Making Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Count At The University of Pretoria

Posted on April 15, 2021

he University of Pretoria (UP) wishes to acknowledge the European Union/Department of Higher Education and Training (EU/DHET) funding in the development of the Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood Care and Education (B Ed ECCE) programme. The programme has been developed as one of the...

Academy on Violence and Abuse – South Africa

Posted on March 06, 2020

The mission of the Academy on Violence and Abuse South Africa (AVA) is to advance education and research on the recognition, treatment, and prevention of the health effects of violence and abuse throughout the lifecourse.

Time does not heal a child’s wounds – a call for research development in trauma and abuse

Posted on July 31, 2019

Adverse Childhood Experiences and child abuse do not receive the necessary attention and assessment they require from society. This was the collective view of experts from the USA and South Africa at a recent colloquium hosted by UP's Department of Early Childhood Education in collaboration with...

Colloquium on childhood adversity

Posted on July 26, 2019

On the 24th of July the Department of Early Childhood Education hosted a colloquium on childhood adversity and violence at Future Africa.

International academic at Early Childhood Education talks about fear

Posted on August 14, 2018

The Department of Early Childhood Education cordially invited an international guest to do a presentation on Fear.

Discussion with Principals from early learning centres

Posted on February 16, 2018

Discussion with Principals Principals from early learning centres (ECEC) (age 0 – 5 years) schools in Pretoria, together with JVK 400 students had a very successful panel discussion on 2 November 2017 at Groenkloof Campus.

Dr Roy Venketsamy in Japan

Posted on February 16, 2018

Dr Roy Venketsamy, from the Department of Early Childhood Education, recently attended a lesson Study Workshop at Naruto University of Education in Japan. This was done in partnership with the University of Pretoria, the Department of Basic Education in Pretoria, and the Japan International...

Early Childhood Education and Humanities Education in orientation of Master’s students

Posted on February 16, 2018

In October, the Departments of Humanities Education and Early Childhood Education combined forces to present a scheduled orientation for the NMQ 801 module related to the intake of new M Ed students who have been accepted for 2018. The purpose of this orientation weekend was to support these...