Eshcha Adams

Eshcha Adams is an educator and researcher based at the San and Khoi Centre in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, she completed her undergraduate degree in dance education at the University of Cape Town in 2015, thereafter completing her Honours and Masters in ethnomusicology at UCT in 2017 and 2022 respectively. Eshcha has a keen interest in decolonial-led research and praxis in education and broader African Studies, specifically San and Khoi research studies. She has in-depth experience of teaching at high school level and has had the privilege of being part of various groundbreaking research projects. The most recent projects being the Endangered Languages Digital Archive (UCT) and the WUN !Gâ re – Rangatiranga – Dadirri : Decolonizing the 'capture of knowledge' (2019 – 2022) both led by Professor June Bam. Her most recent involvement in a project is as a researcher for the Sarah Baartman Centre for Rememberance. Her masters research work focused on the Kalahari Desert Festival, she positioned the festival as a catalytic and re-imaginative space within the broader field of San and Khoi cultural sustainability and heritage work. She intends to pursue her PhD through the University of Alberta, supervised jointly by Professor June Bam and Dr Dwayne Donald. For her PhD work she is interested in designing an indigenous led and focused curriculum for South African children to engage deep listening as they ‘remember’ who they are through knowledge of the plants, environment, movement, and more. She joined the BRICS NIHSS course in order to deepen her knowledge of dialogical archives, education, and indigenous knowledge as viewed through a Freirian lens. The course was engaging and left room for deep engagement and discourse on various issues.

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Full Name
Eshcha Adams
First Name
Eshcha
Family Name
Adams
Project Role
Digital Curation Intern (2021) - MMUS in Ethnomusicology
Biography
eng Eshcha Adams is an educator and researcher based at the San and Khoi Centre in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, she completed her undergraduate degree in dance education at the University of Cape Town in 2015, thereafter completing her Honours and Masters in ethnomusicology at UCT in 2017 and 2022 respectively. Eshcha has a keen interest in decolonial-led research and praxis in education and broader African Studies, specifically San and Khoi research studies. She has in-depth experience of teaching at high school level and has had the privilege of being part of various groundbreaking research projects. The most recent projects being the Endangered Languages Digital Archive (UCT) and the WUN !Gâ re – Rangatiranga – Dadirri : Decolonizing the 'capture of knowledge' (2019 – 2022) both led by Professor June Bam. Her most recent involvement in a project is as a researcher for the Sarah Baartman Centre for Rememberance.

Her masters research work focused on the Kalahari Desert Festival, she positioned the festival as a catalytic and re-imaginative space within the broader field of San and Khoi cultural sustainability and heritage work. She intends to pursue her PhD through the University of Alberta, supervised jointly by Professor June Bam and Dr Dwayne Donald. For her PhD work she is interested in designing an indigenous led and focused curriculum for South African children to engage deep listening as they ‘remember’ who they are through knowledge of the plants, environment, movement, and more.

She joined the BRICS NIHSS course in order to deepen her knowledge of dialogical archives, education, and indigenous knowledge as viewed through a Freirian lens. The course was engaging and left room for deep engagement and discourse on various issues.
por Eshcha Adams é educadora e pesquisadora baseada no Centro San e Khoi no Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade da Cidade do Cabo. Nascida e criada na Cidade do Cabo, África do Sul, ela completou sua graduação em educação de dança na Universidade da Cidade do Cabo em 2015, depois completou suas honras e mestrado em etnomusicologia na UCT em 2017 e 2022, respectivamente. Eshcha tem um grande interesse em pesquisas e práticas descoloniais em educação e estudos africanos mais amplos, especificamente estudos de pesquisa em San e Khoi. Ela tem profunda experiência de ensino em nível de ensino médio e teve o privilégio de fazer parte de vários projetos de pesquisa pioneiros. Os projetos mais recentes são o Arquivo Digital de Línguas em Perigo (UCT) e o WUN !Gâ re - Rangatiranga - Dadirri : Descolonização da 'captura do conhecimento' (2019 - 2022) ambos liderados pela Professora June Bam. Seu envolvimento mais recente em um projeto é como pesquisadora para o Centro de Lembrança de Sarah Baartman.

Seu trabalho de pesquisa de mestrado se concentrou no Festival do Deserto do Kalahari. Ela posicionou o festival como um espaço catalisador e reimaginativo dentro do campo mais amplo da sustentabilidade cultural e do trabalho patrimonial de San e Khoi. Ela pretende fazer seu doutorado através da Universidade de Alberta, supervisionada conjuntamente pela Professora June Bam e pelo Dr. Dwayne Donald. Para seu trabalho de doutorado, ela está interessada em projetar um currículo indígena liderado e focado para que as crianças sul-africanas se engajem na escuta profunda enquanto 'lembram' quem são através do conhecimento das plantas, ambiente, movimento, e muito mais.

Ela se inscreveu no curso BRICS NIHSS a fim de aprofundar seus conhecimentos sobre arquivos dialógicos, educação e conhecimento indígena como visto através de uma lente freiriana. O curso foi envolvente e deixou espaço para um profundo engajamento e discurso sobre várias questões.
Project Team
Research Assistant Team
Member of
UCT
A/Xarra Women's Commission
Affiliation
University of Cape Town

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