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{"title":"‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in Non-Dualistic Vedānta: A Moral Interpretation","authors":"S. Raina","doi":"10.19108/KOERS.84.1.2402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.84.1.2402","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the metaphysical and ethical approaches appropriate to studying the image of the self and other in Non-Dualistic Vedānta (hereafter NDV). NDV examines the nature of the empirical division of the self and the other, referred to by the terms ‘I’ and ‘you’ - asmad and yuṣmad, respectively. Behind the mundane expressions of these terms, Śaṅkara identifies ‘superimposition’ as a metaphysical precursor, which generates a cognitive error in all such expressions using personal pronouns and the use of predicates thereupon. The prime intent of the paper is to demonstrate vis-à-vis the metaphysical framework of NDV that the distinction of self and other is founded upon ignorance. If this ignorance is replaced by true knowledge, the entire problems pertaining to ‘self’ and ‘other’ will see the development of a different kind of understanding, exposing the underlying unity of self and other, which generates a different attitude. Taking recourse to the NDV’s exposition of the issue, a moral interpretation of the underlying unity of self and other is also intended.","PeriodicalId":38057,"journal":{"name":"Koers","volume":"141 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73973079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Idea of a “For-Profit” Private Christian University in South Africa","authors":"Morné Diederiks","doi":"10.19108/koers.84.1.2449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19108/koers.84.1.2449","url":null,"abstract":"The one-sided focus of Christian higher education in South Africa on the field of theology and the lack of integrating faith and learning in other subjects emphasizes the need for a Christian university in South Africa. The question addressed in this article is whether a Christian university can also be for-profit, considering the fact that all Christian private higher education institutions in South Africa are non-profit. There are numerous criticisms against for-profit higher education institutions. The greatest of these are that for-profit private higher education institutions miss the purpose of what it means to be a university and that profitable higher education institutions exploit students. The church also has numerous criticisms of the profit motive, but from the Bible it is clear that there are two lines of thought regarding profit. The one is that profit is dangerous and that it easily becomes an idol; the other is that people are called to be profitable. This article concludes that there is room for a for-profit Christian higher education institution in South Africa. This for-profit Christian higher education institution should be imagined in terms of its understanding of profit regarding its mission, students, faculty and governance.","PeriodicalId":38057,"journal":{"name":"Koers","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89897808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"FILOSOFIE OP POTCHEFSTROOM DIE AFGELOPE EEU (1917-2017) Deel 4: Op die tweesprong?","authors":"B. D. Walt","doi":"10.19108/KOERS.84.1.2454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.84.1.2454","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT PHILOSOPHY AT POTCHEFSTROOM THE PAST CENTURY (1917-2017). Part 4: At the cross-roads? Three previous articles in this journal reviewed the history of philosophy at Potchefstroom from the beginning of the previous century up to about 2009. In this and the next contribution the writer, acting again as a fly on the wall, provides a peephole on the current situation at the end of 2017. As the subtitle suggests, it seems that Christian philosophy at Potchefstroom has arrived at the cross-roads. Different reasons, like the on-going secularisation of the North-West University have contributed to the situation. A cause for differences within the School of Philosophy may also be that lecturers from outside the tradition of a Reformational approach are critical about the traditional Christian philosophical approach of more than a century. Since his viewpoint is one clear example of such an alternative approach the academic training, publications and viewpoint of Prof Anné H. Verhoef will be investigated in detail in a last (fifth) contribution. The present article about the main contours of a Reformational approach in philosophy serves as a necessary background from which the philosophical theology of Verhoef will be analysed and evaluated in the conclusion of this series. SAMEVATTING In drie vorige artikels in hierdie tydskrif is die geskiedenis van filosofie op Potchefstroom vanaf die begin van die vorige eeu tot ongeveer 2009 behandel. In hierdie en die volgende bydrae bied die skrywer, weer ʼn vlieg teen die muur, ʼn volgende kyk op die huidige situasie teen die einde van 2017. Soos die subtitel van die