J L Van Der Walt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4150247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J L Van Der Walt |
| GIVEN NAMES | J L |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Walt |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER WALT J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9243-5973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
De deugdzame onderzoeker: Een Christelijk deugdethisch perspectief op wetenschappelijke integriteit
In dit artikel wordt onderzocht hoe vier deugden – nieuwsgierigheid, bescheidenheid, dienstbaarheid en zorgvuldigheid – onderzoekers kunnen helpen om weerstand te bieden aan de verleidingen en risico’s van de moderne wetenschapspraktijk. Door toenemende concurrentie, prestatiedruk en institutionele verwachtingen komen onderzoekers onder sterke druk te staan, wat kan leiden tot twijfelachtige of zelfs frauduleuze onderzoekspraktijken. Regels en pr…
ʼn Reformatoriese perspektief op die ouer se rentmeesterskaplike roeping tot die handhawing van ordelike kinderdissipline in Suid-Afrika
Kinders is ‘n geskenk van God wat aan ouers toevertrou is om as die primêre opvoeders en bewaarders van die kind op te tree. Verskeie vorme van oortredings en wangedrag is egter hedendaags aan die toeneem onder kinders. Dit is ‘n Goddelike opdrag en verantwoordelikheid van ouers om hul kinders te dissiplineer, maar daar is tans heelwat faktore en omstandighede wat ouers verhoed om hul rentmeesterskapsplig en verantwoordelikheid teenoor hul kinder…
Shaping Christian citizenship in diverse societies through family, church, and school educators
The study examined the role of family, school and church educators towards cultivating Christian citizenship in children up to the age of 16 amid increasing societal pluralism. It was undertaken in response to a global moral crisis marked by social fragmentation, secularisation, and diminished civic participation. Within this context, the article explored how Christian moral formation, grounded in divine command ethics and virtue ethics, could co…
N Reformatoriese Benadering tot die Opvoedingsfilosofie in Suid-Afrika: Uitdagings vir nou en vir die Toekoms
Hierdie artikel beliggaam die outeur se perspektief op die ontwikkeling van die reformatoriese benadering tot die opvoedingsfilosofie in Suid-Afrika, vanaf die middel van die 19de eeu tot en met 2024. Dit begin deur die grondleggende werk van baanbrekersfigure soos professore J Chr Coetzee en HJJ Bingle uit te lig. Die oorsig volg dan die gestadigde agteruitgang van hierdie benadering vanaf ongeveer 1969, toe Suid-Afrikaanse opvoedingsfilosowe hu…
Citizenship Education in a World of Identity in Flux, Intercultural Conflict, and the Need for Belonging
The human need for belonging and identity (stemming from the need for belonging) is strong. This article begins by discussing these needs, drawing on the theories of Abraham Maslow and Erik Erikson. Forceful societal trends in the early twenty-first-century world have been creating a new societal context that tends to disrupt historical, relatively simple trajectories of identity formation. These trends are then subsumed under two megatrends that…
Global Tensions and Articulations in the Twenty-First Century Politics, and the Need to Reconceptualise Citizenship Education
It seems, three decades into the twenty-first century, as if the interrelated trends of deglobalization, regressive nationalism, populism, and identity politics are gaining traction worldwide, thereby embodying inclinations that seem to be the opposite of those in preceding decades. Citizenship Education, both as a broad academic discipline and as a school subject, appears to be a suitable vehicle for addressing and even countering these new glob…
Three perspectives on the notion of ‘the best interests of the child’
The research reported in this article was centred on three research questions about the issue of ensuring that, in education and schooling, the principle of the best interests of the child is respected. The inauspicious treatment of children through the ages led the international community in the form of the United Nations to adopt its Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1989. The series of developments culminating in the adoption of t…
N Reformatoriese kindbeskouing: In watter mate kom dit tot sy reg in die internasionale en Suid-Afrikaanse onderwysregsbestel
ʼn Opvoedingsfilosoof en ʼn onderwysregskundige span kragte saam om vas te stel tot welke mate die kernaspekte van ʼn Reformatoriese kindbeskouing tot hul reg in die internasionale en Suid-Afrikaanse onderwysregsbestel kom. Die eerste deel van die artikel verskaf ʼn filosofies-Reformatoriese kinderantropologie as prinsipiële grondslag, tesame met rigtingwysers vir die daaropvolgende (onderwys)regtelike ondersoek. Die ondersoek bring aan die lig d…
Forming Learners Through Citizenship Education to Recognise and Counter Lawlessness in their Surroundings
Due to various conditions, countries such as Venezuela, Nigeria, and South Africa suffer from lawlessness (disregard of norms and rules of society) today, threatening their social fabric. It is contended on the basis of the situation in South Africa that citizenship education is arguably a suitable vehicle (in combination with, for instance, religion education, moral education, and forgiveness education) for offering tolerance, forgiveness, hospi…
