Rethinking visual journaling in the creative process: Exploring pedagogic implications

I lecture jewellery design at a university of technology in South Africa. Through this study, I wish to arrive at a deeper understanding of my own creative process, so that I can facilitate the creative development of my students. The focus of this paper is the visual journal, or reflective sketchbook, which I require my students to keep. To establish the relationship between my creative practice and visual journaling, I analysed a creative poetic performance I delivered at the South African Educational Research Association’s (SAERA) 2016 conference. Using the little-c definition of creativity, I analyse the threads that constituted and contributed to my performance, to see how aspects of self-manifested within this creative process. I did the analysis by conducting an autoethnographic self-interview, and then examining the responses. To my surprise, I discovered that the inspiration for my own creative work does not necessarily originate in my visual journal and that the visual journal could play a more useful role, if used as a prompt for reflective conversations

Streamlining the integration between INNOPAC’s electronic course reserves and WebCT.

This article is a discussion of how electronic information resources can be used inside the online academic environment and in particular how the electronic course reserves (ECR) module of INNOPAC can be integrated with the WebCT environment. In the online academic environment, the trend is for information sources to be integrated and made available via a single point of entry. Such information sources mainly consist of copyrighted material that is effectively managed by ECR systems. These systems administer and control access to the copyrighted material, that is ECR documents. This article consists of two parts. The first focuses on the online academic environment and the role of the Internet. It continues with a brief discussion of the online academic information sources and virtual libraries. The latter part of the article focuses on the Rand Afrikaans University’s online academic environment and a practical method of integrating an ECR system with this online environment

The law of slavery: The predicament of the slave community at the Cape

Although slavery was not permitted in the Netherlands and in Britain, it was permitted in their colonies. The practice of slavery iras introduced at the Cape shortly after the establishment of the refreshment post, and ceased in 1834, long after Britain's permanent occupation of the Cape. In this article the legal position of the slave community at the Cape is analysed by means of the new insights gained from the study of various sources in the Cape Archives. The traditional viewpoint has been that the legal position of the slave community at the Cape should be evaluated in terms of Roman Law. There is some doubt, however, about whether Roman Law, albeit in an adapted form, was applied at the Cape during this period. The viewpoint taken in this article is that the legal position of the slaves should be evaluated against the background of the frame of reference for law enforcement contained in the Statuten van Batavia (1642) and later in the Nieuwe Statuten van Batavia (1766). From the analysis made of the legal practice at the Cape it appears that this frame of reference was not applied in respect of law enforcement. It emerges, however, that the traditional viewpoint, which holds that Roman Law was applied, should be clearly qualified

Expanding access to HIV counselling and testing at schools – the Manguzi experience

South Africa’s HIV epidemic disproportionately affects the youth.¹ The importance of knowing one’s status via voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) is recognised as a key strategy in fighting the epidemic and is reflected in the National Strategic Plan (NSP),2 which has set targets of 70% of all adults knowing their status by 2011 and 25% of all adults having been tested in the past 12 months. The Human Sciences Research Council survey in 2008¹ showed that 50.8% of all South Africans 15 years and older have had an HIV test, pointing to wider acceptance of VCT. As a further response to reaching the NSP target, the national HIV counselling and testing campaign3 was launched in April 2010 with a focus on mobilising all South Africans to be tested for HIV and ensuring that every South African knows their HIV status. Both the NSP and the national HIV testing campaign recognise the importance of community mobilisation and community-based models of VCT to achieve these targets. The NSP in particular has a goal to expand successful strategies of testing outside health care facilities to cover 70% of all districts by 2011. Young people are reluctant to use health care facilities, and several ‘youth friendly’ strategies have been tried to target adolescents. This case study serves to document the successes of one such community-based VCT strategy, aimed at young people in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa