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Evaluation of assessment skills using essay rubrics in student self-grading at first year level in higher education: a case study
(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2018)
This paper reports on a study in which students self-graded an assessment task with the aid of an assessment rubric. On comparing student selfgrades with those of the tutor it was found that majority (72.6%) of the students ...
Facing the stranger in the mirror: Staged complicities in recent South African performances
(Routledge, 2011)
The staging of complicity has developed into one of the most prevalent trends in
recent South Africa theatre. The audience may become aware of their own
complicity in injustice, or complicity may feature as a subject to ...
Little perpetrators, witness-bearers and the young and the brave: towards a post-transitional aesthetics
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)
The aesthetic choices characterizing work produced during the transition to democracy have
been well documented. We are currently well into the second decade after the 1994 election -
what then of the period referred to ...
The everyday experience of xenophobia: performing The Crossing from Zimbabwe to South Africa
(RoutledgeUNISA Press, 2010)
Debates on the underlying causes of xenophobia in South Africa have proliferated since
the attacks -between March and May 2008. Our article shows how exploring the everyday
'ordinariness' of xenophobia as performance can ...
'A glimpse into Bushman mythology': interpretation, power and knowledge
(Routledge, 2017)
In 1873, Qing, a young man of Bushman background, recounted a cycle of stories and
commented on some of the rock paintings he and the magistrate Joseph Orpen saw on a
journey through the Maloti mountains. A year later ...
Oral literature in South Africa: 20 years on
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
I offer a retrospective on the field of orality and performance studies in South Africa from the perspective of 2016, assessing what has been achieved, what may have happened inadvertently or worryingly, what some of the ...
The pregnant man: race, difference and subjectivity in Alan Paton’s Kalahari writing
(Taylor & Francis, co-published with Unisa Press, 2010)
In South African imaginative writing and scholarly research, there is currently an extensive
and wide-ranging interest in the ‘Bushman’, either as a tragic figure of colonial history, as
a contested site of misrepresentation, ...
To Write Liberty
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
The keynote for the International Conference, Writing for Liberty, held in Cape Town in 2017
is a response to the contradictory demands made on writers: to respond to the suffering in the
world and to refrain from ...
What lies beneath: exploring the deeper purposes of feedback on student writing through considering disciplinary knowledge and knowers
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Feedback plays an integral role in students’ learning and development, as it is often the only personal communication that students have with tutors or lecturers about their own work. Yet, in spite of its integral role in ...
Reading for hope: a conversation about texts and method
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
In a conversation about their shared interests, the authors discuss methodology, reading strategies, and comparative historiographies relating to the recuperation of residues of hope that linger in the wake of failed ...