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Negotiating power relations
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: After two decades of democracy, the phrase ‘a troubled time’ could be seen as accurately describing the current educational reality of South Africa. Art education has, in particular, been described as being ... -
Migrations : Photographic representations of biography, place and entanglement in contemporary South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Die volgende tesis fokus op die lewensverhale van vyf vrouens, elk ewe oud, wat afkomstig is van verskillende agtergronde en in Stellenbosch Suid Afrika gewoon het as migrante gedurende 2014 en 2015. ... -
Investigating the human condition through the sculpted figure: exploring the artworks of Jane Alexander, Camille Claudel, Rook Floro, and William Kentridge
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: “Investigating the Human Condition through the Sculpted Figure” examines the expression of the human condition through the sculpted medium. This thesis will explore the notion of the shadow in the writings ... -
Investigating salt through art jewellery
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: This thesis is a materialist investigation of salt as a vibrant material within the practice of art jewellery. My art jewellery practice, with salt as main material, serves as the basis of this art ... -
Investigating grade 3 learners' perceptions and attitudes toward skin colour in two schools in the Western Cape - a case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: During my time as an educator in the Western Cape I noticed that learners named a certain light-coloured wax crayon menskleur (‘human colour’) or ‘skin colour’. This occurrence is troublesome within the ... -
Introducing a diploma course at the Department of Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University: an investigation into attitudes and perceptions regarding social and racial transformation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The need for social change in an environment that is burdened with a history of segregation becomes evident in a landscape that remains largely culturally homogenous. Through art education with a focus on ... -
Imagining Paradise - The Aestheticized Garden as Articulation of a Mythic Western Imaginary of Paradise
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: This study explores the extent to which the aestheticized garden can coercively articulate a mythic Western imaginary of paradise as the site for an occidental exotic fantasy of the East. The splendour ... -
Fail and guard : an interactive public art inquiry into the underlying attitudes towards socio-economic discrepancies in Stellenbosch
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: Economic inequality in South Africa can be witnessed on a daily basis in terms of unequal educational opportunities, vast differences in living conditions, and inconsistencies in job opportunities, but is ... -
Exploring matric art students’ interpretation of the art curriculum and the socio-political implications of the topic issue at three independent schools in Gauteng
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: This research focused on the experiences and perceptions of 21 matric art students from three independent schools in Gauteng, and the socio-political implications of their given topic for the year 2015. ... -
Editorial Cartoons and Propaganda Posters of the Union of South Africa’s pro-war press during the First World War; 1914-1918
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The thesis investigates how editorial cartoons and propaganda posters of the pro-war South African press were employed during the First World War to recruit soldiers from British colonies. A brief ... -
Die plek van transkulturele kinderprenteboeke in Suid-Afrika
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Hierdie verhandeling is ‘n kritiese analise, vanuit my uitgangspunt as illustreerder, oor die rol wat transkulturele kinderprenteboeke in ‘n kontemporêre Suid-Afrika speel. Kinderprenteboeke het die ...
