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Ms Joanne Hardman

Lecturer; learning and cognition; developmental psychology; Sociocultural Activity theory; computer assisted learning and teaching; cognitive neuroscience
Dr Heather Jacklin

Senior lecturer; The relationship between the pedagogic device and the broader contexts of the school, education system and society

Associate Professor Rüdiger Laugksch

Scientific literacy or public understanding of science; professional development of science teachers; policy issues related to the provision of teaching and learning in the natural sciences; teaching and learning in biology

Dr Karen Malan

Senior lecturer; language acquisition; early literacy; discourse and genre knowledge; narrative analysis

Professor Johan Muller

Curriculum studies; epistemology; sociology of knowledge; school reform; higher education policy

Dr Emmanuel Mushayikwa

Project Manager; self-directed professional development; continuing professional development of teachers and INSET; ICT, and pupils’ attitudes to science

Dr Mastin Prinsloo

Senior lecturer; literacy as situated social practice

Associate Professor Kevin Rochford

Research capacity building; science, mathematics and technology education; creative and innovative teaching methods; integrated and cross-curricular learning; fieldwork experiential learning; students with learning difficulties, disadvantages and disabilities; the nature and practice of inspirational teaching; quantitative research methodology

Associate Professor Rob Siebörger

History education; curriculum studies; assessment; materials development; teacher education

Professor Crain Soudien

Sociology of education; race, class and gender; policy shifts in education; museum and heritage education

Research Associates
Professor David Donald

Educational psychology; education support; special needs in education; issues in child development under Southern African social conditions; child development interventions: project design and evaluation

Distinguished Visitors
Professor Dwight W. Allen

Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA

Anders Breidlid

Faculty of Education, Oslo University College, Norway

Professor Wilfred Carr

School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK

Associate Professor Pam Christie

School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Robert Guyver

College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UK

Dr Cynthia Joseph

Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia

Dr Geoff Quick

Lansing Community College, Lansing, Michigan, USA

Gordon Ruberts

Faculty of Education, University of Oulu, Finland

Contact Details

Postal Address: School of Education, University of Cape Town,

Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701

Telephone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/educate/

Research Output
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Adler, J. and Davis, Z. 2006. Opening another black box: Researching mathematics for teaching in mathematics teacher education. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 37(4): 270-296.
Aldridge, J.M., Laugksch, R.C. and Fraser, B.J. 2006. School-level environment and outcomes-based education in South Africa. Learning Environments Research, 9(2): 123-147.
Aldridge, J.M., Laugksch, R.C., Seopa, M.A. and Fraser, B.J. 2006. Development and validation of an instrument to monitor the implementation of outcomes-based learning environments in science classrooms in South Africa. International Journal of Science Education, 28(1): 45-70.
Bergh, A.-M. and Soudien, C.A. 2006. The institutionalization of comparative education discourses in South Africa in the 20th century. Southern African Review of Education, 12(2): 35-57.
Bolton, H. 2006. Pedagogy, subjectivity and mapping judgement in art, a weekly structured field of knowledge. Journal of Education, 40: 51-78.
Breier, M.H. 2006. 'In my case...': the recruitment and recognition of prior informal experience in adult pedagogy. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 27(2): 173 - 188.
Dryden-Peterson, S. and Siebörger, R. 2006. Teachers as memory makers: Testimony in the making of a new history in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, 26(4): 394-403.
Hoadley, U.K. 2006. Analysing pedagogy: The problem of framing. Journal of Education, 40: 15-34.
Kariuki, C.W. 2006. "She is a woman after all": Patriarchy and female educational leadership in Kenya. Postamble, 2(2): 65-74.
Rochford, K. 2006. The UICEE - Cape Town' pillar of science, engineering and technology education research: 1989-2006. Global Journal of Engineering Education, 10(1): 85-93.
Rochford, K. and Hodes, M.L. 2006. A comparison of the responses of science talent quest (Expo) students and research students in education to the question: Why am I doing research? World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, 5(1): 107-110.
Soudien, C.A. 2005. Racial discourse in the Commission on Native Education (Eiselen Commission), 1949-1951: The making of a 'Bantu' identity. Southern African Review of Education, 11: 41-57.
Soudien, C.A. 2006. Disaffected or displaced? A brief analysis of the reasons for academic failure amongst young South Africans. The International Journal on School Disaffection, 4(1): 1-13.
Soudien, C.A. 2006. The city, citizenship and education. Journal of Education, 40: 103-118.

