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View article: Introduction to this special issue
Introduction to this special issue Open
Background: Elmarie Costandius was passionate about pedagogy, particularly from a social justice perspective, throughout her career in higher education. Although located as a senior lecturer in the visual arts programme at Stellenbosch Uni…
View article: “Stopped in the middle” with Elm,arie Costandius: playing with interruptions/continuities
“Stopped in the middle” with Elm,arie Costandius: playing with interruptions/continuities Open
This paper is written in memory of our friend and colleague, Elmarie Costandius, a visual artist and academic, whose untimely and unexpected death deeply affected us. While we had worked with Elmarie in various research projects, short cou…
View article: Affective Oceanic Seaswimming and Encounters for Care-Full Environmental Communication
Affective Oceanic Seaswimming and Encounters for Care-Full Environmental Communication Open
Our oceanic swimming practice began as part of the project of doing scholarship differently in contemporary South African post-apartheid contexts. Swimming-writing-reading not only enables different ways of doing inquiry but also prompts n…
View article: Doing Academia Differently: In Conversation With Neuroatypicality
Doing Academia Differently: In Conversation With Neuroatypicality Open
This special issue originated from a webinar series made possible through a Tri-Continental (3C) Partnership between the University of the Western Cape, the University of Missouri, and Ghent University. These universities organized a serie…
View article: Wild Sea Swimming as a Slow Intimacy: Towards Reconfiguring Scholarship
Wild Sea Swimming as a Slow Intimacy: Towards Reconfiguring Scholarship Open
Our oceanic swimming-writing-reading together practice coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and subsequent lockdown in South Africa. Awash with vulnerability, precarity, and isolation, oceanic swimming-writing-reading became one o…
View article: Doing Concepts Differently
Doing Concepts Differently Open
This article proposes an alternative way of using concepts in the scholarship of teaching and learning in the South. Normative understandings and uses of concepts in educational scholarship are challenged through a postphilosophical and po…
View article: Editorial: Introduction to CriSTaL Special Issue: Thinking with ocean/s for reconceptualising scholarship in higher education
Editorial: Introduction to CriSTaL Special Issue: Thinking with ocean/s for reconceptualising scholarship in higher education Open
There are growing moves in higher education to reconceptualisescholarship in contemporary contexts. Located in a wide body of critical work including feminist new materialism, posthumanism, decolonial and indigenous thinking, efforts to re…
View article: Immanent and diffractive critique in scholarship and publication
Immanent and diffractive critique in scholarship and publication Open
Criticality and critique require careful attention by authors, reviewers, and editors in Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning (CRiSTaL), since they form a central focus of the journal. Conventional views of critique are influenced by …
View article: Immanent and diffractive critique in scholarship and publication
Immanent and diffractive critique in scholarship and publication Open
Criticality and critique require careful attention by authors, reviewers,and editors in Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning(CRiSTaL), since they form a central focus of the journal. Conventional views of critiqu…
View article: Reconfiguring a history of art and design curriculum in a South African university of technology
Reconfiguring a history of art and design curriculum in a South African university of technology Open
The South African #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall student struggles prised open spaces for critical arts-based pedagogies to disrupt art history, a discipline embodying Eurocentric cultural hegemony. While a growing body of literature ex…
View article: Writing and Drawing with Venus: Spectral Re-turns to a Haunted Art History Curriculum
Writing and Drawing with Venus: Spectral Re-turns to a Haunted Art History Curriculum Open
This article explores some of the complexities of teaching art and design history to students in a Design Extended Curriculum Programme at a university of technology in the context of post-1994 South African society—a society troubled by t…
View article: Touching Matters: Affective Entanglements in Coronatime
Touching Matters: Affective Entanglements in Coronatime Open
This article troubles touch as requiring embodied proximity, through an affective account of virtual touch during coronatime. Interested in doing academia differently, we started an online Barad readingwriting group from different location…
View article: Thinking-with-drawing: wandering/wondering through Manning’s text
Thinking-with-drawing: wandering/wondering through Manning’s text Open
This paper tracks the various iterative responses that were generated through my thinking-making with Erin Manning’s keynote address entitled Radical Pedagogy as an attunement to what seeds a thinking in the act that was delivered at the 1…
View article: Why Walking the Common is more than a Walk in the Park
Why Walking the Common is more than a Walk in the Park Open
For the past few years, as concerned academics and educators in South African higher education, we have come together to meet/think/drink coffee/eat/discuss our research and teaching practices in a coffee shop that overlooks the Rondebosch…
View article: Just(ice) Do It! Re-membering the Past through co-Affective Aesthetic Encounters with Art/ History
Just(ice) Do It! Re-membering the Past through co-Affective Aesthetic Encounters with Art/ History Open
The article explores the possibilities of reconfiguring an Extended Curriculum Programme's history of art and design curriculum in a South African university of technology and examines whether critical arts-based pedagogical encounters can…