Shanelle Van Der Berg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 223206 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shanelle Van Der Berg |
| PRENOMES | Shanelle |
| SOBRENOME | Van Der Berg |
| ASSINATURA | VAN DER BERG S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9634-2579 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Covid-19 disruptions and education in South Africa
This paper provides an overview of learning losses and altered schooling patterns in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021). Five major trends emerge from a review of the evidence. These include significant learning losses (38–118% of a year of learning), widened learning inequality, lowered grade repetition rates, increased secondary school enrolments and an unprecedented rise in candidates writing and passing the National Senior …
Aesthetic hedonism and its critics
This essay surveys the main objections to aesthetic hedonism, the view that aesthetic value is reducible to the value of aesthetic pleasure or experience. Hedonism is the dominant view of aesthetic value, but a spate of recent criticisms has drawn its accuracy into question. I introduce some distinctions crucial to the criticisms, before using the bulk of the essay to identify and review six major lines of argument that hedonism's critics have em…
The Motivational Structure of Appreciation
On a widely held view in aesthetics, appreciation requires disinterested attention. George Dickie famously criticized a version of this view championed by the aesthetic attitude theorists. I revisit his criticisms and extract an overlooked challenge for accounts that seek to characterize appreciative engagement in terms of distinctive motivation: at minimum, the motivational profile such accounts propose must make a difference to how appreciative…
Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment
In recent decades the philosophy of mind and related sciences have put growing stock in the thought that explaining cognition will require careful attention to how cognitive agents are situated in a body, a natural environment, a context of action, and increasingly also a social environment. The ‘situated cognition’ paradigm has now also started trickling its way into work on aesthetic cognition and, in the process, challenging the status quo. In…
A Capabilities Approach to the Adjudication of the Right to a Basic Education in South Africa
This article explores the contours of what a capabilities approach to the adjudication of the right to a basic education in South Africa entails. The right to a basic education fulfils an important role within South Africa’s project of transformative constitutionalism, which aims to transform society through processes grounded in law. In turn, transformative constitutionalism’s focus on the fundamental constitutional values of freedom, dignity an…
Strengthening access to information institutions to promote a culture of transparency
Corruption impacts egregiously on any and all of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights. However, a more positive relationship exists between corruption and human rights, in that the rights of access to information, freedom of expression and political rights can be utilised to help expose and deter corruption. The scourge of corruption facing South Africa requires a comprehensive anti-corruption strategy. A crucial precondition fo…
The Long Walk
The Need for a Capabilities-Based Standard of Review for the Adjudication of State Resource Allocation Decision
The realisation of socio-economic rights constitutes a critical prerequisite in the struggle to eradicate poverty and inequality in South Africa. State resource allocation lies at the heart of the realisation of socio-economic rights. Courts will often be called upon to adjudicate complex, polycentric prioritisation decisions taken by the state. An appropriate review paradigm can aid courts in performing this onerous task. Capabilities, as the su…
Meaningful engagement
This article focuses on a point of interaction between socio-economic rights and administrative justice, namely meaningful engagement. Meaningful engagement has developed into both a requirement for a reasonable government policy in socio-economic rights cases as well as a remedy where inadequate engagement occurred prior to litigation. It has been alternately praised as an innovative remedy and criticised as a further proceduralisation of socio-…
Towards defending a semantic theory of expression in art
Nelson Goodman’s attempt to analyse the expressiveness of artworks in semantic terms has been widely criticised. In this paper I try to show how the use of an adapted version of his concept of exemplification, as proposed by Mark Textor, can help to alleviate the worst problems with his theory of expression. More particularly I argue that the recognition of an intention, which is central to Textor’s account of exemplification, is also fundamental…
Measuring Child Poverty in South Africa
How effective are poor schools? Poverty and educational outcomes in South Africa
Using an Asset Index to Assess Trends in Poverty in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries
Devising social security interventions for maximum poverty impact
South Africa's social insurance system presently reaches the top half of the income distribution, i.e. most formally employed, but the magnitude of the benefits still leaves much of the labour force inadequately protected. Some of the poor are reached by social assistance measures, but such spending is already high for a developing country and fiscal constraints place limits on its expansion. Schemes for expanding social security thus need to be …
Redistribution through the budget
(2001). Redistribution through the budget: Public expenditure incidence in South Africa, 1993–1997. Social Dynamics: Vol. 27, Quantitative Studies of South African Society, pp. 140-164
Using an Asset Index to Assess Trends in Poverty in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries
Measuring Child Poverty in South Africa
Aesthetic hedonism and its critics
This essay surveys the main objections to aesthetic hedonism, the view that aesthetic value is reducible to the value of aesthetic pleasure or experience. Hedonism is the dominant view of aesthetic value, but a spate of recent criticisms has drawn its accuracy into question. I introduce some distinctions crucial to the criticisms, before using the bulk of the essay to identify and review six major lines of argument that hedonism's critics have em…
The Long Walk
Redistribution through the budget
(2001). Redistribution through the budget: Public expenditure incidence in South Africa, 1993–1997. Social Dynamics: Vol. 27, Quantitative Studies of South African Society, pp. 140-164
The Motivational Structure of Appreciation
On a widely held view in aesthetics, appreciation requires disinterested attention. George Dickie famously criticized a version of this view championed by the aesthetic attitude theorists. I revisit his criticisms and extract an overlooked challenge for accounts that seek to characterize appreciative engagement in terms of distinctive motivation: at minimum, the motivational profile such accounts propose must make a difference to how appreciative…
Strengthening access to information institutions to promote a culture of transparency
