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View article: Visuals Speaking the Unspoken as a Tool for Future Care
Visuals Speaking the Unspoken as a Tool for Future Care Open
In this article we describe the creation and usefulness of an art-making community initiative that has become a visual teaching tool to help rethink and challenge normalized practices in Obstetrics. The visuals are promoting more caring sp…
View article: WIP: Adaptive Design Engineering to Enable People With Disabilities in the University Setting
WIP: Adaptive Design Engineering to Enable People With Disabilities in the University Setting Open
Limitations in mobility present a substantial barrier to activities involved with research and academia tasks in STEM including typing, writing, and laptop access and storage. Although the ADA was passed nearly 20 years ago, people with di…
View article: Diverse by Design: Increasing the Representation of People with Disabilities in STEM through Community Engagement
Diverse by Design: Increasing the Representation of People with Disabilities in STEM through Community Engagement Open
In this work, outcomes are presented from a pilot study course in biomedical engineering.A total of 16 undergraduate and graduate students in STEM-related fields were registered for the course on its first offering.The students were organi…
View article: Crafting Medical Education Differently: An Innovative Pedagogical Approach to Enhance Deep Learning in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Crafting Medical Education Differently: An Innovative Pedagogical Approach to Enhance Deep Learning in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Open
In this article we explore an innovative pedagogical approach initiated during the COVID-19 lockdown period to support student learning in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town. Student…
View article: Participatory Relationships Matter: Doctoral Students Traversing the Academy
Participatory Relationships Matter: Doctoral Students Traversing the Academy Open
In this article, we take our thoughts for a walk through our three different doctoral journeys and experiences with the Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry Webinar Series (2020–2021). The webinars presented an example of Slow schola…
View article: Un/thinking with Thread/s: Needling Through Boundaries Related to COVID-19 and Medical Training
Un/thinking with Thread/s: Needling Through Boundaries Related to COVID-19 and Medical Training Open
This article draws on my connection with sewing threads, and explores how the 2020 Massive Microscopic Sensemaking (MMS) online challenge contributed to an emergent entanglement of timespacemattering related to COVID-19, teaching and resea…
View article: Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage: The reproduction of the obstetric subject and its racialised (m)other
Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage: The reproduction of the obstetric subject and its racialised (m)other Open
Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how the obstetric institution can still be considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- and necropolitics and patriarchal subjectivi…
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: Affective assemblages matter in socially just pedagogies
Affective assemblages matter in socially just pedagogies Open
Social justice in higher education is a core concern in South Africa. It involves matters of pedagogy, curriculum, recognition, as well as access to tertiary institutions. In light of the massification of higher education, the question tha…
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: Risks and Rewards in Sexual and Gender Minority Teaching and Learning in a South African Health Sciences Medical Curriculum
Risks and Rewards in Sexual and Gender Minority Teaching and Learning in a South African Health Sciences Medical Curriculum Open
The wellbeing of sexual and gender minorities (SGM) is undermined by widespread homophobia that extends to health systems, and is exacerbated by medical curricula underrepresenting the health needs of this key population group. In 2012, un…
View article: Diffracting reflection: a move beyond reflective practice
Diffracting reflection: a move beyond reflective practice Open
Reflective practice has become a core component in higher education studies. In the health sciences, reflective tasks are required throughout the undergraduate programmes, yet many students struggle to find value in these tasks for their p…
View article: Developing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through a Community of Enquiry
Developing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through a Community of Enquiry Open
A growing interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in higher education
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View article: Moving beyond excuses: Confronting disrespect in Obstetrics
Moving beyond excuses: Confronting disrespect in Obstetrics Open
This teaching and learning resource aims to promote a socially just pedagogy in Obstetrics. It provides a collection of images, videos and tools to acknowledge different practices. The intention is to illustrate the value of engaging with …
View article: Understanding Primary Health Care
Understanding Primary Health Care Open
This resource could be useful to all Health Science students and educators who seek to learn or teach the basics of Primary Health Care (PHC). It aims to promote an understanding of the complex components of PHC.
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