PELE LE PELE RESEARCH PROJECT
CALL FOR MASTER’S BURSARY APPLICATION 2011
The French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) is pleased to announce that as part of the Pele le pele research project, coordinated by Michel Lafon (IFAS/CentRePol, University of Pretoria) and Vic Webb (CentRePol, University of Pretoria), in partnership with CentRePol, it will be offering one Master’s bursary of ZAR 20 000 for the conduction of field research in line with that of the Pele le pele research program. The eligibility criteria are the following:

Eligibility
- Being registered at a South African University and enrolled in a Master’s program for the academic year 2011.

Scientific objectives:
The project concerns the use (or lack of it) of African home languages in school.
Everyone familiar with the South African scene will know just how important the language issues in education are, not only for pedagogical and cognitive reasons, but for political and ideological ones as well. The promotion and recognition of African languages is an explicit part of the political project of the team in power, a fact to which various initiatives and policies, education included, since 2003 bear witness. In that light, the Pele le pele programme examines any issue relative to linguistic behaviour in ‘African’ schools - schools where the learners are all or overwhelmingly African - focussing on the main intervention area of the University, viz., Pretoria townships and/or the city-centre.

The research would have to fit into one of the following axis of analysis:
- Use of African home language in Foundation Phase as LoLT for literacy and numeracy
- Teaching of African home language as subject in Foundation Phase and beyond
- Issues of so-called standard language vs local urban varieties
- Strategies of linguistic communication in city-centre African schools where teachers normally do not have any African language in their repertoire

URBAN PROTECTED AREAS (UPA) NETWORK
CALL FOR MASTER’S BURSARY APPLICATION 2011
The French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) is pleased to announce that as part of the Urban Protected Areas (UPA) network, it will be offering two Master’s bursaries of ZAR20,000/2000 euros each for the conduction of research on the history and policies of urban protected areas, with the Table Mountain National park in Cape Town as a case study. The two bursaries are intended to be allocated to one Master student registered at a European Union University and one Master student registered at a South African University.

Eligibility
- Being enrolled in a Master’s program for the academic year 2010-2011 for European Union and 2011 for South Africa.
- Students with background in Geography/Anthropology/History/Political Science.

This call is intended to elicit applications from Master’s students in
Geography/Anthropology/History/Political Science willing to conduct research in line with the following themes:
- Practices, management and policies of urban protected areas.
- History of the “park-city” governance relationship.
The research must imperatively be done with the Table Mountain National Park as a case study.