BOOKS
Donald, D., Lazarus, S. and Lolwana, P. 2006. Educational psychology in social context, 3^rd ed: 1-354. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.
Young, M. and Gamble, J. (eds) 2006. Knowledge, curriculum and qualifications for South African further education: 1-162. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Ensor, M.P. 2006. Universities and the shaping of the Further Education and Training Certificate. In M. Young and J. Gamble (eds), Knowledge, curriculum and qualifications for further education: 126-142. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press.
Gamble, J. 2006. Theory and practice in the vocational curriculum. In M. Young and J. Gamble (eds), Knowledge, curriculum and qualifications for South African further education: 87-103. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press.
Gamble, J. 2006. What kind of knowledge for the vocational curriculum. In L. Mjelde and R. Daly (eds), Working knowledge in a globalizing world: 61-81. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang AG, International Academic Pub.
Gilmour, J.D., Soudien, C.A. and Donald, D. 2006. Post-apartheid policy and practice: Education reform in South Africa. In K. Masurek and M.A. Winzer (eds), Schooling around the world: Debates, challenges and practices: 327-339. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.
Muller, J.P. 2006. Differentiation and progression in the curriculum. In M. Young and J. Gamble (eds), Knowledge, curriculum and qualifications for South African further education: 66-85. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press.
Muller, J.P. 2006. Differentiation and progression in the curriculum. In M. Young and J. Gamble (eds), Knowledge, curriculum and qualifications for South African further education: 66-86. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press.
Muller, J.P. 2006. On the shoulders of giants: Verticality of knowledge and the school curriculum. In R. Moore, M. Arnot, J. Beck and H. Daniels (eds), Knowledge, power and educational reform applying the sociology of Basil Bernstein: 11-27. New York: Routledge Falmer.
Muller, J.P., Maassen, P. and Cloete, N. 2006. Modes of governance and the limits of policy. In N. Cloete, P. Maassen, R. Fehnel, T. Moja, T. Gibbon and H. Perold (eds), Transformation in higher education: 289-310. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Siebörger, R. 2006. Dale, Sir Langham (1826-1898), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition, Oxford University Press, May 2006. [Online] http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61105.
Siebörger, R. 2006. The dynamics of history textbook production during South Africa's educational transformation. In S.J. Foster and K.A. Crawford (eds), What shall we tell the children? International perspectives on school history textbooks: 227-243. Connecticut: Information Age Publishing.
Soudien, C.A. and Baxen, M.J. 2006. Disability and schooling in South Africa. In B. Watermeyer, L. Swartz, T. Lorenzo, M. Schneider and M. Priestly (eds), Disability and social change: A South African agenda: 149-163. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press.
Young, M. and Gamble, J. 2006. Introduction: Setting a context for debates about the senior secondary curriculum. In M. Young and J. Gamble (eds), Knowledge, curriculum and qualifications for South African further education: 1-15. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press.

Peer-Reviewed Published Conference Proceedings
Adler, J. and Davis, Z. 2006. Imaginary-symbolic relations, pedagogic resources and the constitution of mathematics for teaching in in-service mathematics teacher education. In J. Novotna, H. Moraova, M. Kratka and N. Stehlikova (eds), Proceedings of the 30th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME), 16-21 July 2006, Prague, Czech Republic, Vol. 2: 9-16. ISSN 0771 100X.
Adler, J. and Davis, Z. 2006. Studying mathematics for teaching inside teacher education. In E. Gaigher, L. Goosen and R. de Villiers (eds), Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the South African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (SAARMSTE), 9-12 January 2006, Pretoria, South Africa, 160-165. ISBN 0-620-35513-1.
Hodes, M.L. 2006. An innovative global apprenticeship for the technical training of farriers and saddlers in the new South Africa, and its educational outcomes. In Z.J. Pudlowski (ed.), Proceedings of the 9th UICEE Annual Conference on Engineering Education, 11-15 February 2006, Muscat, Oman. UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education, Monash University, Australia, 183-186. ISBN 0-7326-229-5.
Tredoux, M. and Rochford, K. 2006. An evaluation of the educational impact of the EarthWise geoscience project on a disadvantaged rural community in South Africa. In Z.J. Pudlowski (ed.), Proceedings of the 5th Global Congress on Engineering Education, 17-21 July 2006, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 277-280. ISBN 0-7326-2295-6.
Webb, P., Ogunniyi, M., Sadeck, M., Rochford, K., Dlamini, E. and Mosimege, M. 2006. A comparison of educators' understandings about cosmology, healing and natural phenomena based on scientific and personal beliefs. In E. Gaigher, L. Goosen and R. de Villiers (eds), Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (SAARMSTE), 9-12 January 2006, Pretoria, South Africa, 713-720. ISBN 0-620-35513-1.

