Fargher, Margaret May2017-07-182017-07-181998Fargher, Margaret May (1998) Bridge across silence: journal writing as a means towards understanding the color purple and addressing the silences around multi-cultural experience in a classroom, University of the Witatersrand, Johannesburg,<http://hdl.handle.net/10539/23005>http://hdl.handle.net/10539/23005A Research Report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English Education at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, November 1998With the emergence of South Africa as a new democracy and the concomitant new constitution there has been interesting and subtle change in the context in which I teach. The composition of my classrooms has changed and thus I have used journal writing by the students to try to deal meaningfully and transformatively with these changes. My classroom had within a relatively short space of time, become a multi-cultural one in which silences, different from those I had previously noticed, emerged. [No abstract provided. Information taken from introduction].Online resource (97 leaves)enWalker, Alice,--1944-DiariesEnglish literature--Study and teaching (Secondary)--South AfricaThesis