Corruption impacts egregiously on any and all of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights. However, a more positive relationship exists between corruption and human rights, in that the rights of access to information, freedom of expression and political rights can be utilised to help expose and deter corruption. The scourge of corruption facing South Africa requires a comprehensive anti-corruption strategy. A crucial precondition fo…
The Need for a Capabilities-Based Standard of Review for the Adjudication of State Resource Allocation Decision
The realisation of socio-economic rights constitutes a critical prerequisite in the struggle to eradicate poverty and inequality in South Africa. State resource allocation lies at the heart of the realisation of socio-economic rights. Courts will often be called upon to adjudicate complex, polycentric prioritisation decisions taken by the state. An appropriate review paradigm can aid courts in performing this onerous task. Capabilities, as the su…
Devising social security interventions for maximum poverty impact
South Africa's social insurance system presently reaches the top half of the income distribution, i.e. most formally employed, but the magnitude of the benefits still leaves much of the labour force inadequately protected. Some of the poor are reached by social assistance measures, but such spending is already high for a developing country and fiscal constraints place limits on its expansion. Schemes for expanding social security thus need to be …
Redistribution through the budget
(2001). Redistribution through the budget: Public expenditure incidence in South Africa, 1993–1997. Social Dynamics: Vol. 27, Quantitative Studies of South African Society, pp. 140-164
Devising social security interventions for maximum poverty impact
South Africa's social insurance system presently reaches the top half of the income distribution, i.e. most formally employed, but the magnitude of the benefits still leaves much of the labour force inadequately protected. Some of the poor are reached by social assistance measures, but such spending is already high for a developing country and fiscal constraints place limits on its expansion. Schemes for expanding social security thus need to be …
How effective are poor schools? Poverty and educational outcomes in South Africa
Using an Asset Index to Assess Trends in Poverty in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries
Measuring Child Poverty in South Africa
Towards defending a semantic theory of expression in art
Nelson Goodman’s attempt to analyse the expressiveness of artworks in semantic terms has been widely criticised. In this paper I try to show how the use of an adapted version of his concept of exemplification, as proposed by Mark Textor, can help to alleviate the worst problems with his theory of expression. More particularly I argue that the recognition of an intention, which is central to Textor’s account of exemplification, is also fundamental…
Meaningful engagement
This article focuses on a point of interaction between socio-economic rights and administrative justice, namely meaningful engagement. Meaningful engagement has developed into both a requirement for a reasonable government policy in socio-economic rights cases as well as a remedy where inadequate engagement occurred prior to litigation. It has been alternately praised as an innovative remedy and criticised as a further proceduralisation of socio-…
The Need for a Capabilities-Based Standard of Review for the Adjudication of State Resource Allocation Decision
The realisation of socio-economic rights constitutes a critical prerequisite in the struggle to eradicate poverty and inequality in South Africa. State resource allocation lies at the heart of the realisation of socio-economic rights. Courts will often be called upon to adjudicate complex, polycentric prioritisation decisions taken by the state. An appropriate review paradigm can aid courts in performing this onerous task. Capabilities, as the su…
A Capabilities Approach to the Adjudication of the Right to a Basic Education in South Africa
This article explores the contours of what a capabilities approach to the adjudication of the right to a basic education in South Africa entails. The right to a basic education fulfils an important role within South Africa’s project of transformative constitutionalism, which aims to transform society through processes grounded in law. In turn, transformative constitutionalism’s focus on the fundamental constitutional values of freedom, dignity an…
Strengthening access to information institutions to promote a culture of transparency
Corruption impacts egregiously on any and all of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights. However, a more positive relationship exists between corruption and human rights, in that the rights of access to information, freedom of expression and political rights can be utilised to help expose and deter corruption. The scourge of corruption facing South Africa requires a comprehensive anti-corruption strategy. A crucial precondition fo…
The Long Walk
Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment
In recent decades the philosophy of mind and related sciences have put growing stock in the thought that explaining cognition will require careful attention to how cognitive agents are situated in a body, a natural environment, a context of action, and increasingly also a social environment. The ‘situated cognition’ paradigm has now also started trickling its way into work on aesthetic cognition and, in the process, challenging the status quo. In…
The Motivational Structure of Appreciation
On a widely held view in aesthetics, appreciation requires disinterested attention. George Dickie famously criticized a version of this view championed by the aesthetic attitude theorists. I revisit his criticisms and extract an overlooked challenge for accounts that seek to characterize appreciative engagement in terms of distinctive motivation: at minimum, the motivational profile such accounts propose must make a difference to how appreciative…
Aesthetic hedonism and its critics
This essay surveys the main objections to aesthetic hedonism, the view that aesthetic value is reducible to the value of aesthetic pleasure or experience. Hedonism is the dominant view of aesthetic value, but a spate of recent criticisms has drawn its accuracy into question. I introduce some distinctions crucial to the criticisms, before using the bulk of the essay to identify and review six major lines of argument that hedonism's critics have em…
Covid-19 disruptions and education in South Africa
This paper provides an overview of learning losses and altered schooling patterns in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021). Five major trends emerge from a review of the evidence. These include significant learning losses (38–118% of a year of learning), widened learning inequality, lowered grade repetition rates, increased secondary school enrolments and an unprecedented rise in candidates writing and passing the National Senior …
Economics (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Economic growth (7 obras) · Development economics (6 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Demographic economics (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Legal Issues in South Africa (5 obras) · Poverty (5 obras)