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“Don’t they know how important it is?” A case study of information literacy education in a small South African town
(International Association of School Librarianship, 2006)
The paper comes out of a month-long case study of information literacy education in two public libraries in a small South African town in the rural province of Mpumalanga, undertaken in October 2004. The participant ...
Service learning in a course in children's & youth library & information services: a case study
(Community High Education Service Partnership, 2008)
The case study describes a service learning project in Library and Information
Science. In 2002, 14 students enrolled for the service learning elective – the 4th year
second semester module, Children’s and Youth Library ...
The LPYL in context: changing minds about school libraries in South Africa
(Bibliotek I Samhalle (BIS), 2002)
It is an honour to write a foreword for the Bibliotek I Samehälle's book on the Library
Practice for Young Learners project (LPYL) - and also a challenge. The "honour" is
due to the significance of the LPYL project, which ...
The taint of the censor: J.M. Coetzee and the making of In the Heart of the Country
(Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, 2008)
With the publication of In the Heart of the Country by the London publisher Secker & Warburg in 1977, J. M. Coetzee had achieved international recognition for his second novel, transcending the narrow national literary ...
Ten years of democracy: attitudes and identity among some South African school children
(Stellenbosch University, 2004)
Ten years into South Africa’s democracy, how do school children feel about themselves as
part of specific groups, and what is the role of language in their socio-cultural identities?
This paper looks at the ways in which ...
Incomplete histories: Steve Biko, the politics of self-writing and the apparatus of reading
(Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 2004)
This paper gathers together deliberations surrounding Steve Biko’s I Write What I Like
as it simultaneously registers the critical importance of the text as an incomplete history.
Rather than presupposing the text as a ...
Readiness to adopt e-learning: pioneering a course in school librarianship education
(Library and Information Association of South Africa, 2009)
E-learning has come of age in South African higher education but scepticism, caution and an inadequate reward system for innovative teaching methods have resulted in a slow uptake by academics. Within this milieu the author ...
'Language has a heart': linguistic markers of evaluation in selected TRC testimonies
(Taylor & Francis, 2008)
This paper explores how two testifiers at the Human Rights Violation hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996 used selected markers of evaluation (shifts in tense, the inclusion of direct ...
Alternative perspectives on orality, literacy and education: a view from South Africa.
(Routledge, 2001)
The question of the 'great divide' between orality and literacy has been critically addressed by various scholars of literacy, including social literacy theorists. This paper uses the notions of primary and secondary ...
The recycling industry and subsistence waste collectors: a case study of Mitchell's Plain
(Springer, 2007)
The article reflects the findings of a survey undertaken in Mitchell’s Plain and presents a case study of the factors that impact recycle-related employment tendencies and opportunities in the area of the Cape Flats in ...