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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 ... -
Criss-cross : on weaving as a time-based process
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates weaving as a method concerned with the process of making rather than a process centred around the outcome (as is customary). My work is situated in a fast-paced and technologically-driven ... -
Redrawing ecology : dark ecological thought in art-design practice
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis follows my practice based research process as a visual communication designer concerned with visualising deep ecological thought. Throughout this thesis, I apply Timothy Morton’s dark ecology ... -
Perceptions of globalisation : how high school learners perceive and express their understanding of globalisation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As an art educator, my role is to assist learners to assign a deeper meaning to art. Learners need to be guided to connect with art on a greater than superficial level based on the obvious aesthetic. ... -
Setting art apart : inside and outside the South African National Gallery (1895-2016)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTARCT: Setting Art Apart explores practices of exclusion and erasure in the white art world in South Africa. It looks at how art and art spaces, such as the art museum and the art academy were part of a project ... -
The edible museum : exploring foodways as sociomuseological practice in Kayamandi, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Food is one of the most fundamental aspects related to human well-being. The ways in which food moves through community social systems, through foodways, are implicated in complex networks of privilege ... -
A visual and textual re-storying of the diary of Susanna Catharina Smit (1799-1863)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This doctoral project, which involves a thesis and a body of artworks, is a re-storying of the muted voices of three of my female ancestors: my mother, my grandmother and the Voortrekker woman Susanna ... -
Pretorius v Dietrich 1872 : klinkende munt of papiergeld?
(LitNet, 2015-04)Daar was geen amptelike hofverslae in die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) voor 1877 nie. Hierdie bydrae gee ’n rare blik op ’n regsdispuut wat uit die vroeë 1870’s dateer. Die feite van die dispuut is afgelei uit verwante ... -
Reflecting on critical citizenship in critical times
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2016)After the first democratic elections in South Africa 22 years ago, people were in general optimistic and could imagine a better future for all. This hope slowly faded over time for many young people. Only 15% of undergraduate ... -
Henry Giroux on critical pedagogy and engaged curricula
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2015)INTRODUCTION: In Neoliberalism’s war on higher education (2014), Henry Giroux refers to neoliberalism as a central organising idea in shaping his critical view of higher education. At the time of its writing, Giroux was ... -
Curriculum challenges in higher education
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2015)INTRODUCTION: A decade ago and 11 years after the birth of a new democratic political dispensation in South Africa, an important contribution to inquiry into higher education curricula saw the light. But, in writing their ...
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