Gideon Nomdo
Gideon convenes the Language and Communications module attached to the Introductory Economics course in the Commerce faculty, offering language-based support for students on the extended curriculum programme. He is interested in academic literacy, curriculum development, student development, and mentorship. He is the Academic Co-ordinator of the Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Programme (MMUF) at UCT. This fellowship is an Equity Development initiative and aims at recruiting highly successful Black students into academia.
Gideon’s current research interest is in the area of Language, Discourse and Identity. He is currently busy with a PhD where he is looking at how successful Black (Coloured) students construct their identities in a post-apartheid setting. A core concern in the PhD is identifying “fateful moments” in these students’ lives and assessing the impact of these on the identity construction process.
Contact Details
Email: Gideon.Nomdo@uct.ac.zaPhone: +27 21 650 5039
Fax: +27 21 650 5045