Godsdienst in het onderwijs in Zuid-Afrika en Nederland: Een vergelijkende studie
Religion in education in South Africa and the Netherlands: A comparative study. The aim of this article is the reconstruction and comparison of the historical evolution of the place and role of religion in education in South Africa and in the Netherlands. The article commences with an overview of the historical evolution of the place and role of religion in education, up to the present, and a discussion of the dissatisfaction and objections which…
Global citizenship education in a space of “flow”
Die rapportering van beserings in Meganiese Tegnologie-skoolwerkswinkels met die oog op die skep van `n geborgenheidsruimte vir die leerders
Section 24 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (85 of 1993) stipulates that all injuries in workshops must be reported. Technology teachers also have a legal duty under common law to report such injuries. Meticulous record keeping of accidents is one of the strategies that can be employed to prevent accidents, thereby creating a safe working environment. This article reports on the findings of an investigation using mixed research methods a…
Onderwijs in Nederland in coronatijd: Een voorlopige reflectie
Education in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic: A preliminary reflection. The coronavirus pandemic prompted national governments around the world to take drastic measures. Citizens were invariably informed that these measures were unavoidable. However, the question is whether the measures taken by government can be ethically justified. The purpose of this article is to present the upshot of our reflections on such government measures i…
Behartiging van het onderwijs in coronatijd in Nederland en Zuid-Afrika: Een vergelijkende studie
Managing education during the pandemic in the Netherlands and South Africa: A comparative study. Optimism has reigned supreme for a long time regarding the potential of education (schooling) to address the many societal ailments that humankind has had to deal with. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 shifted all such aspirations to the back-burner. Now, after just more than a year after the initial outbreak of the pandemic, the qu…
The possible impact of Reformed theology on education as a science, with special reference to the situation in South Africa (1940–)
The research reported in this article focused on the possibility of reformational theology having an impact on Education as a scientific discipline. Based on an interpretivist–constructivist theoretical approach and with the aid of a hermeneutic that differentiates between three manifestations of theology (Theology as a discipline in its own right, philosophic theology as a branch of Philosophy and personal theology as part of a personal world an…
Indiscipline in South African Schools: The Parental / Community Perspective
South Africa is struggling with the problem of indiscipline in schools. The issue of indiscipline in South African schools has been subjected to research for almost two decades. This research has revealed that learner (in)discipline in a school is related to six sets of factors, namely learner-related factors, teacher-related factors, school-related factors, education system-related factors, parent-related factors, and society-related factors. Al…
A critical look at a technologically sophisticated initiative to address the problem of unequal educational opportunities in South Africa
A survey of the literature in connection with the current state of education in South Africa reveals a consensus that the system has remained unfair to a large section of the population, even now-two decades into the postapartheid dispensation. The education system has now developed two distinct tiers: one for the historically privileged and one for historically disadvantaged learners, the latter by far the larger of the two. In addition to measu…
The policy-implementation-results linkage for education development and aid effectiveness in the Education 2030 era
Education 2030, the new global agenda for educational development, emphasises inclusion and learning outcomes. The top-down programme-based approach, a mainstay of international aid, has up to now failed in helping developing countries to meet these objectives because it tends to overlook where the link is broken between policy implementation from the ‘top’ and results ‘on the ground’. Conversely, those on the ground tackling the learning more di…
A Generic Model of “the” Education System for the Purposes of Making Critical Comparisons and Policy / Generički model ,,obrazovnog sustava“ za potrebe kritičke usporedbe i kreiranje politike
The education system per se, despite its central position in the field of study proclaimed by the scholarly community of Comparative and International Education, has never taken a central stage/role in Comparative and International Education scholarly enquiry. Through the various stages of its history, Comparative and International Education research has either focused on the societal-contextual forces (geography, demography, social system, econo…
The Possible Broadening of the Conceptualisation of Philosophy as a Shaping Factor of Education Systems / Mogućnost proširenja konceptualizacije filozofije kao čimbenika koji oblikuje obrazovni sustav