NON PEER-REVIEWED PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Jaffer, K., Ouma, G., Mwepu, D., Manima, L., Daniels, A. and Holtman, L. (eds) 2006. Proceedings of the Education Students’ 6^th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape, 27-28 October: 1-31.

Books: Non Peer-Reviewed
Donald, D. 2005. Camp in the wild: Heinemann Values in Education series (Senior Phase): 1-48. Sandton: Heinemann.
Donald, D. 2005. Mandla and the street boys: Heinemann Values in Education Series (Intermediate Phase): 1-48. Sandton: Heinemann.
Donald, D. 2005. Tumelo's special mielie seeds: Heinemann Values in Education Series (Intermediate Phase): 1-48. Oxford: Heinemann.
Donald, D. 2005. Two stories with one beginning: Heinemann Values in Education Series (Senior Phase): 1-48. Sandton: Heinemann.
Roberts, A., Johnson, Y. and Jaffer, S. 2005. Maths for all: learners’ book grade 7: 1-351. Cape Town: Macmillan South Africa Publishers.
Roberts, A., Johnson, Y. and Jaffer, S. 2005. Maths for all: teachers’ book grade 7: 1-455. Cape Town: Macmillan South Africa Publishers.
Roberts, A., Johnson, Y. and Jaffer, S. 2005. Maths literacy for all: learners’ book grade 10: 1-274. Cape Town: Macmillan South Africa Publishers.
Roberts, A., Johnson, Y. and Jaffer, S. 2005. Maths literacy for all: teaching and assessment guide grade 10: 1-266. Cape Town: Macmillan South Africa Publishers.

PUBLISHED CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Davids, A.M. 2006. A comparative study of the perceived ways in which two modules of the 2005 BEd Honours course at UCT served to develop two educators in their professions. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students’ 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape: 8.
Duku, N. 2006. Outsider from within: Reflections on my field journey in my native/strange Eastern Cape research context. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students' 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape: 10.
Enosa, M. 2006. An investigation into factors associated with levels of achievement in the primary school leaving examination (PSLE) in mathematics and science in Southern Botswana. Abstracts of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education: 98-99.
Enosa, M. and Rochford, K. 2006. University students' responses to the question: "Why am I doing research? Abstracts of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology: 99-100.
Hendricks, P. 2006. Non-collaboration and the Teachers' Leaque of South Africa in the Western Cape: Theoretical and methodological issues. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students' 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape: 12.
Hodes, M.L. 2006. "Project African Dawn": appropriateequine skills technology apprenticeships for 'second chance' adult learners from the Cape Flats. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students' 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape: 13.
Hodes, M.L. 2006. "Project African Dawn": Transfer of 'appropriate skills technology' from Britain to South Africa. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Appropriate Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: 122.
Jawitz, J.P. 2006. Learning to judge student work in the academic workplace. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students' 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape: 14.
Lanka, M. 2006. Enhancing physics teachers' knowledge bases for teaching science process skills in senior secondary physics in Botswana. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students' 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape: 17.
Madzima, L. 2006. Home discourse and school discourse: the case in selected Zimbabwe secondary schools. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students' 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape:19.
Makhube, R.M. 2006. Utilization of educational resources by primary school learners during instruction. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students' 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape: 20.
Molefe, M.L. 2006. A comparative study of four life sciences projects in the 2006 Expo competition, with special reference to process skills and learning outcomes. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students' 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape: 22.
Ouma, G.W. 2006. Financing public universities in Kenya and South Africa: weakening resource dependence on state support. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students' 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape: 23.
Qanya, S. 2006. How do the Intermediate Phase (Grades 4-6) RNCS Natural Sciences textbooks explain selected concepts that relate to the key concept of the particle model of matter? A critical discourse analysis of selected natural sciences textbooks’ explanations of these concepts. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students’ 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape, 27-28 October: 24.
Rambe, P. 2006. Towards the development of an effective model for the sustainable use of ICTs in teaching and learning: A case study of the University and the University of Zimbabwe. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students' 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape: 25.
Rhugabar-Reddy, S. 2006. Crouching learners, hidden values: values in school mathematics and mathematical literacy education. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students’ 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape, 27-28 October: 26.
Small, J. 2006. Life-long learning at the University of Cape Town – ‘bringing the outside world inside’. In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students’ 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape, 27-28 October: 28.
Van Niekerk, S. 2006. Workers’ learning in the municipal workplace: who values it? In K. Jaffer, G. Ouma, D. Mwepu, L. Manima, A. Daniels and L. Holtman (eds), Proceedings of the Education Students’ 6th Annual Regional Research Conference, University of the Western Cape, 27-28 October: 29.

UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS OF A POPULAR NATURE
Prinsloo, M.H. 2006. Review: 'Urban Literacy: Communication, Identity and Learning in Development Contexts. International Journal of Educational Development, 27: 117-119.

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES
Abrahams, A. 2006. Examining knowledge, perceptions and experiences of HIV/AIDS by religious leaders and spiritual healers: 1- 88. MEd minor dissertation (Educational Administration, Planning and Social Policy).
Adonis, B. Z. 2006. An investigation into the experiences of some teachers in teaching about, and in the context of, HIV/AIDS: 1-99. MEd minor dissertation (Educational Administration, Planning and Social Policy).
Allen, S.J. 2006. An investigation of the phonological awareness skills of third grade Xhosa language speakers, with special reference to their levels of spelling and reading skills in English: 1:136. MEd minor dissertation (Applied Language and Literacy Studies).
Baxen, J. 2006. An analysis of the factors shaping teachers’ understanding of HIV/AIDS: 1-369. PhD.
Cole, J.E. 2006. Skills development training and its impact on employee self-image: a case study of employee responses to training in the wholesale and retail sector in the Western Cape: 1-114. MEd minor dissertation (Educational Administration, Planning and Social Policy).
Coleman, L. 2006. Web design discourse and access: a case study of student entry into a web design discourse in the multimedia technology programme at CPUT: 1-117. MPhil minor dissertation (Higher Education Studies).
Condy, J. 2006. The development of an enabling self-administered questionnaire for enhancing reading teachers’ professional pedagogical insights: 1-345. PhD.
Draper, G. 2006. The classroom of life: 1-114. MPhil minor dissertation (Higher Education Studies).
Duku, N. 2006. The exploration of African parents’ negotiation of their identities in school governance participation in six Eastern Cape communities. PhD.
Joubert, N. 2006. The classroom transferability of a university-based INSET programme of workshops in practical work for senior high school biology educators: 1-139. MEd minor dissertation (Science Education).
Fortuin, S. 2006. Investigating perspectives and practices of inclusion in primary schools: a case study: 1-152. MEd minor dissertation (Teaching).
Lombard, A.P. 2006. An investigation into the teaching and learning of shape and space concepts in the reception year: 1-117. MEd minor dissertation (Teaching).
Matsoso-Makhate, M.A. 2006. Performing masculinities and femininities: grade nine learners’ construction of sexual identities in the context of HIV: 1-98. MEd minor dissertation (Educational Administration, Planning and Social Policy).
Mbwanda, I.O. 2006. An investigation of students’ experiences of student-supervisor relationships at post-graduate level: 1-125. MPhil minor dissertation (Educational Administration, Planning and Social Policy).
Molelle, H.K. 2006. Global policy discourse and local implementation dynamics: a case study of Lesotho’s Junior Certificate Religious and Moral Education: 1-78. MEd minor dissertation (Educational Administration, Planning and Social Policy).
Mosito, C.P. 2006. Cognitive change in out-of-school learners in a Western Cape intervention programme: 1- 254. PhD.
Olckers, L.L. 2006. Judging essays: factors that influence markers: 1-94. MPhil minor dissertation (Higher Education Studies).
Seopa, M.A. 2006. Implementation of outcomes-based education in Grade 8 science in the Limpopo Province, South Africa: 1- 132. PhD.
Short, H. 2006. The use of inventories in student learning research: a case study: 1-82. MEd minor dissertation (Higher Education Studies).
Snaddon, B.R.A. 2006. Finding my woof by tweaking the warp: a personal account of an attempt to better understand learning in a communication design course: 1- 114. MEd minor dissertation (Teaching).
Tlale, L. 2006. An investigation into relationships between the academic performance of students and parental assistance in a Lesotho high school: 1-75. MPhil minor dissertation (Educational Administration, Planning and Social Policy).

