Conference programme

The 2nd Unisa Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children

6-8 October

Unisa Main Campus, Muckleneuk Ridge, Pretoria

For updated Programme, visit: Preliminary (and updated) Programme

Wednesday 6 October 2010
Workshops
Storytelling Evening

Thursday 7 October 2010
Conference
Storytelling Evening

Friday 8 October 2010
Conference

Thursday 7 October 2010

07:45-08:30 Registration
08:30-08:45 Welcome and Opening

08:45-09:30 Keynote address: Bleeding beauties: folktales that could change a girl into a woman
Marita de Sterck, Belgium
09:30-10:00 The Kaross of Heritage
Basil Mills, English Literary Museum, Grahamstown
10:00-10:30 A joke and a riddle: a collection from black Afrikaans speaking communities
Maritha Snyman, Lapa Publishers

10:30-11:00 Coffee

11:00-11:30 Bringing back folktales and storytelling to life (Palestinian National Project)
Denes Asad, Palestine storyteller
11:30-12:00 The transforming effect of storytelling on children
Babila Mutia, Dept of English, Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of
Yaoundé I, Cameroon
12:00-12:30 The necessity of storytelling
Dieynaba Gueye, Storyteller, Senegal
12:30-13:00 Promoting reading and storytelling in the digital age: the case for an online encyclopaedia on children’s literature and storytelling in Africa
Elinor Sisulu

13:00-13:45 Lunch

Parallel Session 1:

13:45-14:15 Explicit and implicit affirmation of behavioural characteristics in children’s literature
JE Wehrmeyer, Dept of Linguistics, Unisa
14:15-14:45 The physics of responsibility: alternate worlds and adolescent choices
Molly Brown, Department of English, University Of Pretoria
14:45-15:15 Negotiating a new cultural space: aspects of fantasy in contemporary South African youth literature
Gina Leigh Robson, University of Pretoria

Parallel Session 2:
13:45-14:15 Teachers as readers themselves: developing reading habits in teachers for transfer to learners
Abudulai Jakalia, Department of English Education, University of Education,
Winneba, Ghana
14:15-14:45 Using a visualizer in storytelling and reading promotion
Cheryl Gibbs, Springvale Primary School
14:45-15:15 Small details provides for the great interest in reading.
Natalie Kurtog, Russia

15:15-15:45 Coffee

Parallel Session 1
15:45-16:15 Getting generation Y learners to reconsider the book: the case for St Stithians Boys Prep Library
Moira Gundu, St Stithians Boys Prep School, Randburg
16:15-16:45 Creating a passion for stories – a practical demonstration
Audrey Hitchcock – Hedgehog Books

Parallel Session 2: Afrikaans-Dutch Session
15:45-16:15 Alternatiewe maniere vir storievertel: die orale tradisie tot by Facebook
Franci Greyling, Vakgroep Skryfkuns, Skool vir Tale, Noordwes Universiteit
16:15-16:45 Tricksters op het web: weef een multimediaweb rond orale verhalen
Marita de Sterck, België

17:30 Cocktail
18:15 Storytelling

Friday 8 October 2010

08:30-09:00 Alternative means to promote a love for reading
Rene Schoombee, Laerskool Rustenburg
09:00-09:30 “You must tell the story and not act it out”: children’s literature and cultural diversity
Ellen Lenyai; School of Education; University of South Africa.
09:30-10:00 Igniting the Reading Fire
Bukola Ladoja, Nigeria
10:00-10:30 Teach children a love for books then they will love reading forever
Ronelle van Vollenhoven, Hoërskool Bergsig, Rustenburg

10:30-11:00 Coffee

Parallel Session 1:
11:00-11:30 Reading promotion: Buddy Reading as literacy technique
Leoné Tiemensma
11:30-12:00 Reading promotion in a township school library: a “school librarian’s” story
Nicoline Wessels and Nampombe Mnkeni-Saurombe, Department of Information
Science, Unisa
12:00-12:30 The Lubuto Library Project: innovative, holistic educational support to overcome societal isolation of orphans and vulnerable children and youth
Jane Kinney Meyers, President: Lubuto Library Project, USA
12:30-13:00 First Words in Print: growing up with books
Nombulelo Baba, Co-ordinator: Children's Literature Programme at the Centre for
the Book

Parallel Session 2: Afrikaans Session

11:00-11:30 Hedendaagse tendense in Afrikaanse kinderboeke as rigtingwysers tot leesbevordering onder jong lesers
Mia Oosthuizen, Departement Afrikaans, Unisa
11:30-12:00 Gedichten lezen: ja! Poëzie spelen: JAAAA!!
Daniel Billiet, België
12:00-12:30 Intertekstualiteit in jeugliteratuur
Marietha Nieman, Department of Education, Unisa
12:30-13:00 Basisbeginsels vir die bevordering van gemeenskapseie woordkuns in Suid-Afrika
Anneretha Combrink, Vakgroep Skryfkuns, Skool vir Tale, Noordwes Universiteit

13:00-13:45 Lunch

13:45-14:15 The wonderful world of the short story
Derrick Hurlin, writer and editor
14:15-14:45 Planning and running of a children’s reading tent
AK Mugalavai, Department of Library, Egerton University, Kenya
14:45-15:15 What can we read?
Crystal Warren, English Literary Museum, Grahamstown
15:15-15:30 Closing
15:30- Coffee