Pippa Stein
Pippa Stein (?-2008). Playwright, academic.
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Biography
Born Phillipa Stein. Married to Malcolm Purkey.
She became a distinguished academic in the field of linguistics and related disciplines belonging to the infinite aspects of the word.
Her academic career began at the University of the Witwatersrand in the 1980s as a lecturer in the department of applied English language studies, and was marked by her vision of education as a teaching responsibility also for the social change to which she was dedicated.
She initiated the Soweto English Language Project as a grass-roots beginning, and out of this grew her innovative series of textbooks for the teaching of English. She was joint leader of the Wits Multiliteracies Research Project, and joint organiser of the highly successful 14th International Conference of Learning in June 2007.
She completed her PhD at the University of London, the thesis - Multinational Pedagogies in Diverse Classrooms: Rights, Representations and Resources, published in 2008.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
She wrote The Goat that Sneezed (1975) and Wooze Bear (1977).
Awards, honours, etc
Sources
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
Nadine Gordimer. 2008. A love of life and scholarship. Mail & Guardian. https://mg.co.za/article/2008-08-15-a-love-of-life-and-scholarship/
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