Browsing by Author "Damon, Eleanor Denise"

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    'n Genealogiese analise van die Cyster-familie van Pniël : hulle bydrae tot die ontwikkeling van 'n sendingdorp en 'n geslote gemeenskap in Suid-Afrika
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12) Damon, Eleanor Denise; Burden, M.; Heese, H. F.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of History.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is a study of the family history of the Cyster family of the mission station in Pniël in the Western Cape. The overview of the family history starts before the inception of the mission station in 1843 up to the current generation. The family tree covers a period of 200 years and is based on genealogical and cultural historical methodology. The ancestral patriarch, Carel Cyster, was working as a slave on the neighbouring farm of Lekkerwijn, in the district of Groot-Drakenstein. The archival resources are not clear about his residence before he registered as a slave on this farm. The names of all the slaves who are documented appear without any surnames. It is thus difficult to identify the patriarch because of all the hundreds of persons who had the same name as him. He married Sara Willemse on 23 July 1844 in Pniël. The origin of Sara is also from the same farm of Lekkerwijn where she lived with her mother and family. According to oral history she was known as a "duusvrou". Ten children were born out of this marriage, six boys and four girls. One of the daughter's genealogical footprint cannot be followed after she was baptised in the church of Pniël. The family had to reconstruct themselves as a family unit with a new sense of identity after the emancipation of the slaves in 1838. The choice to join the mission station had many positive consequences for the entire family. The biggest benefit was that they could legally stay together as a family. The majority of the family are still living on the mission station today as part of the closed community where they follow the traditions that were started many years ago. The seven generations of the other nine children of Carel Cyster en Sara Willemse can easily be researched by looking at the marriage, baptism and membership registers of the Congregational Church in Pniël or in the Archives of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa in Stellenbosch. The off-springs of this pioneer couple have migrated across the world where they, like their forefathers, contribute to the communities they belong to. The social mobility of the Cyster family evolved from humble beginnings as farm workers to careers where they compete in the top echelons of the job market. Modern technology has immensely simplified the task of the researcher to gather information from online resources. Data of family members can also be entered onto a family website by the members themselves.
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    Volksdans as komponent van die liggaamlike opvoedingprogram binne 'n multikulturele Suid-Afrikaanse gemeenskap
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1995-11) Damon, Eleanor Denise; Cyster, Eleanor Denise; Carl, A. E.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Curriculum Studies.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South African education is facing a big dilemma. Teachers, curriculators and students are confronted with the issue of multiculturalism because of the establishment of one education department. Equality in education has to oe offered to all citizens and implemented by all teachers. In moving from a monocultural to a multicultural approach, all teaching spheres would necessarily be affected. Re-evaluation, change and an improvementclre required and these reconstructive measures be geared towards breaking down isolation, fragmentation and mistrust within the diverse South African society. Through a literature study, some perspectives on the problematic nature of the current teaching program will be addressed. Various perspectives on multiculturalism serves as a framework for argumentation about the viability of such an approach. The contribution of the school subject, Physical Education, towards harmony and solidarity, will be established. The focus will be on one of the dance components, Folk Dancing, and in what way it can assist the process of socialization for the creation of a sense of national unity. The orientation to this study will be done in chapter one. In chapter two the current problematic conditions within education serve as a background for the total dilemma in which the South African teaching profession are outlined. The different problems surrounding the school sUbject, Physical Education, are discussed, which were a direct result of the fragmentation of the previous education system. The needs of the multicultural community are not met entirely in the current Physical Education syllabi. In chapter three the different perspectives on multicultural education are given and the experiences that countries like Australia, Britain, the United States of America and Namibia had with the implementation of multicultural education to serve their multicultural societies. The school needs to serve the community. That is why the process of planning the total educational practice needs to be reviewed as to the relevancy of the school curriculum in order to serve the needs of the community. In chapter four the place of Physical Education in the school curriculum is established and the role that Folk Dancing has to play in order to serve as means to foster social harmony, respect and tolerance. In chapter five a cultural composition needs to be done in order to establish what the multicultural community in South Africa consists of, what the different majority cultural groups are and what research already has been attempted in the documentation of the different South African cultural folkdances. The need is then to develop a program which will cover the twelve years of schooling in order to, serve as an interim program to create a bettfJr understanding between the differ']nt cultural groups of the country. In the final chapter conclusions and recommendations will be put forward to enable future study.