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Empowering young people in advocacy for transformation: A photovoice exploration of safe and unsafe spaces on a university campus
(UNISA, 2015)
Globally and locally, research conducted with young people about safety on university campuses
focuses primarily on risk and danger, particularly sexual danger. In this body of scholarship, the
voices of young people are ...
Multilingualism and (bi)literacy development for epistemological access: Exploring students experience in the use of multilingual glossaries at a South African university
(NMMU, 2018)
This paper reports on the findings of a research project that investigated first-year students’ experiences in using multilingual glossaries. They were enrolled in an electrical engineering course at a higher education ...
Commodification of transformation discourses and post-apartheid institutional identities at three South African universities
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Using mission statements from the UCT, UWC and Stellenbosch University (South Africa), we explore how the three universities have rematerialised prior discourses to rebrand their identities as dictated by contemporary ...
Libraries and a “Better Life for All”: The politics, processes, and promises of the South African LIS Transformation Charter
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims
for the role of libraries in democracy; and, on the twenty-first anniversary
of democracy in South Africa, it is an opportune moment to
examine the rather ...
South Africa’s LIS Transformation Charter: policies, politics and professionals
(IFLA, 2014)
The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims for the role of libraries in
democracy; and, on the 20-year anniversary of the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, it is
an opportune moment to ...
Complicit refugees, cosmopolitans and xenophobia: Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner' and Romesh Gunesekera's 'Reef' in conversation with texts on xenophobia in South Africa
(Common Ground, 2008)
In the aftermath of the brutal xenophobic attacks in parts of South Africa against 'other' Africans between March
and May this year, a fairly sustained (if repetitive) public debate has emerged in the local press. The aim ...
Factors influencing the sustainability of university centres promoting multilingualism in South Africa
(HESA; Unisa Press, 2004)
The main question addressed by this article is: How can multilingual language
centres based at universities ensure their long term sustainability? Research was
carried out at three centres in the Western Cape to find the ...
Introduction and decolonial pedagogies, multilingualism and literacies
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This Special Issue of Multilingual
Margins brings together a
number of creative, reflective
and academic writings and artefacts
that emerged from a new interinstitutional
postgraduate module,
Re-imagining Multilingualisms, ...