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Reimagining Writing Centres Practices: A South African Perspective
Get PDFIn light of the changing face and internationalisation of our student body and their concomitant needs, this book attempts to foreground both the strides made in the field, as well as the important questions and debates confronting writing centre practitioners in the South African higher education arena. The latter demands that we review and reimagine the support we currently provide. Reimaging, however, forces us to wrestle with the challenges that are inherent in work of this nature and to be vocal about the difficult questions that must be asked and answered if we want to provide socially just solutions to our students’ writing challenges. The onset of COVID-19 also imposed on our daily practices and required a hasty re-evaluation of our service provision.
The aim of this volume is to further conversations and research on the notion of the internationalisation of writing centres and the necessity to focus on the key issues of multilingualism, discipline-based writing, social justice, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as specialised consultant/tutor training. Writing centres at South African universities have established themselves as fundamental to the support and development of our students. Thus, the time is ripe for us as writing centre practitioners in the South African context to continue writing our own writing centre narrative, grapple with context-specific issues and questions, and provide context-specific answers and solutions that speak to the lived realities of our students. We hope to achieve this through this book
Food for Academic Thought
Get PDF"In a \u27spoon in cheek\u27 manner, I can honestly say this is a cookbook that the wizards at the National Roasting Foundation will approve of. In fact, this is so off the scale that their top chef rating of A1 cannot be applied. In all probability, they will have to create a brand-new rating category because if not, their whole system will go pear-shaped. I say this because FOOD FOR ACADEMIC THOUGHT is a transdisciplinary alchemy like no other – a cure for all ivory tower diseases – both known and unknown. This is the case because it is underpinned by \u27vreetsaamheid\u27, a theoretical framing that has the potential to rival that old Education Faculty Favourite, Bronfenbrenner, as a cure for all things \u27angazi\u27 that we have to have to ingest and digest continuously. But I digress. In all dishonesty, I did try concocting some of the concoctions the Department of SMTKS EDUCATION are peddling in this book. And as a double-blind reviewer, it made me appreciate, from the start, the raw data that was used to arrive at the main findings. Without wanting to sound saucy, the findings were definitely fish or flesh or something else. This book, which I know will bring in sweet subsidies, deserves, in my view, to be used as the prescribed book for all functions, fiestas, fetes, funerals, fits, fergaderings, festivities and all other Faculty occasions serving food."
Prof Johan WassermanHoD Humanities Educatio
Institutional Curiosity
Get PDFThis is the first collection of writing by various academics from the University of Pretoria about reimagining the University and how it may look in the future. Re-imaging the institution requires novel ways of thinking and engaging in debates about change, continuity, knowledge and excellence. These opinion pieces, thoughts and reflections about the University were shared by staff members and other collections will be published as contributions are received
Institutional Curiosity
Get PDFThis is the first collection of writing by various academics from the University of Pretoria about reimagining the University and how it may look in the future. Re-imaging the institution requires novel ways of thinking and engaging in debates about change, continuity, knowledge and excellence. These opinion pieces, thoughts and reflections about the University were shared by staff members and other collections will be published as contributions are received
Tangible Heritage Conservation: Three years of success towards changing the context of African conservation
Get PDFThe Tangible Heritage Conservation programme is based at the School of the Arts and within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria (UP). This is the first such programme offered at a university in sub-Saharan Africa and was inaugurated in 2019. It’s launch is the culmination of many years of developments which converged at the proverbial ‘right place at the right time’.
In this publication, the first three years of the Master’s programme in Tangible Heritage Conservation are documented through three annual reports, curriculum layouts, and photographs. It outlines the coursework that forms part of the programme and explains how the programme was taught during the COVID-19 pandemic. The book also includes a selection of students’ assignments, showcasing the research skills developed through the course
HumanEATies 100 Recipes
No full textThe Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria (UP) published this cookbook to celebrate its 100 anniversary.
HumanEATies is a cookbook, not a recipe book, as it has academic resonance, and is not a mere collection of recipes. Like many academic endeavours, it is a transdisciplinary project, with all the recipes tested by final-year Hospitality and Consumer Food Sciences students in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.
The idea for this cookbook was born, of course, while eating, specifically while enjoying breakfast with staff from the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Who knew that from those first tentative conversations, a creation of such deliciousness would emerge from our colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities? Many of these recipes were sourced during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown when cooking and baking seemed to present a welcome distraction from the uncertainties going on in the world. With this publication, the Faculty of Humanities has shown that there is more to being an academic than just teaching and research and that some wonderfully creative foodies are occupying our spaces.
