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Time to think: fostering critical and creative thinking through a practice-based investigation of the effects of time and space in the field of art education
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: my own experience as an artist, I have found the relations between time, space, matter and self to be fascinating subjects. The effort of understanding the impact these notions have on our behaviours led ... -
Three high school educators’ views on the influence of play on learners, with a focus on the current shift to online learning – a case study in the Western Cape of South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: I recognised the value of ‘play’ in my own art practice, while studying towards a Fine Art undergraduate degree. Approaching the making process with play allowed an exploratory process instead of a pressured ... -
Processing self: negotiating the tensions of Muslim womanhood through art-making in South Africa.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates processing the sociocultural complexities of being a South African Muslim woman, both locally and globally. The labyrinth of being a Muslim woman lends itself to questioning my ... -
Making otherwise: negotiating the spatial context of Stellenbosch University through situated making
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Student political activism on South African University campuses during the 2015/16 fallist period highlights not only issues pertaining to Western university curricula, institutional culture, and access ... -
Iteration: repetition as a ceative process
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My work and research stems from intuitive ways of working and a haptic understanding of materials and repetitive processes. The fragments that collect and assemble in my work are inspired by connections ... -
Illusive objects: An investigation into the embodiment of memory through contemporary jewellery
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation encompasses an investigation into the multifaceted and open-ended nature of memory. I interrogate my childhood memories, situated in the context of my grandparents’ home, through ... -
A framework for designing South African mobile learning experiences through a participatory design process
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With a global trend towards digital and mobile learning in basic education, which has been recently spurred on by the global COVID-19 pandemic, the South African government has committed to large-scale ... -
Exploring the transition from art student to art educator through visual diaries
(2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My journey as an art student, volunteering facilitator and later as an arts educator has thus far been riddled with the fear of failure, a common experience for anyone hoping to have a positive social ... -
Exploring how teaching and learning practices and Hindu and Buddhist rituals can contribute to social cohesion in a multicultural classroom.
(2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explored how ritual practices form part of everyday teaching and learning and how Hindu and Buddhist rituals can further contribute to social cohesion in a multicultural classroom. The investigation ... -
Ever-shifting matter: an investigation into the spatial, temporal, and sensorial process of my artmaking
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is the written component of my practice-based research. This piece of writing takes the form of a journal in which I discuss my interest in the philosophy and practice of meditation, and the ... -
Die ondersoek van die Ceres geforseerde narratiewe met die doel om drie woordelose storieboeke te publiseer.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Storytelling connects the past to the present. Since the fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa, there has always been a strive towards restoring the injustices of the past. Generations before us ... -
Contemporary jewellery as gnosis: interpreting alchemy through contemporary jewellery objects
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is a practiced based enquiry that concerns itself with the interpretation of the ideas of alchemy through the creation of a range of contemporary jewellery pieces. This study consists of both ... -
Agency through art: exploring self-efficacy in grade ten to twelve art learners at a private school in the Free State
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research explored results pertaining to adolescents’ agency over their artistic practice. After working with grade ten to twelve art learners in a private education setting, I noticed insecurity with ...
