10. Chromametry: measuring precision of diurnal and local variation of human forearm skin colour - Schwarb, F.P.; Smith, E.W.; Haigh, J.M.; Surber, C. Chromameters are compact portable instruments used for the assessment of surface colour based on the tristimulus analysis of a reflected xenon light pulse, and have been used for the quantification of erythema in the study of irritant dermatitis, and corticosteroid-induced skin blanching in the vasoconstriction assay.
15. Where have all the fathers gone? Media(ted) representations of fatherhood - Prinsloo, J. While it is broadly accepted that the media do not reflect society, they do provide us with a repertoire of roles and images which we encounter and with which we engage." As the opening quote suggests, the media play a vital role in the circulation and mediation of ideas, attitudes and actions and their significance is commented on frequently.
16. Learning (dis)advantage in matriculation language classrooms - Prinsloo, J. In this chapter the focus is on the language curriculum and the associated practices, or what I refer to as the literacy practices that have become naturalised over decades and persist in the present.
18. Ecological thinking: Schopenhauer, J.M. Coetzee and who we are in the world - Wright, L.S. For the ecological agenda to make substantive progress, we will have to see powerful people and social agencies turning away from the ecological insanity that threatens us all, and for this to happen, people need to embrace voluntary renunciation, on the understanding that this is not self-sacrifice, but a different and more satisfying way of being in the world.
19. A research prospectus for the humanities - Wright, L.S. The humanities in South Africa, as elsewhere, face a crisis of credibility.There is pressing need for the humanities to articulate their social and educational purpose more clearly, so that their academic value is recognised beyond the confines of academia.The aim of reshaping human character and society remains the foundational impulse of the humanities.
20. Disgrace as J.M.Coetzee's Tempest - Wright, L.S. Amid the deluge of criticism and commentary evoked by Disgrace, quite remarkably nobody has noticed that the book re-engages exactly the energies Shakespeare deployed in The Tempest, a play which has become an icon, if not the icon, of colonial and post-colonial studies.