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WELCOME TO THE SCHOOL!!
 We are a group of specialists working in the broad area of literacies, languages, and expressive arts. There is one postgraduate specialisation: Language and Media Studies at the Honours and Masters levels. Many modules are offered within the School across a range of phase specialisations (ECD, Foundation, Intermediate, Senior, FET), but in general these are our areas of academic and educational expertise:
We believe these areas are central to the educational enterprise in South Africa since they promote multilingualism, human rights, and respect for diversity and difference.
This awareness can only be created and sustained through human interaction and our work as educationists in the broad area of multilingual education is to open and foster communication that is both sensitive to the needs of others, and also explicit in both its intentions and manifestations.
The development of articulate and nuanced communication and literacy skills is also key to the maintenance of academic freedom and civic responsibility. The School is thus devoted to providing inservice and preservice education in aspects of the language arts through various qualifications offered by the Faculty.
To return to the Faculty Home Page please click on this address: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/education
We offer postgraduate courses in:
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popular media and the classroom,
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communication and the new literacies,
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visual literacies in research,
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narratives in education,
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language in education.
This broad range of work includes a focus on relatively new areas of academic interest in South Africa, such as 'language and gender', 'language and culture', 'language and HIV/AIDS', and 'language and citizenship', as well as more established areas such as 'language and curriculum development', 'language across the curriculum', 'language policy', 'language in education', 'language and power' and 'language, narrative and the media'. The postgraduate modules are all interdisciplinary, taught by specialists in various languages and language arts, although the medium of instruction is English.
For a list of undergraduate modules we advise you to consult the Faculty Handbook (available from the Faculty Office) for more details. The undergraduate curriculum is divided into five departments, each of which consists of a discipline. The disciplines are Afrikaans, English, Drama, Media, and Zulu Education. The school's interdisciplinary focus means, however, that aspects of language methodology, literacy, and literature are shared between the departments, or are taught jointly by members of staff.
For information about our modules and majors (undergraduate and postgraduate) please look at the various pages to the left of your screen.
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