Understanding students’ environmental perceptions and some of their determinants in Gauteng province: a case study at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Dlamini, Simangele; Block, Elizabeth; Rampedi, Isaac T.

doi:10.1080/03736245.2021.1917447

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“…In conclusion, it can be argued that power dynamics in the form of policy documents are what constitute the labour market, especially the private sector, which consolidates the idea that in the labour market power resides in the hands of the employers, and that they, as such, reserve the right to decide which applicant to accept and/or reject -implicitly deciding the destiny of applicants with a criminal record (Dlamini, 2016).…”

Section: Applying For a Permanent Academic Postmentioning

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Caught in the spider’s web: The collateral consequences of the criminal record on higher education, professional registration, and employment opportunities

Mdakane,

Nkambule,

Ngubane

2024

IJRBS

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Although significant research has already been conducted on the intricacies of the criminal record in South Africa and internationally, literature points to a disjuncture between research and policy, especially around topics relating to access to higher education (HE) and admission to professional registration councils by formerly incarcerated students (FIS) with a criminal record. This qualitative case study incorporated a discourse analysis approach to determine the tone of 23 policy documents. In addition, twelve participants were purposefully sampled to share their lived experiences regarding the regulation and reintegration of FIS when applying for admission to HE and professional registration councils and potential employment upon completion of their studies. The findings indicate that the construction of legal documents and application forms allows higher education institutions and professional registration councils to access students' personal data, such as their criminal records. This leads to implementing measures that exclude certain individuals, which in turn obstructs the effective social reintegration of formerly incarcerated individuals into the workforce. The study recommends the implementation of a South African research-based HE policy aimed at addressing the systemic injustices that regulate the simultaneous admission and rejection of FIS when applying to access HE and admission to professional registration councils. Keywords: higher education, professional registration councils, criminal record checks, offender reintegration, South Africa.

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Section: Applying For a Permanent Academic Postmentioning

confidence: 98%

Caught in the spider’s web: The collateral consequences of the criminal record on higher education, professional registration, and employment opportunities

Mdakane,

Nkambule,

Ngubane

2024

IJRBS

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“…Higher-income participants agreed with economic prioritisation, whereas people in rural areas were more concerned with the biosphere because of their investment in ecological assets such as crops and livestock (Struwig, 2010). Research with university students showed that the majority were neutral on whether they perceived a positive future for the environment in Gauteng with the authors ascribing this result to either indifference or ambivalence (Dlamini et al, 2021). Another study conducted with undergraduate students at a university in the North-West found that participants did not perceive the environment to be under threat, and endorsed conservation for human utilisation (Evert et al, 2022).…”

Section: Psychology and Environmental Justicementioning

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The relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental attitudes and what this means for environmental justice

Marais-Potgieter,

Thatcher

2022

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Government, policy, intervention campaigns, and communication strategies tend to separate social environmental issues from green environmental issues, and more recently, placing emphasis on responding to the pandemic. Interventions with an individualistic focus has also received criticism. Isolating issues from each other makes them deceptively simpler to deal in the short term, but at the cost of their interconnectedness impacting how future disasters might be managed. This myopic approach is of particular concern considering how climate change is increasingly impacting South Africans. This paper proposes two central questions: given evidence of the likely zoonotic source of COVID-19, how have relative rankings of the green environment changed between 2016 (pre COVID-19) and 2021 (COVID-19), and what does this mean for the study of environmental justice? A study conducted with 721 South Africans in 2016 aimed to establish where green environmental issues ranked compared to social and economic concerns. Subsequently, the pandemic provided an opportunity to conduct a follow up study with 665 South Africans to determine whether issues of concern are different during a pandemic. The results show that in the face of evidence of the zoonotic origins of COVID-19, there were little to no shifts in the ranking of green environmental issues in 2021 compared to 2016 among a sample of South Africans. The findings from this study suggest that red and brown issues could be powerfully leveraged to mobilise a range of movements for environmental justice in South Africa.

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Emotional intelligence, human values, creation and dissemination of content on social networks by girls in countries with emerging economies

Hoyos-Cifuentes,

Fernández-Otoya,

Rodríguez-Gómez

et al. 2024

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

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Understanding students’ environmental perceptions and some of their determinants in Gauteng province: a case study at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Cited by 3 publications

References 40 publications

Caught in the spider’s web: The collateral consequences of the criminal record on higher education, professional registration, and employment opportunities

Caught in the spider’s web: The collateral consequences of the criminal record on higher education, professional registration, and employment opportunities

The relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental attitudes and what this means for environmental justice

Emotional intelligence, human values, creation and dissemination of content on social networks by girls in countries with emerging economies

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