We are currently researching cultural tourism initiatives in KwaZulu-Natal for an upcoming publication. We are aware of the following but would appreciate any information on other trails, routes or initiatives, currently in operation:
The Centre for Critical Research on Race Identity has a number of scholarships available for Phd and Masters students, for their project Education and Emancipation: a critical, intervention-oriented investigation of obstacles and opportunities within the higher-education-and-training sector in South Africa.
Niall McNulty was recently in Kenya, running a workshop on ‘Libraries as Community Memory’ for the National Museums of Kenya, in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Nairobi.
With funding from the Goethe Institut, the Ulwazi Programme was rolled out to township and rural schools in a bid to create opportunities to enhance ICT skills among the youth and generate interest in their own history and culture. The School’s project was run at four township and rural schools – two schools during the second semester of 2011 and two schools during the first semester 2012. The pilot project was run with a practical task-based section and an online e-learning component.
In a change from the first half of the project, both mentors worked with a group of 10 students, from one school at a time. They introduced the programme, showed students how the website works, provided training on interviewing and story-writing and mentorship to the students with regards to their story-writing. Working with the teacher responsible for this project, the mentor also set weekly themes for story collection (e.g. the story of my family, the area I grew up in, etc.) and helped mark the stories.
Students loaded their own stories and images onto the Ulwazi Programme website and learnt to assign appropriate categories to them. They also completed an online test at the end of the eight weeks, with questions set that required the student to use the Ulwazi website to answer. There were also a number of questions on the ICT skills that students picked up through the programme.