CONSULTANCY AND OTHER ACTIVITIES BASED ON EXPERTISE DEVELOPED IN RESEARCH
Rochford, K. 2006. An evaluation of the super silly science game by postgraduate primary school teachers-in-training: 1-5. Report for the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA) of the National Research Foundation.
Rochford, K. 2006. Evaluation and critique of the Phat Physics game: 1-6. Report for the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA) of the National Research Foundation.
Rochford, K. 2006. Teaching principles of engineering, technology and science using innovative illustrations as resources: 1-6. Invited plenary paper presentation delivered at the Conference of the Critical Thinking Group and Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology and Mathematics Educators, Cape Peninsula University of Educators, Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

Department of English Language and Literature

Research Report 2006
(Including the Centre for Creative Writing)
Head of Department: Associate Professor Gail Fincham
Departmental Profile
Members of the department are engaged in research over a wide area, ranging from the literature of the European Renaissance to that of contemporary South Africa. Genres covered include drama, poetry and prose, travel writing, and autobiography. Some of the finest writers in the country teach creative writing at undergraduate and graduate level.

Departmental Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff

Professors Emeriti	2
Honorary Professor	1
Professors	7
Associate Professors	5
Senior Lecturers	4
Lecturers	2
Joint Posts	3
Administrative and Clerical Staff	2
Total__26____Students'>Total	26

Students

Doctoral	20
Masters	30
Honours	36
Undergraduate	2 287
Total	2 373

Research Fields and Staff
Mr Peter Anderson

Poetry, romanticism to modernism, history and literature, 19th-century Cape literature, culture and society, especially the eastern frontier

Dr Michael Beatty

English literature and society 1820-1940; the short poem written in English; literary criticism

Dr Mary Bock (Honorary Research Associate)

Analysis of verbal and non-verbal aspects of discourse, critical discourse analysis, narrative analysis with particular reference to the language and structure of testimonies from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Mr Sean Bowerman

Semantics; sociolinguistics; syntactic theory

Dr Carrol Clarkson

Post-apartheid South African fiction, literary theory, especially deconstruction and language philosophy as it relates to jurisprudence and contemporary South African fine art

Dr Natasha Distiller

Early modern studies, including early modern women writers, theoretical frameworks especially post-colonialism, cultural studies, and feminism, culture and identity in post-apartheid South Africa

Professor Dorothy Driver

Topics/authors in South African literature and colonial literature; the construction/deconstruction of the 'feminine' subject in language and literature

Associate Professor Rodney S Edgecombe

Shakespeare; Herbert; Marvell; Pope; the age of sensibility; Keats; Dickens; selected contemporary novelists and poets

Associate Professor Gail Fincham (Head of Department)

Modernism, particularly Joseph Conrad; postmodern fiction; narrative theory; postcolonial fiction and theory

Associate Professor Geoffrey Haresnape (Honorary Research Associate)

Shakespearean poetry and drama; topics/authors in South African literature in English; topics/authors in early 20th-century English poetry; certain other topics/authors by consultation

Professor John Higgins

Literature and society in the 18th century; literature and society in the 20th century; theories of representation; psychoanalysis and cinema; Raymond Williams

Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Hughes (Honorary Research Associate)

The history of English; historical semantics; sociolinguistics; the language of Shakespeare and Chaucer

Dr Peter Knox-Shaw (Honorary Research Associate)

The literature of cross-cultural encounter with particular reference to the Romantic and post-Romantic periods; Jane Austen and the Enlightenment; 18th-century studies

Emeritus Professor Roger Lass (Honorary Research Associate)

Phonetics and phonology; English and Germanic Linguistics; historical linguistics; evolutionary theory and language; philosophy of science

Mr Brian S. Lee (Honorary Research Associate)

Medieval English and Latin literature; British literature to the end of the Victorian period

Professor Nigel Love

Philosophy of language; phonology; general linguistics theory; romance linguistics; Celtic linguistics; language and the law

Dr Chesca Long-Innes (Honorary Research Associate)

The interface between psychoanalysis and literature; literary and cultural theory; theories of representation; comparative literature of the 20th century

Professor Kay McCormick

Language policy; code-switching; language mixing; language and gender; conversation analysis; speech community studies

Dr Adré Marshall (Honorary Research Associate)

The novels of Henry James, with particular focus on the influence of French novelists such as Flaubert; comparative study of narrative techniques of James and Proust.

