Keynote Speaker: Professor Eunice Nyamupangedengu

3 October 2022

Dr Eunice Nyamupangedengu is an associate professor in Science Education at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa. She obtained her PhD at Wits in 2015. She has published over 23 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has made over 30 conference presentations nationally and internationally. Her research areas are self-study of teacher educator practices (S-STEP) and she uses the pedagogical content knowledge framework in her research. She is a recipient of the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award for her work as a teacher educator. In 2022, she won the Jack Mezirow Living Theory of Transformative Learning Award (JMLTA) for an outstanding paper in its contribution to transformative learning theory. She is currently the Director of the Marang Group for Research in Mathematics and Science Education and she is engaged in a project that uses the concept of authentic conversations to promote teacher educators’ scholarship of teaching and learning.

Prof Eunice Nyamupangedengu, associate professor in Science Education at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)