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Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centre Leadership during COVID-19 in Urban and Rural Areas in South Africa 新冠肺炎期间南非城市和农村地区幼儿发展（ECD）中心领导

Alternation Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a16

K. Bipath, A. Aina

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Response to Judith Browns Mahatma Gandhi 1869 1948 Interrogating the Practice of Politics 对朱迪思·布朗的回应圣雄甘地1869年1948年质疑政治实践

Alternation Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38c04

K. Hiralal, Betty Govinden

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Chabani Manganyi Existential Phenomenological Psychology of Difference Chabani Manganyi:存在现象学差异心理学

Alternation Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38c07

M. P. More

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Drifting Apart Africans with Albinism and the UDHR at 70 70岁时与白化病和《世界人权宣言》分离的非洲人

Alternation Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38c18

B. Nkrumah

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Female Principals’ Narratives of Leading Schools in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic 新冠肺炎大流行时期名校女校长的叙事

Alternation Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a14

Felicia Williams, J. Perumal

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Challenges of Student Accommodation at Institutions of Higher Learning A Case Study of University of KwaZulu Natal South Africa 高等学校学生住宿的挑战——以南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔大学为例

Alternation Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38c16

S. Krishna

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Policy Analysis for School Leaders’ Development during the Covid-19 Pandemic – An Adaptive Leadership Practice Framework 新冠肺炎疫情期间学校领导发展的政策分析——适应性领导实践框架

Alternation Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a7

Edwin Darrell de Klerk, J. Palmer

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Developing a Theology of Discernment in Response to the Abuse of Religion by Some Pentecostal Churches in Postcolonial South Africa 针对后殖民时期南非一些五旬节派教会对宗教的滥用，发展一种分辨神学

Alternation Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a18

M. S. Kgatle

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Developing Academic Identities as Gay Male Lecturers at South African Universities: Two Autoethnographic Narratives 南非大学男同性恋讲师的学术身份发展:两种自我民族志叙事

Alternation Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n2a3

Grant Andrews, H. Nichols

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Gandhis Holistic Philosophy Liberation and Village Life Response to Prof Judith Brown 甘地的整体哲学、解放与乡村生活——对朱迪思·布朗教授的回应

Alternation Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38c03

E. Gandhi

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