This article defends the claim that the philosophical aspect has been seriously underrated in the scheme of the conceptualization of contextual societal forces shaping education systems. The rise of neo-Marxist paradigms since the 1970s has resulted in a disproportionate emphasis on social and economic systems as factors shaping national education systems. However, empirical research has recently rendered evidence regarding how philosophical fram…
Education Reform in Southern Africa since the 1960s: What Progress Has Been Made
The investigation reported in this paper centred on the socially relevant question of whether a number of countries in Southern Africa, particularly their education systems, had not only succeeded to shrug off their pre-independent past and heritage, but also whether they have made significant strides in terms of the education reform that form part of their broad socio-political restructuring. After having stipulated a number of input, throughput…
The Road to Religious Tolerance in Education in South Africa (and Elsewhere): A Possible ‘Martian Perspective’
Combining Dennett's notion of detached curiosity with Alexander's notion of transcendental pragmatism, we propose in this paper, from a ‘Martian perspective’, that religious understanding and tolerance in education may be pursued from at least two different angles: (a) via the spiritual substrata of religions or via confessional pluralism or (b) via a combination of both. On the basis of a hermeneutic reconstructive interpretation of (a), we subs…
The management of diversity in schools — A balancing act
Empowering Academics the Viskerian Way
Academics and/or scholars increasingly feel that their academic voice (combined or individual) has been squelched by the demands of performativity in its various guises, and resultantly, that they have been caught up in a process of steady disempowerment. Rather, it should be their right to be free to use their positions in the pursuit of scholarship as their conscience and their expert knowledge of their subject dictate. Academics should be free…
The divine dreams of a sample of South African children: The gateway to their spirituality
As part of a research project on religion, spirituality and education, the authors attended to the role that children's divine dreams could play in religious education (RE). They contend that such dreams can indeed be used by RE teachers as the gateway to understanding the spirituality of their learners. They defend their claim by firstly developing a conceptual‐theoretical framework with respect to religion, spirituality and children's divine dr…
Multicultural Concerns of Educators in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
In the new democratic South Africa that emerged after 1994, educators are having to cope with the demands of multicultural situations that are developing in the former racially and ethnically segregated schools, and in the process striving for the equal treatment of the learners, the removal of discrimination and prejudice, the inculcation of respect, and an appreciation for diversity. In an empirical study to determine the extent to which educat…
The policy-implementation-results linkage for education development and aid effectiveness in the Education 2030 era
Education 2030, the new global agenda for educational development, emphasises inclusion and learning outcomes. The top-down programme-based approach, a mainstay of international aid, has up to now failed in helping developing countries to meet these objectives because it tends to overlook where the link is broken between policy implementation from the ‘top’ and results ‘on the ground’. Conversely, those on the ground tackling the learning more di…
The management of diversity in schools — A balancing act
Creating a Future for History within South Africa's Curriculum 2005
The new democratic dispensation in South Africa since 1994 has necessitated the development of a new approach to history as a school subject in the framework of the recently inaugurated Curriculum 2005. The new education authorities regard history as one of the keys to a new social and political dispensation, especially in view of its abuse during the apartheid era. This article briefly covers history curriculum development during the pre-1994 ap…
N Beginselgrondslag vir gesag, vryheid, orde en dissipline in die onderwysopset van die vroeg-21ste eeu
A principial foundation for authority, freedom, order and discipline in the educational context of the early 21st century This volume of Koers contains a number of articles dealing with various aspects of authority, freedom, order and discipline in the educational context. The discussion in this, the introductory article, is based on the question whether postmodern conditions have brought about any changes to our views and ideas about these pheno…
Multicultural Concerns of Educators in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
In the new democratic South Africa that emerged after 1994, educators are having to cope with the demands of multicultural situations that are developing in the former racially and ethnically segregated schools, and in the process striving for the equal treatment of the learners, the removal of discrimination and prejudice, the inculcation of respect, and an appreciation for diversity. In an empirical study to determine the extent to which educat…
Coping with Life's Challenges in the 21 st Century: A Three-Pronged Strategy
