C3-rating from National Research Foundation for Prof Ina Joubert

Prof Ina Joubert, who is a member of the World Education Research Association and serves on the management committee of the South African Research Association of Early Childhood Education (SARAECE) has recently received a late National Research Foundation rating of C.

She specialises in democratic citizenship education and the language education of the young child and has published articles on her research in these fields in accredited national and international journals. She is the author of several scholarly books on children’s experiences of their citizenship in democratic South Africa and assessment practices at higher education institutions, and has also contributed chapters to a number of subject-related books.

Prof Joubert has mentored postgraduate students to the completion of their studies in the fields of democratic citizenship education and language education in the Foundation Phase. Some of the students who completed their degrees under her supervision have excelled in their careers.