Browsing by Subject "Embodiment"
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The cinematic witch : the development of the witch in popular horror films
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)The film Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) established certain conventions related to the witch horror film genre. These conventions are specifically related to the witch’s body and her supernatural abilities and ... -
Constructing identities in an online forum of a South African university
(Taylor & Francis / Unisa Press, 2015)The researchers construct the identity of participants by analysing online and offline identity performances in a virtual forum of a higher education institution in South Africa. The study identifies several interactional ... -
Democratizing an online discussion forum at a higher education institution : from rationalistic exclusion to the recognition of multiple presences
(North-West University, 2013)Institutional transformation initiated the creation of an online forum by academic staff at the North-West University. This forum functioned as an official space on the intranet of the institution as a result of the need ... -
Digital media, the body and agency in a South African education institution from the perspective of narrative research
(AOSIS, 2020)In developing countries, digital media have created uneven nexuses of literacy, power and societal adjustment. Whilst literacy and power have been the subject of much research in South Africa, often supporting a conception ... -
Embodied self-awareness among South African social services therapist-practitioners: an exploratory study
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)We explored South African social service therapist-practitioners’ experiences of their own lived body in the context of practice. The participants consisted of a convenience sample of 13 therapist-practitioners registered ... -
Embodiment in the poetry of Gabeba Baderoon
(2012)This dissertation examines the relation between embodiment and language, knowledge and memory, as explored in the poetry of South African poet Gabeba Baderoon. In her three published collections of poetry, namely, The ... -
A holistic pedagogy of expressive arts through metacognitive transference of embodied experiences
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2020)Many people do not associate the arts with “thinking” and are unaware that emotional, physical and cognitive abilities of students are the real driving forces behind expressive art forms. There is a lack of research on the ... -
Improvisation through Dalcroze-inspired activities in beginner student jazz ensembles : a hermeneutic phenomenology
(2014)This dissertation investigated the meanings students from beginner jazz ensembles ascribe to learning jazz improvisation through Dalcroze-inspired activities. Over the course of ten weeks, students from three respective ... -
Indigenous South African poetry as conduits of History: Epi-poetics – a pedagogy of memory
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2019)This conceptual article argues that a pedagogy of poetic memory, or epipoetics, can be used to remember and ‘re-member’ the past in the present in the history classroom. Epi-poetics as a theory encapsulates the dynamic ... -
The representation of the female body/embodiment in selected mainstream American films
(North-West University, 2014)In her article “Visual pleasure and narrative cinema” (1975) Laura Mulvey explains how film portrays the female characters as passive sexualised objects, on display for the male (erotic) gaze. Although, Mulvey did make ...