The Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA)[1] is a multilingual, early literacy research and development organisation, affiliated with the University of Cape Town.
PRAESA's work in literacy approaches, curricula, training, materials development and research has meaning making, stories and imagination as its compass point.
She initiated a six-year interactive Xhosa-English writing process with colleague, Ntombizanele Mahobe (née Nkence) and children and staff at Battswood Primary School in Cape Town.
This development research project created a model for simultaneous early biliteracy teaching and learning, based on stories and meaning making that could be adapted by others.
In 2007, Carole Bloch formed The Little Hands Trust, together with fellow trustees and PRAESA members Neville Alexander, Ntombizanele Mahobe, Xolisa Guzula and Arabella Koopman, to motivate and nurture reading and writing among African children and their care-givers.