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Investigating pathways for advancing the technological literacy of art lecturers and students in selected tertiary institutions in Lagos State, Nigeria.
(University of the Western Cape, 2025) Ajayi, Noah Oluwasanjo
In the twenty-first century, digital technology is forging a strong coalition with creative processes in Art and Design Education (A&DEd), allowing for dynamic interaction with systems and objects. Art and Design teacher educators must constantly assess the influence of their interactions and engagement with digital technology in many educational teaching and learning settings. Art and Design teacher educators need to blend new media technologies with traditional materials, while not elevating one above the other. This research explored the teaching and learning pathways for advancing the technological literacy of arts lecturers and students in selected tertiary institutions in Lagos State, Nigeria. It reflected on sociological aspects and considered digital technological learning environments that support the creative usage of digital technology in A&DEd teaching and learning, and how these pathways could create innovative practices for new ways of imagining, perceiving, and representing in Art and Design Education.
Substrate blockchain-enabled interplanetary file system for distributed data storage
(University of the Western Cape, 2025) Nododile, Thandile
Distributed data storage systems are vital in the era of expanding data across various applications. Industries like finance, healthcare, and the Internet of Things (IoT) require efficient management of vast and significantly growing data. Traditional centralised storage systems face challenges in scalability, security, and availability. They’re prone to bottlenecks, cyber-attacks, and data loss together with latency during network failures. These limitations significantly impact the reliability and efficiency of data storage, making them unsuitable for critical IoT applications where real-time data access and integrity are important.
Interrogating the “Subalternising Potential” of Article 13(b) of Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
(University of the Western Cape, 2024) Mbadlanyana, Thembani Lucius
This study problematises and critically interrogates the provisions of the Rome Statute— particularly those relating to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) referral of non-party states to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The study’s preoccupation is on the different ways through which ICC may become seized with jurisdiction over a situation under the Rome Statute. But more importantly, the study casts some critical light on the different “regimes” of co-operation under the Rome Statute. Using the Rome Statute as a “metaphoric” door through which to enter the scholarly debates and discourse on the history, current realities and future outlook of international criminal law; the ultimate goal is to disinter and critically interrogate the ICC’s jurisdiction mechanisms and what seem to be the “subalternsing potential” of Article 13(b) of the Rome Statute.
Expert performance in exodontia – redesigning an exodontia block course using deliberate practice as a teaching strategy
(University of the Western Cape, 2025) Behardien, Nashreen
The education and training in exodontia, an important part of dental education, teaches how to extract a tooth indicated for removal for a number of reasons, primarily to treat pain and sepsis. Dental extraction requires basic core competencies that reduce surgical intervention, patient morbidity, healing time, and return to function, thus benefitting the economy. Deliberate practice helps to build skills and expertise. Deliberate practice has, however, not been used in oral surgery training. The aim of this study was to redesign an Exodontia Block Course by including deliberate practice as a teaching and learning strategy. A qualitative research study using a two-phased approach was conducted. Phase One consisted of two stages and endeavoured to explore the applications of deliberate practice in health professions education using a systematic review and to evaluate the traditional course that is used to teach the skill of tooth extraction (exodontia). There were 30 participants in Phase One. Phase Two, the redesign phase, built on the findings of Phase One and comprised 33 participants. Phase Two involved a consensus workshop consisting of three rounds. Round 1 was a pilot study, Round 2 comprised a panel of experts who were academics in the field of dental and general education, and Round 3 included a panel of stakeholders consisting of students and clinical teachers. The findings of the study highlighted areas for improvement in the traditional exodontia course in respect of the curriculum elements of the course objectives, content, teaching and learning strategies, assessment, and clinical teaching and training.
Five shaky pillars – a criticism of the reasoning on which the stay at South Point properties v Mqulwana (SCA) decision rests
(North-West Unversity, 2025) Fick, Sarah
In July 2023 in the case of Stay at South Point Properties (Pty) Ltd v Mqulwana the Supreme Court of Appeal (the SCA) found that student accommodation does not constitute a "home" in terms of section 26(3) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (hereafter the Constitution). Section 26(3) of the Constitution provides that "[n]o one may be evicted from their home … without an order of court made after considering all the relevant circumstances." The students' "residence" was not their "home". This meant that they could not rely on the protection provided by section 26(3) of the Constitution or the legislation giving effect to this right, the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act 19 of 1998 (hereafter PIE). This note identifies five shaky pillars that the decision rests on and argues that these pillars may be too weak to uphold the judgment. Importantly, the note does not aim to determine whether a residence should in fact be considered a home. Rather the note intends to highlight the problems with the reasoning of the court in coming to its conclusion.