The demands and challenges of life in the 21st century are such that an ‘academic-rationalistic’ view of intelligence needs to be replaced with a more holistic view of intelligence as a multi-faceted construct. However, merely replacing the traditional view with the relatively new one that presents intelligence as multi-faceted, has little pedagogical significance in itself. The potential inherent in the various facets of intelligence has to be e…
A Group of Sexually Abused Adolescents' Perceptions of their Future Life-Roles: An Exploratory Study
Sexual abuse of adolescents can have detrimental effects on their perceptions of their different future life-roles. We investigated such perceptions of students with a history of sexual abuse (n=163) as well as typically developing others (n=237). Participants completed the Life-role Inventory of the then called Human Sciences Research Council (Langley, 1990). Between-group comparisons were carried out. Adolescents with a history of sexual abuse …
The divine dreams of a sample of South African children: The gateway to their spirituality
As part of a research project on religion, spirituality and education, the authors attended to the role that children's divine dreams could play in religious education (RE). They contend that such dreams can indeed be used by RE teachers as the gateway to understanding the spirituality of their learners. They defend their claim by firstly developing a conceptual‐theoretical framework with respect to religion, spirituality and children's divine dr…
A group of educators' stance on the implementation of South Africa's further education and training curriculum
The Road to Religious Tolerance in Education in South Africa (and Elsewhere): A Possible ‘Martian Perspective’
Combining Dennett's notion of detached curiosity with Alexander's notion of transcendental pragmatism, we propose in this paper, from a ‘Martian perspective’, that religious understanding and tolerance in education may be pursued from at least two different angles: (a) via the spiritual substrata of religions or via confessional pluralism or (b) via a combination of both. On the basis of a hermeneutic reconstructive interpretation of (a), we subs…
The management of diversity in schools — A balancing act
Empowering Academics the Viskerian Way
Academics and/or scholars increasingly feel that their academic voice (combined or individual) has been squelched by the demands of performativity in its various guises, and resultantly, that they have been caught up in a process of steady disempowerment. Rather, it should be their right to be free to use their positions in the pursuit of scholarship as their conscience and their expert knowledge of their subject dictate. Academics should be free…
The Possible Broadening of the Conceptualisation of Philosophy as a Shaping Factor of Education Systems / Mogućnost proširenja konceptualizacije filozofije kao čimbenika koji oblikuje obrazovni sustav
This article defends the claim that the philosophical aspect has been seriously underrated in the scheme of the conceptualization of contextual societal forces shaping education systems. The rise of neo-Marxist paradigms since the 1970s has resulted in a disproportionate emphasis on social and economic systems as factors shaping national education systems. However, empirical research has recently rendered evidence regarding how philosophical fram…
Education Reform in Southern Africa since the 1960s: What Progress Has Been Made
The investigation reported in this paper centred on the socially relevant question of whether a number of countries in Southern Africa, particularly their education systems, had not only succeeded to shrug off their pre-independent past and heritage, but also whether they have made significant strides in terms of the education reform that form part of their broad socio-political restructuring. After having stipulated a number of input, throughput…
A Generic Model of “the” Education System for the Purposes of Making Critical Comparisons and Policy / Generički model ,,obrazovnog sustava“ za potrebe kritičke usporedbe i kreiranje politike
The education system per se, despite its central position in the field of study proclaimed by the scholarly community of Comparative and International Education, has never taken a central stage/role in Comparative and International Education scholarly enquiry. Through the various stages of its history, Comparative and International Education research has either focused on the societal-contextual forces (geography, demography, social system, econo…
The policy-implementation-results linkage for education development and aid effectiveness in the Education 2030 era
Education 2030, the new global agenda for educational development, emphasises inclusion and learning outcomes. The top-down programme-based approach, a mainstay of international aid, has up to now failed in helping developing countries to meet these objectives because it tends to overlook where the link is broken between policy implementation from the ‘top’ and results ‘on the ground’. Conversely, those on the ground tackling the learning more di…
A critical look at a technologically sophisticated initiative to address the problem of unequal educational opportunities in South Africa
