Youth Services at Schulzendal

Youth Services at Schulzendal

Over the years, it has become a tradition that students participate in an outreach program, giving them the opportunity to experience missionary work. These trips typically take place in areas with significant spiritual needs. While the students gain valuable exposure, the goal is also to support and encourage the children of God labouring in these…

Teaching Practice

Teaching Practice

Of the 3 lessons I learnt during WIL, the first began long before I reached school. For us late sleepers, the thought of rising before the sun is not exactly a pleasant one. But after 5 weeks of sunrise drives, I’ve learnt to love the early morning beauty and freshness. It was after the first…

Professor Johannes van der Walt visits Cedar

Professor Johannes van der Walt visits Cedar

From 11-13 September 2024, Cedar had the honour of hosting a seminar titled “Writing a scholarly article” presented by Professor Johannes van der Walt. The seminar covered each phase of the academic writing process in detail. Day 1: Professor van der Walt delivered a comprehensive, day-long seminar to all staff, addressing a common challenge faced…

30 years of Cedar

30 years of Cedar

Cedar’s 30-year celebration was a jubilant occasion spanning the weekend of the 11th and 12th of May. The celebration started briskly with a fun walk, for the whole family. Delicious refreshing drinks, and foods were on sale from the stalls of Bonlé, Aquellé, The Coffee Company and Emseni bakery and butchery. Tantalising smells from the…

Field Trip to Dairy Farm

Field Trip to Dairy Farm

Cedar students were treated to an in-depth learning experience on 21 February 2024 when they visited Shandon Dairy Farm near Mooi River, KZN. Topics ranged from crop rotation to silage making and mechanised dairy farming. The students came back with heads crammed full of knowledge about sustainable farming, conservation, and other farming practices. Overall, the…

The value of future-creating workshop to establish educator-learner relations built on moral values

Dr E Bosman | Published in Ensovoort Journal for Cultural Studies ISSN 2616-7670 Mezirow’s critical transformative learning approach steered the participants in their endeavour to answer the research question: How can a participatory and collaborative action research approach enable educators to develop an understanding of learner behaviour in their classrooms and develop relationship-centred strategies to…

Protestant Revivals (Awakenings) and Transformational Impact: A Comparative Evaluation Framework Applied on the Revival among the Zulus (South Africa)

Dr E Fleischmann | Published in Sage Journals, Volume 38, Issue 4 This article addresses paucity in literature on the conceptualising of the true nature of a Protestant revival. Through a literary review and document study, the article aims to compile a Protestant revival evaluation criterion (PREC) to assess protestant revivals. This was done by…

The accuracy of indirect methods for predicting feed intake of sheep at steady-state intake and following abrupt changes in intake

Dr J Pienaar | Published in Livestock Production Science, Volume 48, Issue 2, p.117-127 Four indirect methods for estimating feed intake were compared with actually measured feed intake when intake was uninterrupted, and also when intakes were changed abruptly. Intakes were estimated from: marker infused into the rumen and collected at the abomasum of faeces,…