This year’s successful conference opened by Professor Catherine Kell, Director of the School of Education at UCT, provided inspiration, subjects for debate and a wealth of relevant research on Literacy Education, including digital literacy. See some photos below
Friday 12 July
Xolisa Guzula introduces UCT choir for Africa
Learners share the importance of their reading club
Powerful multilingual poetry reading with Antjie Krog, Ncedile Saule and Sindiwe Magona
Saturday 13 July
Keynote by Professor Leketi Makalela on ‘Ubuntu translanguaging: Towards a multilingual literacy education in a rapidly changing world’
Sunday – 14 July 2019
The keynote address was presented by Dr Brian Ramadiro on the ‘Futures of literacy in African languages’
Dr Ramadiro being introduced by Xolisa Guzula
Colloquium: ‘Digital tech-nologies, literacy and language: ‘cruel optimism’, simple pragmatism or unintended consequences?’
Chaired by Professor Catherine Kell with presenters Amani Khensani-Manganyi, Ed Campbell and Orrie Staschen
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