Browsing NWU Official by Author "21161887 - Balfour, Robert John"
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Freshlyground and the possibilities of new identities in post-apartheid South Africa
Balfour, R J (North-West University, 2012)Popular music and indeed popular art forms struggle for critical attention in the academy (Larkin, 1992). Relegated to a focus on performance, or to peripheral sub-disciplines such as cultural studies, the study of popular ... -
The return to reading: acquisition, reading research on narrative and the implications for a multilingual pedagogy for higher education in South Africa
Balfour, Robert John (CSSALL (UKZN), 2012)As applied linguists, we still need, given the resurgence of interest and scholarship in multilingualism, to attend to research on developing and changing language pedagogy so that it is informed by cognitive linguistics ... -
Rurality research and rural education: exploratory and explanatory power
Balfour, Robert J. (2012)This article presents analysed data from the first year of the Rural Teacher Education Project (RTEP 2007 - 2009) with a view to illustrating how a generative theory of rurality as education research was developed, and for ...