Associate Professor Lesley Marx

American literature; Gothic fiction; apocalyptic fiction; film and popular culture; Celtic literature and culture

Professor Rajend Mesthrie

Sociolinguistics; syntax; historical linguistics; language contact in South Africa; Pidgins and Creoles; Indic linguistics

Dr Sam Radithlalo

African literature

Professor David Schalkwyk

Shakespeare; literature and society between 1580 and 1660 including non-Shakespearean drama and poetry; literary theory: especially Marxism, Derrida, Saussure, Bakhtin/Voloshinov and feminism; philosophy and literature (especially Wittgenstein); pastoral and politics from 1580-1750; South African prison writing

Professor Kelwyn Sole

South African literature (especially black literature); African oral literature; history, narrative and fictionalisation; science fiction; Milton; stylistic and ideological changes in 17th-century poetry

Professor Stephen Watson

South African literature (poetry and novel); 20th-century English poetry; 20th-century American poetry; central and eastern European literatures in translation; Orwell; Hemingway; modernism: Eliot, Pound; Auden

Contact Details

Postal address: Department of English Language and Literature, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa

Telephone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/english/

Research Output
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Anderson, P. 2006. Home truths: Coleridge advises Thomas Pringle. The Coleridge Bulletin, 28(4): 21-28.
Beatty, M. 2006. Liberal university education revisited. New Contrast, 34(5): 21-32.
Blommaert, J., Bock, M. and McCormick, K.M. 2006. Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings: On the hearability of hidden transcripts. Journal of Language and Politics, 5(1): 37-70.
Clarkson, C.P. 2006. Derek Attridge in the event. Journal of Literary Studies, 21(3/4): 368-75.
Clarkson, C.P. 2006. Verbal and visual: The restless view. Scrutiny 2, 2(2): 106-12.
Distiller, N. 2005. Written on the body: Meaning, gender. Shakespeare in Southern Africa: Journal of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, 17: 35-44.
Distiller, N. 2006. Editorial. Shakespeare in Southern Africa: Journal of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, 18: iii-iv.
Distiller, N. 2006. Mourning the African renaissance. Shakespeare in Southern Africa: Journal of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, 18: 49-55.
Distiller, N. 2006. Petrarch's long deceased woes? Petrarchism and hip-hop. Scrutiny 2, 11(1): 46-64.
Edgecombe, R.S. 2005. A ragbag of ballet music oddments. Brolga, 23: 12-19.
Edgecombe, R.S. 2005. Feste's leman in Twelfth Night II.iii. Shakespeare Newsletter, 55(2): 43.
Edgecombe, R.S. 2006. A faulty musical allusion in a Hood letter. Notes and Queries, 53(3): 326-27.
Edgecombe, R.S. 2006. An allusion to Dyer in a letter by Hood. Notes and Queries, 53(3): 326.
Edgecombe, R.S. 2006. An early instance of variation meaning solo dance. Notes and Queries, 53(1): 31.
Edgecombe, R.S. 2006. Cesare Pugni, Marius Petipa and 19th-century ballet music. Musical Times, 147(1895): 39-48.
Edgecombe, R.S. 2006. Paranomasia in a letter by Thomas Hood. ANQ - A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews, 19(4): 26.
Edgecombe, R.S. 2006. Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Explicator, 64(4): 204-05.
Edgecombe, R.S. 2006. The 19-century Laendler: Some thoughts. Musical Times, 147(4): 63-76.
Edgecombe, R.S. 2006. Trans-formal translation: Plays into ballets, with special reference to Kenneth Macmillan's Romeo and Juliet. Yearbook of English Studies, 36(1): 65-78.
Kronenberg, C. 2005. Illustrations of cultural universalism in Cuba with special reference to Haydie Santamaria and Leo Brouwer. UNISA Latin American Report, 21(2): 56-75.
Laing, M. and Lass, R.G. 2006. Early Middle English KNIGHT: (Psuedo)metathesis and lexical specificity. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 107: 405-423.
Lee, B. 2005. The mayde childe in The Shipman's Tale. The Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 15: 55-68.
McCormick, K.M. 2006. Afrikaans as a lingua franca in South Africa: The politics of change. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 177: 91-109.
Mesthrie, R. 2006. Anti-deletions in a second language variety: A study of Black South African English mesolect. English World-Wide, 27(2): 111-146.
Mesthrie, R. 2006. Language, transformation and development: A sociolinguistic appraisal of post apartheid South African language policy and practice. South African Journal of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 24(2): 151-163.
Mesthrie, R. 2006. Subordinate immigrant languages and language endangerment: Two community studies from KwaZulu-Natal. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Southern Africa, 37(1): 3-15.
Mesthrie, R. 2006. Undeletions in Black South African English. Spil Plus, 34: 75-99.
Mesthrie, R. 2006. World Englishes and the multilingual history of English. World Englishes, 25(3-4): 381-390.
Raditlhalo, S. 2005. Beggars' Description: 'Xala', the Prophetic Voice and the Post-independent African State. English in Africa, 32(2): 169-184.
Raditlhalo, S. 2006. Review-essay of The Closest of Strangers by Judith Coullie. Biography – An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 29(2): 362-69.
Raditlhalo, S. 2006. We are not overcoming (but we're breathing hard)--Picasso and Africa debate. Art South Africa, 4(4): 38.
Schalkwyk, D.J. 2005. Between historicism and presentism: Love and Service in Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest. Shakespeare in Southern Africa: Journal of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, 17: 1-18.
Schalkwyk, D.J. 2006. Shakespeare's untranslatability. Shakespeare in Southern Africa: Journal of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, 18: 37-48.
Steiner, C. 2006. Mimicry or translation? Storytelling and migrant identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels Admiring Silence and By the Sea. Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication, 12(2): 301-22.
Tiffin, J.K. 2006. Ice, glass, snow: Fairy tale as art and metafiction in the writing of A.S. Byatt. Marvels and Tales, 20(1): 47-66.
Watson, S.F.T. 2005. Bitter pastoral: The meaning of the Cedarberg. English Academy Review, 22: 146-59.
Watson, S.F.T. 2006. From A City Imagined. New Contrast, 34(1&2): 97-104.