A survey of the literature in connection with the current state of education in South Africa reveals a consensus that the system has remained unfair to a large section of the population, even now-two decades into the postapartheid dispensation. The education system has now developed two distinct tiers: one for the historically privileged and one for historically disadvantaged learners, the latter by far the larger of the two. In addition to measu…
The possible impact of Reformed theology on education as a science, with special reference to the situation in South Africa (1940–)
The research reported in this article focused on the possibility of reformational theology having an impact on Education as a scientific discipline. Based on an interpretivist–constructivist theoretical approach and with the aid of a hermeneutic that differentiates between three manifestations of theology (Theology as a discipline in its own right, philosophic theology as a branch of Philosophy and personal theology as part of a personal world an…
Indiscipline in South African Schools: The Parental / Community Perspective
South Africa is struggling with the problem of indiscipline in schools. The issue of indiscipline in South African schools has been subjected to research for almost two decades. This research has revealed that learner (in)discipline in a school is related to six sets of factors, namely learner-related factors, teacher-related factors, school-related factors, education system-related factors, parent-related factors, and society-related factors. Al…
Onderwijs in Nederland in coronatijd: Een voorlopige reflectie
Education in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic: A preliminary reflection. The coronavirus pandemic prompted national governments around the world to take drastic measures. Citizens were invariably informed that these measures were unavoidable. However, the question is whether the measures taken by government can be ethically justified. The purpose of this article is to present the upshot of our reflections on such government measures i…
Behartiging van het onderwijs in coronatijd in Nederland en Zuid-Afrika: Een vergelijkende studie
Managing education during the pandemic in the Netherlands and South Africa: A comparative study. Optimism has reigned supreme for a long time regarding the potential of education (schooling) to address the many societal ailments that humankind has had to deal with. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 shifted all such aspirations to the back-burner. Now, after just more than a year after the initial outbreak of the pandemic, the qu…
Godsdienst in het onderwijs in Zuid-Afrika en Nederland: Een vergelijkende studie
Religion in education in South Africa and the Netherlands: A comparative study. The aim of this article is the reconstruction and comparison of the historical evolution of the place and role of religion in education in South Africa and in the Netherlands. The article commences with an overview of the historical evolution of the place and role of religion in education, up to the present, and a discussion of the dissatisfaction and objections which…
Global citizenship education in a space of “flow”
Die rapportering van beserings in Meganiese Tegnologie-skoolwerkswinkels met die oog op die skep van `n geborgenheidsruimte vir die leerders
Section 24 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (85 of 1993) stipulates that all injuries in workshops must be reported. Technology teachers also have a legal duty under common law to report such injuries. Meticulous record keeping of accidents is one of the strategies that can be employed to prevent accidents, thereby creating a safe working environment. This article reports on the findings of an investigation using mixed research methods a…
Three perspectives on the notion of ‘the best interests of the child’
The research reported in this article was centred on three research questions about the issue of ensuring that, in education and schooling, the principle of the best interests of the child is respected. The inauspicious treatment of children through the ages led the international community in the form of the United Nations to adopt its Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1989. The series of developments culminating in the adoption of t…
N Reformatoriese kindbeskouing: In watter mate kom dit tot sy reg in die internasionale en Suid-Afrikaanse onderwysregsbestel
ʼn Opvoedingsfilosoof en ʼn onderwysregskundige span kragte saam om vas te stel tot welke mate die kernaspekte van ʼn Reformatoriese kindbeskouing tot hul reg in die internasionale en Suid-Afrikaanse onderwysregsbestel kom. Die eerste deel van die artikel verskaf ʼn filosofies-Reformatoriese kinderantropologie as prinsipiële grondslag, tesame met rigtingwysers vir die daaropvolgende (onderwys)regtelike ondersoek. Die ondersoek bring aan die lig d…
Forming Learners Through Citizenship Education to Recognise and Counter Lawlessness in their Surroundings
Due to various conditions, countries such as Venezuela, Nigeria, and South Africa suffer from lawlessness (disregard of norms and rules of society) today, threatening their social fabric. It is contended on the basis of the situation in South Africa that citizenship education is arguably a suitable vehicle (in combination with, for instance, religion education, moral education, and forgiveness education) for offering tolerance, forgiveness, hospi…
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