesMustFall Protests in South Africa: A Critical Realist Analysis of Selected Newspaper Articles
Using Critical Realism (CR), this article looks at articles from selected South African newspapers which reported on the #FeesMustFall protests. The study established that, arising from the protests, was a culture characteried by tensions and distrust among stakeholders such as students, university management and the government. This, the article argues, was a result of how each of these stakeholdersperceived, and went on to exercise, their agenc…
The use of Shona as the medium of instruction in the first three grades of primary school in a Tonga-speaking community – teachers' and parents' perceptions
This article investigates teachers and parents' perceptions of the use of Shona as the medium of instruction in the first three grades of primary school in a Tonga-speaking community. Research was carried out at four schools and their surrounding communities in Nyaminyami District of Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe. While the principal method of data collection was the interview, observation and document analysis were also used to collect d…
The Zimbabwe crisis as captured in Shona metaphor
This article examines the metaphors that the Zimbabwean Shona speakers created to communicate various messages concerning the socio-economic and political crisis that has been occurring in their country since the year 2000. The data for this study came from two sources, namely, field notes from participant observations taken of naturally occurring interactions in the public and private spheres from August to December of 2008 and semi-structured i…
‘ Iwe ’ or ‘ imi ’? An analysis of terms of address used by police officers at Mbare Police Station
Using Fairclough's (1989) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Giles’ (1971) Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT), this article analyses the terms of address used by police officers at Mbare Police Station in Harare in conversational interaction either with suspects or with people visiting their relatives in custody at the police station. The data analysed in this research was collected through participant observation where the researchers p…
Going beyond the official domain in the search for the culture of employee learning: The case of junior support staff at a South African university
Based on HCT (human capital theory), employee learning and the culture associated with it in South Africa and globally have generally been researched from the perspective of the normative government or employer-initiated policies and programmes. Using Bernsteinâ€TMs (2000) theory of the pedagogic device, this paper suggests the existence of different domains of learning with respect to junior support staff at a South African university. The paper…
FeesMustFall Protests in South Africa: A Critical Realist Analysis of Selected Newspaper Articles
Using Critical Realism (CR), this article looks at articles from selected South African newspapers which reported on the #FeesMustFall protests. The study established that, arising from the protests, was a culture characteried by tensions and distrust among stakeholders such as students, university management and the government. This, the article argues, was a result of how each of these stakeholdersperceived, and went on to exercise, their agenc…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (2 works) · Education Systems and Policy (2 works)