Books by Curwyn Mapaling
SA Freelance Media Industry and Rates Report 2019/2020, 2020
The 2019/2020 SAFREA Freelance Media Industry and Rates report expands an understanding of the So... more The 2019/2020 SAFREA Freelance Media Industry and Rates report expands an understanding of the South African freelancing market by considering how various issues affect freelance income and demographic groups, including women and black media and communication workers.
The 2020/2021 survey reveals specific insights that have emerged year-on-year because of the major collapse of specific segments of the market – notably the magazine sector due to Covid-19. As one of the most vulnerable labour segments, freelancers have been subject to temporary closures, closures, reduced hours, delayed payments or mandatory cuts in freelance invoices across all media. Retrenchments at major media companies may drive an unspecified number of media workers into the freelance market and the media ‘gig economy’.
Papers by Curwyn Mapaling
Given the recent emphasis on the need for educational reform in the rapidly changing global conte... more Given the recent emphasis on the need for educational reform in the rapidly changing global context the researcher chose to establish the current state of knowledge and research regarding humanising pedagogy. Both national and international journal articles on qualitative and quantitative research studies, as well as unpublished reports, doctoral theses, and conference papers that were published between 1st January 2003 and 31st December 2013 were included in order to provide a comprehensive picture of the relevant research literature. The methodology used to identify, organise, synthesise, and describe the published literature employed a combined integrative and contextual focus which provided a comprehensive description, analysis, and evaluation of the present state of knowledge regarding humanising pedagogy. The study identified that no randomised, controlled or experimental studies had been conducted and only a limited number of mainly conceptual articles had been published duri...
Progressio: South African Journal for Open and Distance Learning Practice, 2019
Higher education in South Africa is in an era that demands a new lens and theoretical clarity to ... more Higher education in South Africa is in an era that demands a new lens and theoretical clarity to inform how we grow the collective identity of 21st century African students with a framework that is grounded in the following two questions, “Who am I/are we in this context and how can I/we contribute to the knowledge base in higher education?” Through this paper, we would like to position the conversation by addressing theoretical aspects of a humanising pedagogy, Afrocentricity and Ubuntu, within South African higher education learning communities. We argue in this positional paper that a Relational Centred Framework for Afrocentric Learning Communities will add to the complexity of the search for our African identity, also referred to as African ways of being, in higher education, especially for South African students in the post #FeesMustFall context.
First-person narratives of suicidal behavior may provide novel insights into how individuals with... more First-person narratives of suicidal behavior may provide novel insights into how individuals with lived experience of suicide understand and narrate their behavior. Our aim was to explore the narratives of young men hospitalized following nonfatal suicidal behavior (NFSB), in order to understand how young suicidal men construct and understand their actions. Data were collected via narrative interviews with 14 men (aged 18–34 years) admitted to hospital following an act of NFSB in Cape Town, South Africa. Narrative analysis was used to analyze the data. Two dominant narratives emerged in which participants drew on tropes of the “great escape” and “heroic resistance,” performing elements of hegemonic masculinity in the way they narrated their experiences. Participants position themselves as rational heroic agents and present their suicidal behavior as goal-directed action to solve problems, assert control, and enact resistance. This dominant narrative is incongruent with the mainstrea...
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Books by Curwyn Mapaling
The 2020/2021 survey reveals specific insights that have emerged year-on-year because of the major collapse of specific segments of the market – notably the magazine sector due to Covid-19. As one of the most vulnerable labour segments, freelancers have been subject to temporary closures, closures, reduced hours, delayed payments or mandatory cuts in freelance invoices across all media. Retrenchments at major media companies may drive an unspecified number of media workers into the freelance market and the media ‘gig economy’.
Papers by Curwyn Mapaling
The 2020/2021 survey reveals specific insights that have emerged year-on-year because of the major collapse of specific segments of the market – notably the magazine sector due to Covid-19. As one of the most vulnerable labour segments, freelancers have been subject to temporary closures, closures, reduced hours, delayed payments or mandatory cuts in freelance invoices across all media. Retrenchments at major media companies may drive an unspecified number of media workers into the freelance market and the media ‘gig economy’.