Research

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Research

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Research

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This collection contains the research outputs produced by students, lecturers and researchers working on the RADA project, including theses, dissertations, papers and presentations.

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Negotiating power relations in the establishment of an arts education programme in a primary school in Delft, Western Cape
In reaction to the impoverished status of art education in South Africa, this study was aimed at gaining insight into the power relations that played out during the implementation of a specific art education programme in a low-income area in Delft,…

Perception of globalisation: How high school learners perceive and express their understandings of globalisation
The research focused on how high school learners perceive globalisation, how those perceptions are expressed, what those expressions reveal about high school learners’ attitudes towards globalisation and to what extent attitudes expressed by high…

An exploration of the potential of wordless picturebooks to encourage parent–child reading in the South African context
An exploration of wordless picturebooks to encourage parent–child reading in the South African context




Introducing a diploma course at the Department of Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University: An investigation into the attitudes and perceptions regarding social racial and economic transformation
1. Description of research for MA in Visual Arts (Art Education) thesis:
Introducing a diploma course at the Department of Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University: An investigation into attitudes and perceptions regarding social, racial and economic…

The strategy of creative self-representation to counter hegemonic representations of the black female body
In this article I consider specific artworks by South African female artists Tracey Rose, Zanele Muholi
and Mary Sibande and discuss whether the strategy of creative self-representation can be employed
to counter hegemonic representations of 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 education context
The purpose of this study was to celebrate, bring awareness of and further educate Stellenbosch University students who participated in this study regarding the history of Charlotte Maxeke. The study topic was chosen to discover the different ways in…

When art informs: A case study to negotiate social stereotypes and stigmas through art at Taung Junior Secondary School
The main aim of this study was to explore visual art as learning platform to negotiate social and cultural meanings and inform understanding of the self. The study took the form of an interpretive qualitative case study at Taung Junior Secondary…

Investigating the semiotic landscape of the house museum in Stellenbosch, South Africa
The research questioned what a comparative analysis of the semiotic landscapes of the Stellenbosch Village Museum and the Kayamandi Creative District House Museum reveal about the broader historical and sociocultural contexts wherein each exist, with…

This study investigated the potential historical and sociolinguistic roles of the Cape vernacular Afrikaans, or Kaaps, within post-colonial contemporary South Africa. It explored notions surrounding the agency of the marginalised Cape vernacular…

Towards an edible museum: Exploring foodways as sociomuseological practice in a South African township
Journal article published in Curator: The Museum Journal in October 2017. See original link here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cura.12222/full

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