Wednesday, August 11, 2010

2nd Unisa Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children, 6-8 October 2010: accepted papers

The 2nd Unisa Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children (6-8 October) will be hosted on the Unisa Main Campus

The registration form and final programme should be ready soon, but in the mean time, here is a list of the papers that have been accepted for the Conference.

Explicit and implicit affirmation of behavioural characteristics in children's literature, Wehrmeyer, Dept of Linguistics, Unisa
Bleeding beauties: folktales that could change a girl into a woman, Marita de Sterck, Belgium
Alternative means to promote a love for reading, Renee Schoombee, Laerskool Rustenburg
Getting generation Y learners to reconsider the book: the case for St Stithians Boys Prep Library, Moira Gundu, St Stithians Boys Prep School, Randburg
The physics of responsibility: alternate worlds and adolescent choices, Molly Brown, Department of English, University of Pretoria
Creating a passion for stories - a practical demonstration, Audrey Hitchcock , Hedgehog Books
Using a visualizer in storytelling and reading promotion, Cheryl Gibbs, Springvale Primary School
Reading promotion: Buddy Reading as literacy technique, Leone Tiemensma
Fostering Ubuntu through contemporary picturebooks, Prof Jennifer M. Graff, University of Georgia, USA
Igniting the reading fire, Bukola Ladoja, Nigeria
The role of oral history in promotion of reading: experiences of EASLIS, Makerere University, Elisam Magara, Uganda
"You must tell the story and not act it out": children's literature and cultural diversity, Dr Ellen Lenyai, School of Education, University of South Africa.
Negotiating a new cultural space: aspects of fantasy in contemporary South African youth literature, Gina Leigh Robson, University of Pretoria
Reading promotion in a township school library: a "school librarian's" story, Nicoline Wessels and Namponde Mnkeni-Saurombe, Department of Information Science, Unisa
Planning and running of a children's reading tent, AK Mugalavai, Department of Library, Egerton University, Kenya
The Wonderful world of the short story, Derrick Hurlin, writer and editor
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
Teach children a love for books then they will love reading forever, Ronelle van Vollenhoven, Hoerskool Bergsig, Rustenburg
First words in print: growing up with books, Nombulelo Baba, Co-ordinator: Children's Literature Programme at the Centre for the Book.
Small details are the great interest in reading, Natali Kurtog, Russia
What can we read? Crystal Warren, English Literary Museum, Grahamstown
Teacher as readers themselves: developing reading habits in teachers for transfer to learners, Abudulai Jakalia, Department of English Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
The Kaross of Heritage, Basil Mills, English Literary Museum, Grahamstown
The necessity of storytelling, Dieynaba Gueye, Storyteller, Senegal
A joke and a riddle: a collection from black Afrikaans speaking communities, Maritha Snyman, Lapa Publishers
My experiences with the Palestine national project for folktales and story-telling and experience as a traininer for story-tellers, Denes Asad, Palestine storyteller, Haifa, Israel
The transforming effect of storytelling on Children, Babila Mutia, Dept of English, Ecole Normale Superieure, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon

Afrikaanse sessie:
Hedendaagse tendense in Afrikaanse kinderboeke as rigtingwysers tot leesbevordering onder jong lesers, Me Mia Oosthuizen, Departement Afrikaans ,Unisa
Alternatiewe maniere vir storievertel: die orale tradisie to by ... Prof Franci Greyling, Vakgroep Skryfkuns, Skool vir Tale, Noordwes Universiteit
Intertekstualiteit in jeugliteratuur, Marietha Nieman, Department of Education, Unisa
Basis beginsels vir die bevordering van gemeenskapseie woordkuns in Suid-Afrika, Anneretha Combrink, Vakgroep Skryfkuns, Skool vir tale, Noordwes Universiteit

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