MICRO-BIO

• Medeé Rall holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Diploma for Educators of Adults, and a Masters Degree in Education (Applied Language and Literacy Studies) from the University of Cape Town, and is currently registered for a PhD, also at the University of Cape...More

  Medeé Rall holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Diploma for Educators of Adults, and a Masters Degree in Education (Applied Language and Literacy Studies) from the University of Cape Town, and is currently registered for a PhD, also at the University of Cape Town. She is currently the Director of the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies at the University of Cape Town. Previously she worked at Iziko Museums of Cape Town as Coordinator of Publications and at Progress College as an educator. She has also worked in as an adult educator, teaching English literacy.Her research interests are museums as spaces of literacy provision, museums and lifelong learning and multimodal communication in museums. Publications include Spirits of the ancestors, The students at the South African Museum speak, and Reinventing South African Museum. She received the Western Cape Provincial Award – Adult Learner’s Week in 2001 and 2002 for work done in a literacy class based at the South African Museum. Less

EXPERIENCE

• University of Cape Town

  • Director
  • Centre for Extra-Mural Studies
  • May 2004 to Present

EDUCATION

• University of Cape Town

  • PhD
  • April 2019 to Present

  She has recently completed her PhD on the representation of the San, South Africa’s indigenous people, over a period of a hundred years, placed against a socio-political background.

Interests

• Museum Studies

• Exhibitions

• Museums

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