huidige artikel aandui, wil dit voorkom asof die Potchefstroomse Christelike filosofie tans voor ʼn tweesprong te staan gekom het. Verskillende redes kan daarvoor aangevoer word, soos die voortgaande sekularisering van die Noordwes-Universiteit (NWU). ʼn Oorsaak vir die verskille binne die Skool vir Filosofie kan moontlik ook daarin gesoek word dat dosente van buite die tradisionele Christelik-Reformatoriese tradisie bygekom het en die denkgemeenskap van meer as ʼn eeu nie deel nie. As een voorbeeld van so ʼn alternatiewe visie sal die akademiese agtergrond, publikasies en standpunt van prof. A.H. Verhoef in ʼn laaste (vyfde) bydrae in besonderhede nagegaan word. Die huidige artikel oor die hoofkontoere van ʼn Reformatoriese wysbegeerte dien as agtergrond waarteen die filosofiese teologie van Verhoef in die slotartikel analiseer en evalueer sal word.","PeriodicalId":38057,"journal":{"name":"Koers","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77582792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Validation and the further disclosures of language test design","authors":"A. Weideman","doi":"10.19108/KOERS.84.1.2452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.84.1.2452","url":null,"abstract":"The subjective validation of language tests and their objective validity remain contested. The debate is clouded by a lack of conceptual clarity: every measure of the adequacy of a test is either subsumed under validity, or other test features are promoted to prime consideration. An alternative is to recognize the technical dimension of experience as the leading function of applied linguistic artefacts such as language tests. In its coherence with other dimensions of reality, the technical aspect generates echoes of those others. These references to other facets are the basis of technically stamped, applied linguistic concepts. While a previous analysis referred to a number of foundational concepts in test design, this paper examines the traces of the lingual, social, economic and ethical aspects within the technical. These are all regulative technical ideas, acting as lodestars in the design of language tests. They are disclosures of the technical meaning of test design. Moreover, they allow applied linguistics to conceive of them as design principles, which must be given concrete shape and form in the actual development of language tests. Acknowledging this state of affairs enables the applied linguist to develop a robust and non-reductionist theory of applied linguistics. Opsomming Daar is geen eenstemmigheid oor wat die subjektiewe validering van taaltoetse asook hul objektiewe geldigheid behels nie. Die debat word vertroebel deur 'n gebrek aan konseptuele duidelikheid: elke maatstaf vir die effektiwiteit van 'n toets word óf ingetrek onder geldigheid, óf verhef tot belangrikste oorweging. Die alternatief is om die tegniese dimensie van ons ervaring as die leidende funksie van toegepaste taalkundige artefakte te erken. In sy samehang met ander dimensies genereer die tegniese aspek analogieë van die ander. Daardie verwysings na ander aspekte vorm die basis van tegnies gekwalifiseerde toegepaste taalkundige begrippe. Waar 'n vorige analise na 'n aantal funderende begrippe verwys het, ondersoek hierdie bydrae die linguale, sosiale, ekonomiese en etiese spore in die tegniese aspek. Hierdie analogieë is almal regulatiewe tegniese idees, wat optree as rigtingwysers in die ontwerp van taaltoetse. Hulle is ook ontsluitings van die tegniese betekenis van toetsontwerp. Terselfdertyd maak hulle dit vir die toegepaste taalkunde moontlik om hulle as ontwerpbeginsels te beskou wat in die ontwikkeling van taaltoetse konkrete beslag en vorm te kry. Om hierdie stand van sake ernstig op te neem is vir die toepgepaste taalkundige die beginpunt van die ontwikkeling van 'n robuuste en nie-reduksionistiese teorie van die toegepaste taalkunde.","PeriodicalId":38057,"journal":{"name":"Koers","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85048352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Degrees of adequacy: the disclosure of levels of validity in language assessment","authors":"A. Weideman","doi":"10.19108/KOERS.84.1.2451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.84.1.2451","url":null,"abstract":"The conceptualization of validity remains contested in educational assessment in general, and in language assessment in particular. Validation and validity are the subjective and objective sides of the process of building a systematic argument for the adequacy of tests. Currently, validation is conceptualized as being dependent on the validity of the interpretation of the results of the instrument. Yet when a test yields a score, that is a first indication of its adequacy, or validity. As the history of validity theory shows, adequacy is further disclosed with reference to the theoretical defensibility (“construct validity”) of a language test. That analogical analytical disclosure of validity is taken further in the lingually analogical question of whether the test scores are interpretable, and meaningful. This paper will