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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 ... -
Africa-Lite: cultural appropriation and commodification of historic blackness in post-apartheid fabric and décor design
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the past few years, cultural appropriation has gained a degree of notoriety as a buzzword, after emerging into the wider public arena from academic, legal and political discourses. Internationally ... -
Thinking about, with and through design : a cartography for transformation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Transformation in South African higher education has recently been a topic of major debate. Student protests have given rise to increased awareness of the inherent complexities involved in actively working ... -
The "human colour" crayon : investigating the attitudes and perceptions of learners regarding race and skin colour
(University of South Africa Press, 2017)Some coloured and black learners in South Africa use a light orange or pink crayon to represent themselves in art. Many learners name this colour “human colour” or “skin colour”. This is troublesome, because it could reflect ... -
Investigating "othering" in visual arts spaces of learning
(University of South Africa Press, 2017)In the political, social, cultural and economic context of South Africa, higher education spaces provide fertile ground for social research. This case study explored “othered” identities in the Department of Visual Arts ... -
Exploring the transformative potential of collaborative art projects on the Stellenbosch University campus
(UNISA Press, 2015)this article explores the potential of visual art projects in negotiating social transformation within the context of a South African higher education institution (HeI). the experiences of students and staff involved in ... -
#FeesMustFall and decolonising the curriculum : Stellenbosch University students’ and lecturers’ reactions
(HESA, 2018)In South African higher education institutions, the student protests of 2015–2016 called for the decolonisation of higher education spaces and equal access to these spaces. We collected data from students and lecturers ... -
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 ... -
Investigating the semiotic landscape of the house museum in Stellenbosch, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa as a nation achieved democracy in 1994; however, the country’s institutions of knowledge and power are still grappling with the ways that they can and must facilitate transformation. The ... -
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 ... -
Punt, lyn en vlak : tekenpraktyk as demokratiese wyse van maak.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I ask the question: How to move from a point of state to an expanded and changed field with new possibilities? In this study the standpoint is held that both design and art is transforming ... -
Exploring safe spaces for students to engage with critical and caring thinking regarding portrayals of ‘self’ and ‘other’
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As an educator at a private higher education institution, I have observed that there is very little critical dialogue on politically sensitive issues in the classes I teach. A sense of rainbowism, which ...
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