Vuyisile Msila

Tangeni Iijambo & Vuyisile Msila

Mail address:
PO Box 13237
ELSPARK, 1418
South Africa

Email: msilav@unisa.ac.za

MSU degree: Master of Arts in Curriculum and Teaching

Current Job: Arts and Culture Coordinator/ Lecturer at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria. Working in the National Professional Diploma in Education (NPDE). Teach and design materials for teacher learners in the programme. (An editor of a literary journal- Echoes Literary Journal)

Areas of Special Interest: Literature & Arts and Culture generally; Teacher Change Educational Policy; Community and Education; African indigenous knowledge in education

Language: IsiXhosa and English

Publications:
Msila, V. 2003. How to empower teachers as managers of change. (a chapter in, Du Plooy, P and Wesraad, S. (eds). Education and Training: Models for Best Practice. Port Elizabeth: Delta Foundation & UPE.

Msila, V. Parental Involvement: The Missing Link. In The Teacher, 17 October 2003. Africanisation of South African Universities. (Soon to appear in TeachAfrica site) Black parental Involvement in Education. Submitted to Perspectives in Education.

So long a night. 1999. An ABET (Adult Basic Education and Training) Reader. Pretoria: Stimela Publishers.

A Song at Dawn. 2001. Poetry Anthology.

Conferences:
The Writer as a Social Critic. A paper delivered at Uncwadi Writers Association Conference, East Cape Training Centre, Port Elizabeth. September 2003.

How to empower teachers as managers of change. A paper delivered at the Delta Foundation and University of Port Elizabeth Models for Best Practice Conference, Port Elizabeth, October 2002.

When Cultures meet: The effects of Arts and Culture learning in South African schools. A paper to be delivered at the 4th International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and nations, Univ. of Carlifonia, LA 6-9 July 2004