Masters Degrees (Visual Arts)
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A case study investigating creative teaching strategies inspired by Waldorf education at a public high school in the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As a Visual Arts and Design educator, with eight years of public school teaching experience of engaging with and implementing the CAPS curriculum, I noticed how often learners struggled with the theory ... -
Investigating the benefits of art education as a core subject at a school in the Khomas region in Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis argues for the importance of incorporating the arts as a core subject in public schools in Namibia. Arts education is key to improving learners’ learning experiences, but the Namibian government ... -
Kaaps : exploring the power of language as lived experience and its formative role in knowledge production and self-understanding within an art gallery in the South African context
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During my undergrad education in the Visual Arts Department at Stellenbosch University, as a working-class ‘coloured’1, I was immersed in a white Afrikaans culture for the first time. It allowed me to ... -
Besinning : verwaardiging van siekte
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the representation of the abject body in contemporary visual arts. I experience my own body as abject, through my personal experience with an all-consuming diseased body, caused ... -
Dwelling in the Cederberg as a means to explore photographic, land and sound scapes
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Through the act of dwelling, this thesis investigates how a bodily experience of space can be mapped through photographic, land and sound ‘scapes’, and in doing so be responsible for the creation of ... -
Faith in a doubtful space : an introduction to the idea of faith as an artistic praxis in a contemporary environment
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is an examination of the idea of faith as an artistic praxis; as a contemporary practice. It deals with the issue of religious based artwork and its relevance in a contemporary environment ... -
Neither soul nor body : a hauntological exploration of the folkloresque in horror video games
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: No abstract -
Examining how integrating digital technology with traditional media impacts the process of Artmaking in the art classroom : a case study of Grade 6 class in an independent girls school in Gauteng
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The 21st-century classroom is experiencing global changes that require digital technology to be integrated in the curriculum of each subject offered in schools. Digital technology is shaping and forming ... -
A semiotic analysis of wordless picture books produced in the context of Kayamandi, Western Cape, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Picture books can act as a foundation to introduce knowledge and tell stories in education, as well as a way to utilise wordless picture books and the value thereof. This can lead to an improvement in ... -
The lived experiences of street-based sex workers in Woodstock, Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study presents ‘Participatory Action’ based research, combined with first person narration and lived experiences, that was conducted with street-based sex workers, based in Woodstock, Cape Town, ... -
Examining the flipped classroom approach to teaching in a creative development setting in higher education in South Africa.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In a traditional classroom setting teachers tend to teach their class with little interaction with their students. The ‘flipped’ classroom approach has received attention for its potential as a new ... -
The effects of social media on the revitalisation of feminism and coloured women's identity politics
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Despite the movement towards cultivating a democracy since 1994, South Africa is a country which still faces many challenges as a result of political and racial remnants of the Apartheid regime. With ... -
An investigation of affect responses drawn from South African tertiary level visual communication students by means of illustrating the corporeal feminine through comic book art.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sequential narratives, generally referred to as comics, which directly address the nature of the female body and its flows, have both been censured and praised. These comics have resulted in affecting ... -
On mystical form
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is not a conventional thesis. It brings together ideas that do not self-evidently belong together. The common denominator throughout is myself: my conceptual and art-making process. The ideas I ... -
The abject, frail fourth age body: art jewellery as a tool to re-interpret aged female bodies
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates art jewellery as social communicator and questions the way in which the Fourth Age female individual is perceived. The argument of this thesis will be presented in conjunction ... -
To wonder: a cartography of information technology as a hidden curriculum and its effect on learning environments for art education
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During my artistic studies within the South African educational system, I gradually learnt how to voice the problems that ideologies and methodologies cause when used in the teaching of standardised ... -
Hillsong’s Colour Sisterhood and Feminism within the Context of South Africa: A Critical Analysis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a critical analysis of Hillsong’s Colour Sisterhood movement and Colour Conference event in Cape Town during 2017. Following Shireen Hassim’s argument for the recognition of non-political ... -
Between colour lines : interrogating the category ‘coloured’ in depictions of District Six in the work of five South African artists
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Group Areas Act of 1950 radically affected coloured artists of the time, since it resulted in forced removals and the demolition of traditionally ‘coloured’ suburbs, and forced coloured people into ... -
The story of Charlotte Maxeke : an analysis of how visual arts can be utilised to reflect on race, gender, identity and citizenship in the South African higher educational context
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The history of South Africa represents oppressive systems of racial discrimination and subjugation, systems that were used in the construction of social institutions. Grounded in the institutionalisation ... -
The story of how it was made : an investigation of artistic practice
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This book is centred on the very act of artistic creation, in other words making. I aim to demonstrate that art making is a meaningful, generative and transformative activity. Specifically, I will argue ...
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