Contemporary history experiences of Kallie de Beer: Stories of my grandpa and- mother about the Anglo Boer War. The family link to the diamond related and seventh adventist church de Beers. Farms in the Free State's little towns and trips abroad. Research in contemporary history of South African diplomacy and the change of the former South African Army into a peacekeeping force in Africa and additional academic research in casu open distance e-learning.

Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Religious practices in school

Çurrently the debate about religious practices in South Frican schools is becoming very disturbing by so many opinions about the matter. Philosophically reasoning ad nauseam. My practical experience was that either the principal or a teacher opened once a week with scripture reading and singing in the school hall. Periods asigned for religious lessons were usually used for additional academic lessons in risk subjects. No fuss at all. When I was enlisted in the Air Force Gymnasium in Valhalla, I was exposed to different religious denominations as well as the use of Engkish as one of the official languages. The Air Force officers who opened certain parades with Bible reading and prayers discerned their themes according to the various denominations. Some denominations were pardoned to withdraw from religious practices. When I became a teacher in 1969 at the Brebner Schoolin Bloemfontein, the principal, Mr Flippie Bierman , applied the same practice as I experienced in the Air Force. Again, no fuss about the freedom to practice relious practises during morning prayers. However, human rights organisations all of a sudden jumped on the band wagon to prevent the enforcement of a certain denomination above the other.

Monday, July 31, 2017

Doodle pictture of mountains


Sunday, July 30, 2017

DOODLES / DUDEL TOPF; Foolish scrabble Art

Absent minded scribble in boring meetings or academic papers...Squiggle some griffoneric lines into scribble art on the back of the minutes to appear making serious notes. Doodlers overcome their frustrations with foolish sketches or real abstract figures.   Actually, doodler art could be very creative artifacts of modern art.  Digital examples could also become a reality.  Doodlers should actually post their artifacts directly on my blog instead of deleting it or dump it into the dustbin. It would be interesting to see the "secred pretending acts of faked note taking". The following publications of digital outputs may stimulate doodlers like myself to start compiling their personal creations :

Computer literacy problems and technoligal differences

Dear readers, please ignore incompatable scanned postings from different computers and especially from tablets and cell phones.            Thank you for your understanding the quality  in casu publications and ordening of themes since the beginning of this Blog up to date.