Inherited Obsessions
Get PDFEnjoy the thought-provoking project, "Inherited Obsessions: Conversations with an Exhibition," a prize-winning publication that explores the complexities of culture and heritage in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Edited by Dr Laura de Harde, this book won the prestigious 2023 HSS Awards for Best Exhibition Catalogue.
A key outcome of her Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Dr de Harde initiated collaborations with institutions like the University of Pretoria and the Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History. She engaged in meaningful conversations with Ditsong\u27s curator of anthropology and co-curator of the exhibition, Motsane Gertrude Seabela. These discussions formed the foundation of the Inherited Obsessions exhibition, unveiled on Heritage Day, September 24, 2022, at Ditsong.
The exhibition became a platform to explore the weight of inherited legacies. The contributing authors unpack these conversations in the publication, offering readers a deeper understanding of our relationship to historical objects and their impact on the present.
Through nine engaging chapters and a captivating visual essay showcasing the artworks included in the exhibition, the publication invites readers to contemplate the enduring significance of cultural heritage. By highlighting our shared history, the book encourages us to reflect on the complexities of our past and consider how it may shape our present and future
Inherited Obsessions
Get PDFEnjoy the thought-provoking project, "Inherited Obsessions: Conversations with an Exhibition," a prize-winning publication that explores the complexities of culture and heritage in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Edited by Dr Laura de Harde, this book won the prestigious 2023 HSS Awards for Best Exhibition Catalogue.
A key outcome of her Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Dr de Harde initiated collaborations with institutions like the University of Pretoria and the Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History. She engaged in meaningful conversations with Ditsong\u27s curator of anthropology and co-curator of the exhibition, Motsane Gertrude Seabela. These discussions formed the foundation of the Inherited Obsessions exhibition, unveiled on Heritage Day, September 24, 2022, at Ditsong.
The exhibition became a platform to explore the weight of inherited legacies. The contributing authors unpack these conversations in the publication, offering readers a deeper understanding of our relationship to historical objects and their impact on the present.
Through nine engaging chapters and a captivating visual essay showcasing the artworks included in the exhibition, the publication invites readers to contemplate the enduring significance of cultural heritage. By highlighting our shared history, the book encourages us to reflect on the complexities of our past and consider how it may shape our present and future
Inherited Obsessions
Get PDFEnjoy the thought-provoking project, "Inherited Obsessions: Conversations with an Exhibition," a prize-winning publication that explores the complexities of culture and heritage in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Edited by Dr Laura de Harde, this book won the prestigious 2023 HSS Awards for Best Exhibition Catalogue.
A key outcome of her Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Dr de Harde initiated collaborations with institutions like the University of Pretoria and the Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History. She engaged in meaningful conversations with Ditsong\u27s curator of anthropology and co-curator of the exhibition, Motsane Gertrude Seabela. These discussions formed the foundation of the Inherited Obsessions exhibition, unveiled on Heritage Day, September 24, 2022, at Ditsong.
The exhibition became a platform to explore the weight of inherited legacies. The contributing authors unpack these conversations in the publication, offering readers a deeper understanding of our relationship to historical objects and their impact on the present.
Through nine engaging chapters and a captivating visual essay showcasing the artworks included in the exhibition, the publication invites readers to contemplate the enduring significance of cultural heritage. By highlighting our shared history, the book encourages us to reflect on the complexities of our past and consider how it may shape our present and future
Inherited Obsessions
Get PDFEnjoy the thought-provoking project, "Inherited Obsessions: Conversations with an Exhibition," a prize-winning publication that explores the complexities of culture and heritage in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Edited by Dr Laura de Harde, this book won the prestigious 2023 HSS Awards for Best Exhibition Catalogue.
A key outcome of her Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Dr de Harde initiated collaborations with institutions like the University of Pretoria and the Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History. She engaged in meaningful conversations with Ditsong\u27s curator of anthropology and co-curator of the exhibition, Motsane Gertrude Seabela. These discussions formed the foundation of the Inherited Obsessions exhibition, unveiled on Heritage Day, September 24, 2022, at Ditsong.
The exhibition became a platform to explore the weight of inherited legacies. The contributing authors unpack these conversations in the publication, offering readers a deeper understanding of our relationship to historical objects and their impact on the present.
Through nine engaging chapters and a captivating visual essay showcasing the artworks included in the exhibition, the publication invites readers to contemplate the enduring significance of cultural heritage. By highlighting our shared history, the book encourages us to reflect on the complexities of our past and consider how it may shape our present and future