This paper defines the notion of "dialogic local space" and highlights its importance to teaching and learning. A dialogic local space values multiple local realities as it invites us to listen to, take up, and have confidence in our own local everyday and personal realities, and to listen to, consider, and respond to other local…

Literary works, apart from being written with an artistic purpose, contribute to the transfer of some universal values to the reader. Thus, "values" continue to exist as they are transferred from generation to generation, similar to a context where the curriculum of a teaching process may work in the same way. The act of transferring…

This article concerns ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project), which is a community of poets, scholars (including the authors), teachers and students, established in 2013 to promote, in educational systems, the work of contemporary South African poets. For the past three years (2017-2019), we have attempted through outreach and research to…