Profile of Laurence Shee, Teacher

Laurence Shee

Qualifications

BA (University of Natal)
BA Honours (University of Cape Town)
MA Cum Laude (University of the Orange Free State)
HED – Higher Education Diploma - Post-Graduate – (University of South Africa)
TESP – Certificate in Teaching English for Specific Purposes (University College of Saint Mark and Saint John, Plymouth UK)
CALL – Certificate in Computer Assisted Language Learning (University of Oregon English Language Centre, Eugene, Oregon, USA)

Laurence Shee has taught both Matric English First Language and history and was an official Examiner for English First Language in the Free State Education Department.
He lectured history up to and including Honours level at Vista University for four years.
He taught English for Specific Purposes (TESP) - Diplomatic English - in the South African Department of Foreign Affairs for ten years.
He ran his own Business English company, Winslow Wordsmith cc, for four years. Clients included the First Rand Group and the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA).
He has taught International Studies and Academic English in the MSA Foundation Programme since July 2007

He won the Teacher of the Year Award on the MSA campus in 2008.
Won a Staff Cross Campus Mobility Award to Australia in 2009.
He was a member of the Foundation Programme team that received an Australian Learning and Teaching (ALTC) Award in 2009.

His research interests include Zimbabwean history; Southern African literature; museums; and figurative language in English.

He is a published author in the fields of education, history and English.
His reference book on English figurative language Chameleon English: Constant Change, was published by Athena Press, UK in 2010.
He had published an article:
Zimbabwe’s Revolutionary Changes in Education in Vista University’s Occasional Papers.
His presentation at the Monash A Home away from Home conference in 2010 is currently being published as a chapter in the conference book: A Home away from Home. The chapter is entitled: Implementing a Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning Programme for Academic Staff and Students at Monash South Africa.
His published newspaper article from the Sunday Times: Cowpools, Couples and SAFM was selected as a comprehension passage for the matric examination in English First Language in the Gauteng Education Department.

Annual Conference: International Society for Cultural History (ISCH) 2009 at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
Conference theme: Violence and Conflict.
Paper presented:
The Green Bombers: Robert Mugabe’s Lethal Graduates.
Annual Conference: International Society for Cultural History (ISCH) 2010 at the University of Turku in Turku, Finland.
Conference theme: Cultural histories: Close Readings, Critical Syntheses.
Paper presented:
The Aftermath of the Chimurenga: White, post-Rhodesian Introspective Literature.
Presented a paper: Implementing a Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning Programme for Academic Staff and Students at Monash South Africa at the Monash: A Home away from Home conference in 2010.
Annual Conference: International Society for Cultural History (ISCH) 2010 at the University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway.
Conference theme: History Memory Myth: re-presenting the Past.
Paper presented:
The Paradox of Freedom Park – a “Salvo” of Words.