Anita K - Tutor in Franklin Roosevelt Park
Hi! I am Anita I am a writer, reader and would like to consider myself an anthropologist (feel free to google this if you are unsure what an anthropologist is). For the past few years I have worked in the academic sphere, I have lectured, tutored and worked as a student assistant. I am a keen critical thinker and enjoy learning about almost anything (from political regime failures to orchid care). I enjoy helping students grow and hone their own skills, especially when it comes to writing. There are few things as fulfilling as seeing a student gaining confidence in their abilities and find their own 'voice'. Based on my own education and work experience I will be able to aid you by helping you acquire research materials (academic and otherwise), teach referencing styles, essay formulation, language editing, expanding vocabulary and general comprehension etc. I have a love for languages and I am fluent in English and Afrikaans.
Tutor basics
Teaching places
Students Home, Public Place, and Online
Travelling distance
Anita will travel 20km from Franklin Roosevelt Park, Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Languages spoken
Anita speaks Afrikaans and English
Experience
Junior Lecturer
I lectured undergraduate courses in the application of social anthropology in film and media, key concepts in social anthropology and urban anthropology. I developed study outlines, source reading material, planned assignments and exams, lectured classes and graded papers as well as examinations. I have mastered simplifying complex concepts and issues, while educating learners to develop critical thinking skills using their own experiences as a guide. I also converted all study material for modules to an electronic platform used by the university.
Tutor
I developed additional learning material for an Urban Anthropology module and organised additional classes. I organised and attended weekly tutorial meetings, and facilitated a tutorial programme which also consisted of assessing students’ work.
Education
MA Social Anthropology - NWU
I am currently writing up my own research dissertation based on my own ethnographic fieldwork. Enthnographic research refers to long term interpersonal research where the researcher immerses themselves into the everyday experiences, labour and interaction of their research interest and participants. I conducted and completed ethnographic fieldwork with a bursary from African Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR) and North-West University (NWU) from August 2017 to March 2018. I have also presented a paper based on current research titled: “Clinic Gardens: Critically contextualising ‘Resilience’ in late modern South Africa”, at the annual Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA) conference: Movement, Mobility, Transformation in Gaborone, Botswana from 25 - 28 September 2018.
BA Humanities - NWU
During my degree I majored in English and Social Anthorpology. I achieved a merit certificate for best Social Anthropology student in 2012 I also took Art History, Philosophy, and French as additional courses during my undergraduate degree.
Hons BA Sociology and Sociology - NWU
During my Honours I was selected for a German exchange program at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. Here I completed my Sociology course work and took part in research projects with refugees and completes German language course. I returned to South Africa after my semester abroad to complete my own ethnographic fieldwork and research dissertation for the Anthropology section of my degree.
Subjects taught
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English Literature
I am great at helping students understand complex or foreign concepts in terms of their life and experience. I enjoy talking about stories and analysing what these stories mean with a greater context. For example considering what makes Shakespeare still relevant to people today. I have a lot of experience in summarising plots and other literary analysis features which I will be happy to teach you.
Anita teaches English Literature at High School level(s)
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Humanities
I have formal training in ethnographic methods, such as participant observation. I have received post graduate qualifications in Sociology and Social Anthropology. I have 3 years experience lecturing Social Anthropology at a University. I enjoy unravelling the human condition and discussing key concepts that we use to describe and analyse what it means to human
Anita teaches Humanities at High School and University/College level(s)
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Afrikaans
As a native Afrikaans speaker I will be able to help with the idiomatic complexitities of the language as well as help with teaching vocabulary and general gramar. I also have collection of Afrikaans books in a vast range of ability levels which I would be happy to share with you in order improve your reading, speaking ang comprehension ability of the language.
Anita teaches Afrikaans at High School and Primary School level(s)