• Poetry in motion : the taxi and taxi poetry as sites of mobility and creativity in Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry 

  Muller, Alan (Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-12)

  This article examines how Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry uses the taxi industry as a dynamic cultural space to explore intersections of mobility and identity in an alternate post-apartheid South Africa. ...
• Transforming academic literacy : centering indigenous identities in the classroom 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver (MDPI, 2025-02-14)

  This article explores the transformational potential of centering indigenous identities and heritage within academic literacy instruction in higher education. The dominance of Eurocentric pedagogies in higher education has ...
• Developing an inclusive African theory of academic literacy 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver; Dewa, Nokuthula Ntombiyelizwe (The International Journal of Literacies, 2025-01-16)

  South Africa has enjoyed post-apartheid democratic freedom for thirty years. However, three decades after apartheid’s legal end, institutions of higher learning still grapple with a significant crisis of student attrition. ...
• Co-designing and implementing transdisciplinary academic literacy in higher education 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver (Universidad de Granada, 2025-01-16)

  Transdisciplinary education combines disciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. Unlike the latter paradigms, transdisciplinary pedagogy deliberately integrates diverse academic fields with knowledge, practices and ...
• Mismanagement and misinterpretations in asylum interviews : perspectives from South Africa and Sweden 

  Ottosson, Lisa; Angu, Pineteh; Gustafsson, Kristina (Oxford University Press, 2024-09)

  This article explores the interactions between key actors in asylum interviews in South Africa and Sweden. It is based on forty-one interviews with asylum seekers, interpreters, state officials, and legal representatives. ...
• Editorial 

  Sibanda, Brian; Sefalane-Nkohla, Puleng; Joubert, Michelle; Rambiritch, Avasha; Drennan, Laura; Angu, Pineteh (University of the Free State, 2023-09-29)

  The Covid-19 pandemic brought about a profound transformation in the landscape of higher education. This special issue delves into the complex and far-reaching impact of the pandemic on academic continuity, with a particular ...
• Exploring factors influencing teachers’ expectations of learners’ reading practices 

  Cekiso, M.P.; Olifant, F.M.; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah (Stellenbosch University, 2023-08)

  Research demonstrates that teachers’ expectations could influence learners’ reading achievements, both positively and negatively. Specifically, teachers’ expectations determine the level and type of instruction they would ...
• The end(s) of The Tempest in post-apartheid South Africa 

  De Waal, Marguerite Florence (Routledge, 2024)

  Following the sea change that led South Africa into the democratic era in 1994, theatre-makers have explored the resonances and limitations of The Tempest as an expression of local realities. In this article, I provide a ...
• Rethinking literacy pedagogy in the context of 4IR : learners’ access and reading motivation 

  Olifant, Florence M.; Cekiso, Madoda; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah (AOSIS, 2023-12-18)

  BACKGROUND: In the education sector, technologies are (or can be) repurposed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) to facilitate teaching and learning. However, this shift may impact on learners’ access to reading ...
• Improving the reading proficiency of mature students through a task-based language teaching approach 

  Adjei-Mensah, Susana; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Masenge, Andries (AOSIS, 2023-08-29)

  BACKGROUND: Mature age admission at universities is increasing rapidly all over the world and Ghanaian universities, both private and public, are no exception. The language proficiency of the admitted mature students, ...
• Left, right then left again : educators at the intersection of global citizenship education, technology and academic literacies 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver; Muller, Alan (Sage, 2024-03)

  The purpose of this article is to critically consider the roles that academic literacy facilitators fulfil in exposing students to Global Citizenship Education (GCE). In university disciplines, literacies are primary tools ...
• Afrocentricity and decoloniality in disciplinarity : a reflective dialogue on academic literacy development 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver (University of the Western Cape, 2023)

  This study explores a transformative method to revise an academic literacy study guide in a Humanities faculty in South Africa. The methodology includes a critical literature review, positioning the study within the ...
• Cultural entanglement, displacement and contemporary Durban in Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between 

  Muller, Alan (Routledge, 2023)

  This article focuses on Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between and investigates how the novel’s join protagonists, Nafisa and Shakeer, navigate their contemporary Durban. The mother and son, I point out, present two disparate ...
• Being black and non-citizen in South Africa : intersecting race, white privilege and afrophobic violence in contemporary South Africa 

  Angu, Pineteh (Wiley, 2023-09)

  Post-apartheid South Africa is characterized by growing feelings of pain, anger and frustration amongst black communities triggered by pervasive social inequalities. This has given birth to a new form of political and ...
• Academic, keyword, and plain English subtitles for natural sciences students : intralingual views 

  Kruger-Marais, Elmarie; Kruger-Roux, Helena (AOSIS, 2023-08-31)

  The study is an analysis of the reaction of students in a faculty of natural and agricultural sciences (NAS) to subtitles and also includes an investigation of their responses thereto. Reception of and responses to ...
• Coloniality as appropriation of indigenous ontologies : insights From South Africa and Ethiopia 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver (Sage, 2023-01)

  The purpose of this investigation is to frame Global North colonialism in southern and eastern Africa as ontological appropriation. In the article’s conceptual framework, ontological appropriation is colonial claims to ...
• Can academic writing transform epistemicide to emancipation? 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver (Common Ground Research Networks, 2022-11)

  Coercive Management Behavior (CMB) exists in universities as it does in cooperate entities. Consequently, CMB constrains research productivity and pedagogic commitments and can induce epistemicide. In response to CMB, this ...
• “You are essentially just a number”: discourse elaboration and devaluation among natural science students 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver; Paulet, Emma; Van der Schyff, Natasha (Hindawi, 2023-05)

  This article analyzes first-year natural science students’ experiences of discourse and devaluation as new members of the Natural and Agricultural Sciences Faculty at the University of Pretoria (UP). This study aims to ...
• An interdependent literacy model to assist with critical reading comprehension in the English First Additional language classroom 

  Olifant, Tilla; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah (Unisa Press, 2022)

  Various attempts have been made to assist the multitude of South African learners who experience literacy challenges, particularly critical reading challenges, in the classroom. Although a number of critical literacy ...
• Investigating English first additional language educators’ reading comprehension practices in selected schools in Gauteng, South Africa 

  Olifant, Tilla; Cekiso, M.P.; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah (Education Association of South Africa, 2022-11)

  Educators’ reading comprehension instructional practices have been identified as 1 of the factors that contribute to learners’ poor reading comprehension performance. To this end, several studies were conducted to identify ...

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