Staff Member

Research Projects

Prof. Johan Wassermann

• Boer migration to Argentina
• History Education in an African context
• History of Education as it relates to the apartheid era
• Human rights, peace, and sustainability in Education
• Minorities and the minoritized in Colonial Natal
• PGCE History students and their views on School History
• Structural violence and collective victimhood in South Africa
• Teaching controversial issues
• Text and context and History textbooks in Africa
• Whiteness in the South African context
• Youth and Education

Dr. Denise Bentrovato

• History Education in an African context
• Structural violence and collective victimhood in South Africa
• Teaching controversial issues
• Text and context and History textbooks in Africa

Prof. Lizette De Jager           

• Integrating apps in language teaching through online collaboration
• Misunderstanding in instructional communication
• Transformation in assessment in English in Higher Education
• Translanguaging in action in English second language teaching

Dr. Sarina De Jager

• Academic integrity and student wellbeing during a pandemic
• Courageous conversations and citizenship education in Intercultural Professional Learning Communities
• Life Orientation in Higher Education
• Students in Higher Education experience of worthiness and vulnerability

Dr. Ronel de Villiers

• Foundation phase music education at Southern African Higher Education Institutions
• Music-Dance-Dance-Music interactive, experiential learning adventures
• Music Education concepts and activities integrated with the Life Skills curriculum
• Pushing and pulling forces for teacher educators to develop a multicultural, interdisciplinary framework
• Vignette research in South Africa
• Vignette moments of learning experiences in Higher Education between South Africa and Austria
• Website - Teaching and Learning experiences for music teachers

Dr. Annelize du Plessis-de Beer

• Mentoring in schools and higher education

Dr. Hannelie du Preez           

• Sensory ergonomics to construct conducive learning environments
• Innovative education in an institution of Higher Education
• Skills Learning Trajectories in an institution of Higher Education

Prof Pieter du Toit

• Educational professional development of early-career academics in health sciences
• First-year student feedback on the BCMP programme
• Auto-ethnographic study on guest lecturing
• The impact of the University of Pretoria nGAP Mentorship Programme on mentor- and mentee-identity formation

Dr. Gerhard Genis

• South African Poetry Project (ZAPP): Inspiring Poetic Creativity in Learners at Selected South African Schools by focusing on Indigenous Texts and Practices

Dr. Delene Human

• Censorship and proscription of the Visual Arts
• CPC Community Engagement Project
• Mentor Mentee Programme
• Professional Teacher Development projects in collaboration with Javett-UP Art Centre
• Visual-meaning making processes

Dr. Cherese Jones

• Teaching and learning of physical education in higher education
• Strokes and Counterstrokes: Transforming the Physical Education Swimming Curriculum at a Higher Education Institution
• Challenges for Physical Education in secondary schools

Dr. Xolani Khohliso

• African Languages as a transformation tool for TVET Colleges
• African language teaching in a Pan-Africanist context

Dr. Connie Makgabo           

• Folklore and African languages education 
• African language teaching in a Pan-Africanist context

Dr Nkhensani Maluleke           

• African language teaching in a Pan-Africanist context

Mr. Leepile Motlhaolwa

• Emergency Remote Learning - The Experiences of Higher Education Physical Education Students

Dr. Raita Steyn

• Promoting inclusion through Art education (i.e., visual impairment)
• Awareness aimed to eliminate expressions of discrimination, prejudices, and negative stereotypes (albinism)
• International collaboration through student exchange for educational awareness (i.e., Banners for Liberty)
• Afro-Byzantine religious art/culture in Nubia and Ethiopia
• Limpopo connection with Afro-Byzantina
• Lemba and Afro-Byzantina
• Frankokratia and Afro-Byzantina

Prof. Clinton van der Merwe

• Problem-based Learning in the Geography Classroom

Dr. Linette van der Merwe           

• Multimodality and the teaching of Afrikaans

Mr. LJ van Zyl

• Dual careers and students doing sport

Prof. Saloshna Vandeyar

• Born-free” student identities and their implications for educational change
• Decolonization of Education
• Learners and learning in a Pandemic: current trends, future designs, and policy options
• Leveraging Local Knowledge and Decolonial Frameworks to Transform Higher Education Contexts in the U.S. and South Africa.
• Pedagogy of Compassion
• Pre-service teacher’s identities and implications for classroom
• Reflections on a Pandemic: Disruptions, Distractions, and Discoveries
• Re-imagining Higher Education in Posthuman Times: Towards A More Capacious University
• Shattering the silence: Creating safe spaces to engage in dialogue about education protest actions
• Teachers and Teaching in a Pandemic: current trends, future designs, and policy options
• Youth and Education in transforming societies

Dr. Alta Vos

• Text and context in society

Dr. Yolandi Woest

• Professional identity and beginner teachers
• Autoethnographies for teachers