illustrate these various degrees of adequacy with reference mainly to empirical analyses of a number of tests of academic literacy, from pre-school level tests of emergent literacy, to measurements of postgraduate students’ ability to cope with the language demands of their study. Further disclosures of language test design will be dealt with more comprehensively in a follow-up paper. Both papers present an analysis of how such disclosures relate to a theoretical framework for responsible test design. Grade van toereikendheid: die ontsluiting van vlakke van geldigheid in taaltoetsing Opsomming Om geldigheid te konsepsualiseer bly 'n betwiste saak in opvoedkundige meting in die algemeen, en in taalassessering in die besonder. Geldigmaking en geldigheid kan respektiewelik opgevat word as die subjektiewe en objektiewe kante van die sistematiese argument wat gevoer kan word vir die toereikendheid van toetse. Tans word geldigmaking gekonseptualiseer as afhanklik van die interpretasie van die resultate van die instrument. Tog is dit so dat wanneer 'n toets 'n punt oplewer, dit 'n eerste aanduiding is van sy geldigheid. Soos die geskiedenis van geldigheidsteorie ook aantoon, word daardie toereikendheid verder ontsluit met verwysing na die teoretiese regverdiging (konstrukgeldigheid) van 'n taaltoets. Daardie logies-analitiese ontsluiting van geldigheid word verder geneem in die analogies linguale vraag: Is die toetsresultate interpreteerbaar en betekenisvol? Hierdie artikel illustreer hierdie verskillende grade van geldigheid met verwysing na empiriese analises van toetse van akademiese geletterdheid, vanaf voorskoolse toetse van ontluikende geletterdheid tot by metings van nagraadse studente se vermoë om die eise van akademiese diskoers te hanteer. Verdere ontsluitings van taaltoetsontwerp word vollediger hanteer in 'n opvolgartikel. Beide artikels bied 'n analise van hoe sulke ontsluitings verband hou met 'n teoretiese raamwerk vir verantwoordelike toetsontwerp.","PeriodicalId":38057,"journal":{"name":"Koers","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74402247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Religion and Reason in the Grasp of Basic Models","authors":"J. Klapwijk","doi":"10.19108/KOERS.82.1.2288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.82.1.2288","url":null,"abstract":"How do religious faith and human understanding relate to each other? On this question there is no consensus, nor has there ever been in the past. The history of Western philosophy confronts us with a complex diversity of views that grew into more or less indisputable standard positions. These positions are not the strict result of theoretical reflection. Their acceptance is largely based on pre-theoretical considerations, the self-evidence of a spiritual intuition or religious motivation.\u0000\u0000The different views of the realtionship of religion and reason can be grouped into a limited number of basic models or motifs. This essay will discuss seven of them as they arose in the Christian tradition. I will name them as follows: identification, conflict, subordination, complementarity, foundation, authenticity and transformation.\u0000\u0000For the sake of brevity the text focuses on the origins and first manifestations of these models. But we will add again and again fragments of further developments to make clear how resilient these models are. They continue to assert themselves even in new periods of time. Their diversity keeps on challenging us, up to the present day, to reconsider the self-evidence of our own position in the debate on religion and reason.","PeriodicalId":38057,"journal":{"name":"Koers","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78900663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learner-centredness: A multiple intelligence approach to reveal individual learner preferences for curriculum content in Foundation Phase","authors":"C. Smith","doi":"10.19108/KOERS.83.1.2218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.83.1.2218","url":null,"abstract":"Gardner’s multiple intelligences can directly link with the subjects or the curriculum taught in school. The focus in this paper is on Foundation Phase learners and their personal favourite subjects. In allowing learners to choose what they find the most interesting, the most popular subject is identified and new perspectives are provided on which areas should need attention. The method involved is a quantitative approach incorporating statistics obtained through a Likert scale. 105 participants were involved and interesting views surfaced. Literacy is no longer at the top of the list of most popular subjects, a concern for teachers who aim at teaching learners to read and write as Art is found to be the most popular subject. Fusing Art and other forms of intelligences can be employed as a strategy to teach literacy and popularise it.