Pp Kese

Biography

Phumla Kese is a lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Stellenbosch University (SU). Her Master's degree in Education Management entailed course work in Curriculum Studies and her study was on listening practices to promote academic success. Her PhD work is about the use of African languages for advancing discipline-specific academic literacy practices in a multilingual higher education environment. She likes Onomastics as part of the African culture. Her research interests are on alternative ways of knowledge construction to supplement traditional pedagogical methods. Phumla has deep passion for creative writing and story-telling in English/isiXhosa for literacy enhancement. Her academic research initiatives are premised on Humanising Pedagogies and the Pedagogy of Presence. She is a member of the Language Focus Group in the Department of Curriculum Studies, SU.

Research Interest

In 2016, she received Stellenbosch University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference Award for best practice-based presentation for a paper titled: Story-telling for enhancing facilitation of listening comprehension: The homecoming of the spoken word.​