A Student’s Confidence and a Teacher’s Practice: Reflecting on Parallel Writing Journeys in a Theatre-Making Classroom in South Africa

Authors

• Néka Da Costa, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2026

Abstract

Through the experience of Zandile, a theatre student who struggles to see herself as an academic writer despite her creative and intellectual strengths, this article examines how university writing practices can feel inaccessible and exclusionary. The author reflects on how theatre education can challenge dominant academic conventions and support more inclusive forms of expression and research.

Recommended Citation

Da Costa, Néka, "A Student’s Confidence and a Teacher’s Practice: Reflecting on Parallel Writing Journeys in a Theatre-Making Classroom in South Africa" (2026). GHEA21 Publications. 43.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/osun_publications/43

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