Edgewood College of Education
Edgewood College of Education was a tertiary training institution located in Pinetown, Natal from 1970.
History
It was originally based in Durban as a segregated teacher training college for white women, but began admitting men from 1970.
It was incorporated into University of Natal in 2001, which in turn was incorporated with the University of Durban-Westville into the University of KwaZulu-Natal on 1 January 2004. The Edgewood campus in Pinetown is currently the University's primary site for teacher education and the home of the University School of Education.
Speech and Drama
For a time, Carolyn Higgs and Lorna Shadwell ran Speech and Drama.
Productions
Productions staged by the Speech and Drama department include:
1972: Gammer Gurton's Needle and The Imperial Nightingale
1975: The Insect Play, The Tale of the Red Dragon, Noah
1976: Pinocchio
1977: Toad in Trouble
1978: Toad in Trouble
1979: The Hobbit
1980: Pinocchio
1981: The Imperial Nightingale
1982: The Scatterbrained Scarecrow of Oz
1983: Flibberty and the Penguin
1984: The Tale of the Red Dragon
1985: Snow White
Sources
Manik, Sadhana. “Tracing Geography Education’s Footprints in South Africa.” The Origin and Growth of Geography as a Discipline at South Africa Universities, edited by Gustav Visser et al., 1st ed., African Sun Media, 2016, pp. 445–65. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1nzg15q.28.
https://ukzn.ac.za/ukzn-campuses/
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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