Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies

Mrs K Naidu

College of Education
School of Teacher Education
Department: Curriculum and Instructional Studies
Lecturer
Tel: 012 429 2184
E-mail: naiduk1@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • B. Paed (Arts) (UDW-UKZN)
  • BA Hons (Publishing Studies) (Wits)
  • PGDip (Journalism and Media Studies) (Wits)
  • MA (English Education) (Wits)

Currently teaching

  • TPN2602

Fields of academic interests

  • Teaching literature in English Home Language (HL) and First Additional Language (FAL) classrooms.
  • Using social media to teach English to HL and FAL learners.

Journal articles

Bozalek, V., Newfield, D., Romano, N., Carette, L., Naidu, K., Mitchell, V., & Noble, A. (2021). Touching matters : affective entanglements in coronatime. QUALITATIVE INQUIRY. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420960167

Naidu, K., & Newfield, D. (2020). "Moments that glow": WhatsApp as a decolonising tool in EFAL poetry teaching and learning. Education as Change, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/797

Paper presentations

  • Lecturers’ experiences of the blurring of space and time during Covid-19 in higher education in a South Africa ODeL university
  • Presented at the UNISA 2021 Open Distance and eLearning Virtual Conference 4-6 August 2021 Katharine Naidu; Mpho-Entle Puleng Modise

Projects

  • ZAPP - The South African Poetry Project. I have been a member of ZAPP since its inception 2014.