\u0000\u0000Opsomming\u0000Gardner se onderskeid tussen multi-intelligensie tipes can direk in verband gebring word met die vakke wat op skool onderrig word. Die fokus in hierdie navorsingsstuk is op die Grondslagfase en die leerders se persoonlike gunsteling vakke. Nuwe lig op populêre vakke word gewerp deur leerlinge die geleentheid te bied om hulle persoonlike voorkeur uit te oefen. Hierdie metode stel navorsers instaat om vas te stel wat om te doen om die probleem van swak geletterdheid aan te spreek. ‘n Kwantitatiewe metode is gevolg om leerderkeuses te identifseer en resultate is in present weergegee. 105 deelnemers was betrokke en interessante perspektiewe het aan die lig gekom. Gelletterdheid is nie die gewildste vak nie en Kuns is een van die Grondslagfase leerders se voorkeure. Indien kuns dan ingespan kan word in ander vakke as deel van integrasie kan dit moontlik die leer in daardie vakke bevorder.","PeriodicalId":38057,"journal":{"name":"Koers","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81976093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘n Kykie na kopstukke. Filosofie op Potchefstroom die afgelope eeu (1917-2017). Deel 3: die uitbouers","authors":"Barend van der Walt","doi":"10.19108/koers.83.1.2370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19108/koers.83.1.2370","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000\u0000A peep-hole on big guns; philosophy at Potchefstroom during the past century (1917-2017). Part 3: the elaborators\u0000\u0000This article is the third in a series of four which outlines the history of philosophy at Potchefstroom during more than a century. Firstly, two main professors, F. Postma and S.O. Los, who taught philosophy up to about 1917 received attention (cf. Van der Walt, 2017). After this first period of reconnoitring followed a second of systematisation by Proff H.G. Stoker and J.A. Taljaard (cf. Van der Walt, 2018).\u0000\u0000The present contribution covers the third period, viz. that of the further elaboration in various directions of a Christian-reformational philosophy. At the hand of their academic backgrounds, personal interests and publications the following seven heads of the Department of Philosophy (later School of Philosophy) march past: Proff B. Duvenage, N.T. van der Merwe, Pieter G.W. du Plessis, M. Elaine Botha, Johannes J. Venter, followed by an interim without a departmental head, Pieter J.J.S. Potgieter and Michael F. Heyns.\u0000\u0000This article is aligned with the framework of an extensive evaluative conclusion about the history of philosophy at Potchefstroom during more than a century as reviewed in this series. The fourth and final contribution will discuss the growing tension in the School has, by 2016, arrived at the cross-roads.\u0000\u0000SAMEVATTING\u0000\u0000In ʼn reeks van vier artikels is hierdie die derde wat die hooflyne van die geskiedenis van filosofie op Potchefstroom oor meer as ʼn eeu beskrywe (vgl. Van der Walt, 2017 en 2018 vir die vorige twee). Nadat op ʼn tydperk van filosofiese verkenning (tot ongeveer 1917) gelet is, is twee sisteembouers uit die tweede periode bekyk. Nou word nog sewe profiele van hulle opvolgers ten tonele gevoer, wat as verteenwoordigers van ʼn derde periode van die uitbouing van ʼn Christelike filosofie beskou kan word.\u0000\u0000Die volgende figure passeer die revue: (1) Benoon Duvenage (departementshoof vanaf 1974 tot 1980); (2) Nicolaas Theodor van der Merwe (vanaf ongeveer 1957 dosent en vanaf 1980 tot 1986 departementshoof); (3) Pieter G.W. du Plessis (dosent vanaf 1957 tot 1965 aan die PU verbonde en tussen 1988 en 1989 waarnemende departementshoof); (4) Marthina Elaine Botha (vanaf 1969 dosent en vanaf 1990 tot 1995 departementshoof; (5) Johannes Jacob Venter (vanaf 1970 dosent aan die PU, na ʼn tydperk (1979-1974) by die Universiteit van Fort Hare weer terug aan die PU en vanaf 1996 tot 1998 departementshoof; (6) Vanaf 1999 tot 2001 verloor filosofie sy selfstandigheid deurdat dit demoveer word tot slegs ʼn vakgroep binne een van die nuutgestigte skole, die Skool vir Sosiale en Owerheidstudies waarvan prof Willie van Wyk die direkteur was. (7) Pieter Jacobus Johannes Stephanus Potgieter (vanaf 2001 tot 2008 direkteur van die nuwe Skool vir Filosofie); (8) Michael F. Heyns (vanaf 2002 dosent in Filosofie en vanaf 2009 tot op datum direkteur van die Skool).\u0000\u0000Hierdie artikel word afgesluit met ʼn breedvoerige evalue","PeriodicalId":38057,"journal":{"name":"Koers","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87720459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Die Ned Geref Kerkorde van 1962: In samehang en voeling met die res van die lewe of werklikheid?","authors":"P. Strauss","doi":"10.19108/koers.83.1.2369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19108/koers.83.1.2369","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: \u0000The Church Order of 1962 of the Dutch Reformed Church: connected to the rest of life with a feeling for the whole of creation?