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22 November 2023 | Story EDZANI NEPHALELA

The Academy for Multilingualism invites papers for the upcoming Third International Translanguaging Symposium in the Global South from 26 to 28 March 2024. 

This symposium in the Global South aims to provide a space for international, continental, and national scholars, academics, practitioners, researchers, and postgraduate students with a kin interest in translanguaging to share their high-quality research and reflect on the critique, contradictions, challenges, complexities, and opportunities proffered by translanguaging. 

The symposium seeks to disrupt the characterisation of the periphery within the university space through the following sub-themes:

  • Translanguaging and Social Justice
  • Translanguaging and Teaching Learning
  • Translanguaging and Ubuntu Translanguaging Pedagogies
  • Translanguaging and Decoloniality
  • Translanguaging and Language Policy
  • Translanguaging and Globalisation
  • Translanguaging and Multilingualism
  • Translanguaging and Educational Equity, Access, and Success
  • Translanguaging and Literacy in Education
  • Translanguaging and Curriculum
  • Translanguaging and Assessment

Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words by 31 December 2023 to AfM@ufs.ac.za; the registration fee is R1 500. 

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UFS hosts the directors forum of IEASA
2007-05-21

The University of the Free State (UFS) recently hosted the Directors Forum of the International Educators' Association of South Africa (IEASA). The forum provides strategic recommendations and support to IEASA, which serves as a strategic support mechanism for Higher Education South Africa (HESA). It consists of all the heads of internationalisation of South African higher-education institutions and was established in 1997 for universities and universities of technology to respond to international educational trends. Pictured here are some of the delegates from the universities of the Free State, Cape Town, Fort Hare, Limpopo, UNISA, Western Cape and Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
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