BOOKS
Durrleman, S. and Deumert, A. (eds) 2006. Structure and variation in language contact: 1-376. Amsterdam: Creole Language Library.
Edgecombe, R.S. 2006. A self-divided poet: Form and texture in the verse of Thomas Hood: 1-230. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Watson, S.F.T. (ed) 2006. A city imagined: 1-216. Johannesburg: Penguin.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Bock, M. 2006. Reading B: Telling truths: Perspectives on a human rights violation. In J. Maybin and J. Swann (eds), The Art of English: Everyday Creativity: 84-96. UK: Palgrave Macmillan in assoc with Open University.
Deumert, A. 2006. Language planning – language determination. In U. Ammon, N. Dittmar, K.J. Mattheier and P. Trudgill (eds), Handbook of Sociolinguistics, Vol III: 2394-2401. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Deumert, A. 2006. Language, migration and development – towards an interdisciplinary research agenda. In V. Webb (ed.), Studies in Language Policy in South Africa: The Politics of Language in South Africa: 57-81. Pretoria: Van Schaik.
Deumert, A. 2006. Migration and Language. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics: 129-133. Oxford: Pergamon.
Deumert, A. 2006. Semantic change, the internet, and text messaging. The Encyclopdedia of Language and Linguistics: 121-124. Oxford: Pergamon.
Deumert, A. 2006. The relationship between linguistic and social change. In U. Ammon, N. Dittmar, K.J. Mattheier and P. Trudgill (eds), Handbook of Sociolinguistics, Vol III: 2138-4146. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Distiller, N. 2006. In search of the subject: English in the new South Africa. In P. Martin (ed.), English: The Condition of the Subject: 55-67. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Driver, D.J. 2005. Unruly subjects in Southern African writing. In B. Ledente, G.V. Davis, P.H. Marsden and M. Delrez (eds), Toward a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a Post-Colonial World: 61-68. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Laing, M. and Lass, R.G. 2006. Early middle English dialectology: Problems and prospects. In A.V. van Kemenade and B.L.J. Los (eds), Handbook of the History of English: 417-451. Oxford: Blackwell.
Lass, R.G. 2006. The end of linear narrative? Reflections on the historiography of English. In N.L. Love (ed.), Language and History: Integrationist Perspectives: 19-40. London: Routledge.
Mesthrie, R. 2006. Contact Linguistics and World Englishes. The Handbook of World Englishes: 273-288. Oxford: Blackwell.
Mesthrie, R. 2006. Fanakalo. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics: 430-431. Oxford: Pergamon.
Mesthrie, R. 2006. Indians: South Africa. A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English: 232-234. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Mesthrie, R. 2006. Language in the Indian diaspora. The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora: 90-94. Singapore: University of Singapore Press.
Mesthrie, R. 2006. Society and Language: Overview. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics: 472-484. Oxford: Pergamon.
Mesthrie, R. 2006. South Africa: Language situation. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics: 539-542. Oxford: Pergamon.
Raditlhalo, S. 2006. Of ancestors and church shillings. In S. Raditlhalo and T. lo Livong (eds), Es’kia: May You Grow as Big as an Elephant: 131-39. Johannesburg: Stainbank and Associates.
Schalkwyk, D.J. 2006. Sonnet 114. In M. Hanke and M. Spiller (eds), Ten Shakespeare Sonnets: Critical Essays: 111-19. Trier: WVT Wissenschaflicher Verlag.
Schalkwyk, D.J. 2006. Wittgensteins unvollkommener Garten: Die Leitern und Labyrinthe von Philosophie als Dichtung. In J. Gibson and W. Huemer (eds), Wittgenstein und die Literatur: 84-109. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Steiner, C. 2006. Writing in the contact zone: Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions in German. In J. Granqvist (ed.), Writing Back in/and Translation: 143-55. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Watson, S.F.T. 2006. Afterword to a City. In S.F.T. Watson (ed.), A City Imagined: 204-16. Johannesburg: Penguin.
Watson, S.F.T. 2006. Introduction. In S.F.T. Watson (ed.), A City Imagined: 1-11. Johannesburg: Penguin.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Hughes, G. 2006. Words of power: Changes, registers and institutions. In E. Barisone, M. Maggioni and P. Tornaghi (eds), The History of English and the Dynamics of Power: Proceedings of the 8th Italian Conference on the History of the English Language, Genoa, Italy, 5-23. Alessandria: Edisione dell'Orso. ISBN 887698082.