\u0000\u0000The Church Order of 1962 was the first church order accepted by the new General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church. Apart from the fact that it tried to be an order according to Holy Scripture and the Three Formulas of Unity as reformed confessions of faith, it contains articles based on norms revealed outside the contact and cooperation of the church with the rest of life. Norms revealed out of the pattern of God’s creation in which aspects created with an own character together with other such aspects, form an integrated whole. An aspect will lead a human act and use the core of other aspects to form norms for the act mentioned.\u0000\u0000The Church Order of 1962 is investigated from article 1 till 70. The question in the title is answered in the affirmative. This Church order is connected to the rest of life and contains articles to confirm this.\u0000\u0000Opsomming: \u0000\u0000Die eerste kerkorde van die nuwe Algemene Sinode van die Ned Geref Kerk in 1962 poog om Bybels en belydenismatig te wees. Daarom bou dit op konstantes of beginsels wat op die Woord van God en die belydenisskrifte van die Ned Geref Kerk gebaseer is. Hiernaas weerspieël dit norme soos blootgelê deur die samehang van die kerk met die res van die lewe of geskape werklikheid. ‘n Werklikheid waarin daar ‘n verskeidenheid oorspronklike aspekte is wat met mekaar saamhang. ‘n Lewe waarin elke menslike handeling deur ‘n aspek gelei word en die kern van ander aspekte in diens neem as norme vir optrede.\u0000\u0000Die Kerkorde van 1962 word van artikel 1 tot 70 vir sulke norme of samehange ondersoek. Die vraag in die titel word bevestigend beantwoord. Die Ned Geref Kerk leef in samehang en voeling met die res van die lewe.","PeriodicalId":38057,"journal":{"name":"Koers","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86744209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discovering “old” values: What does John Calvin have to contribute to new Learning Organisations?","authors":"D. Du Plessis","doi":"10.19108/koers.83.1.2312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19108/koers.83.1.2312","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: \u0000Discovering “old” values: What does John Calvin have to contribute to new Learning Organisations?\u0000Modern organisations are subjected to increasing demands to provide space for employees and members to find purpose, meaning and sense in what they do every day. This article aims to connect John Calvin’s ideas related to calling and self-denial as principle with the needs of organisations to accommodate staff members’ need to be meaningfully engaged with the work they do in the context of the idea of Learning Organisations.\u0000This is done by briefly pointing to the disillusionment of postmodern society with the modernistic forces of rationalism, linear thinking, bureaucratisation and standardisation which have led to the dehumanisation of organisations and ultimately the world of work. It is also indicated that a new trend in organisational thinking is the development of the concept of a Learning Organisation. The Learning Organisation idea is a break with modern bureaucratic and hierarchical thinking.\u0000The aim is then to link these relatively new two streams of ideas with the views which John Calvin articulated about the calling or vocation of the faithful and their relationship with their fellow humans.\u0000The conclusion is that for the faithful the Learning Organisation and acknowledgement of their spiritual contribution is an opportunity to claim the workplace as territory to be in the service of others (as explained in Chapter 7 of Book 3 of the Institutes – and effectively in service of God) and to experience work as a true vocation and calling.\u0000 \u0000Opsomming: \u0000Ontdekking van “ou” waardes: Wat kan Johannes Calvyn bydra tot nuwe Leerorganisasies?\u0000Moderne organisasies kry te doen met toenemende eise om ruimte te voorsien vir werknemers en lede van die organisasies waarin hulle doel, betekenis en waarde kan sien in wat hulle elke dag doen. Hierdie artikel poog om Johannes Calvyn se idees van roeping en selfverloëning as beginsel te verbind met die behoefte van organisasies om werknemers betekenisvol betrokke te maak in die werk wat hulle doen in die konteks van die idee van Leerorganisasies.\u0000Dit word gedoen deur kortliks te wys op die teleurstelling van die postmoderne samelewing met die modernistiese kragte van rasionalisme, linieêre denke, burokratisering en standardisering wat gelei het tot die ontmensliking van organisasies en uiteindelik die wêreld van werk. Dit wys ook daarop dat ‘n nuwe beweging in organisatoriese denke ontstaan het wat die ontwikkeling van die idee van die Leeroganisasie voorstaan. Die Leerorganisasie konsep verteenwoordig ‘n breuk met moderne burokratiese en hiërargiese denke.\u0000Die doel is dan om hierdie relatief nuwe twee strome van idees te verbind met die sienings wat Johannes Calvyn uitgedruk het oor die roeping van gelowiges in die werkplek en hulle verhouding met die medemens.\u0000Die gevolgtrekking is dat die gelowiges die Leerorganisasie en erkenning van hulle geestelike bydrae as ‘n geleentheid kan gebruik om die ","PeriodicalId":38057,"journal":{"name":"Koers","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81915776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}