Creative writing
Haresnape, G.L. 2006. Erasmus eyeball studies the biblical begat. Carapace: 596-97.
Haresnape, G.L. 2006. Koning Leeuw. In R. Kozain (ed.), South African short stories since 1994: 192-208. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.
Sole, K.E. 2006. Land dreaming: Prose poems: 1-122. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
Watson, S.F.T. 2006. On the great river. Vallum, 4: 27-29.


THESES AND DISSERTATIONS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES
Beukes, L. 2006. Branded: 1-268. MA in Creative Writing.
Cochrane, K.G. 2006. The stillness of statues: 1-229. MA in Creative Writing.
Delbridge, S.A. 2006. Aspiration in South African Indian English: A Sociolinguistic study: 1-82. Masters in Linguistics.
Dovey, C. 2006. In two genres: Blood relatives and The Smiths and coelacanth: 1-246. MA in Creative Writing.
Feldman, J.M. 2006. Kick up the dust: 1-162. MA in Creative Writing.
Karkar, H. 2006. Transitions in Mahmoud Darwish's poetry: 1-118. MA in Literature and Modernity.
Kendal, R. 2006. Doctor, don't cry: 1-314. MA in Creative Writing.
Kendal, R. 2006. Not rape, not quite that: An exploration of the rape narratives in J M Coetzee's Disgrace and In the Heart of the Country within the South African context: 1-62. MA in Literary Studies.
Klein, D.R. 2006. Negotiating feminity, ethnicity and history: Photgraphic and textual representations of Ruth First in the South African struggle narratives: 1-326. PhD.
Lever, C.E. 2006. Assuming the female part: A critique of discoruses of bodily normalcy: 1-138. MA in English.
Mervis, J. 2006. Settling: 1-35. MA in Creative Writing.
Morgan, A.L. 2006. Departures: 1-189. MA in Creative Writing.
Powers, D.S. 2006. Textual solipsism in J M Coetzee's Dusklands: 91. MA in English.
Ross, C.F. 2006. Little Eye: 1-370. MA in Creative Writing.
Soutter, D. 2006. A Matter of Trust: 1-244. MA in Creative Writing.
Tserayi, J. 2006. The thorny ends of roses: 1-224. MA in Creative Writing.

UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS OF A POPULAR NATURE
Deumert, A. 2006. Review: Migration in South and Southern Africa. South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy, 22: 108.
Knox-Shaw, P. 2006. Review: Jane Austen's Philosophy of the Virtues. Nineteenth-Century Literature, 61(2): 245-49.
Knox-Shaw, P. 2006. Review: Jane Austen's Textual Lives and The Professionalization of Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century. SHARP News 15, (2-3): 24-25.
Kronenberg, C. 2006. Friends of Cuba Society (FOCUS) hosts Cuban foreign minister in Cape Town, South Africa. Unisa Latin American Report, 22 (1&2): 137-40.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Clarkson, C.P. 2006. Digterstem belig liminale ruimte: Petra Mueller verken betekenis in afwagting. Die Burger 18/12/2006: 13.

EXTENSION AND DEVELOPMENT WORK
Deumert, A., Bradshaw, J. and Burridge, K. 2006. Victoria's Languages: Gateway to the World. The interface between language, economic opportunity and migration. Victorian Government, Victoria, Australia. VITS Language Link.
Deumert, A., Webb, V. and Lepota, B. 2006. The Standardisation of African Languages in South Africa. PanSALB, South Afica.