Department of Psychology of Education

Prof MF Mubi

College of Education
School of Educational Studies
Department: Psychology of Education
Associate Professor
Tel: 012 429 8635
E-mail: mavusmf@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • PhD

Currently teaching

  • Classroom intervention strategies for teaching and learning support

Fields of academic interests

  • Educational Psychology
  • Inclusive Education

Field of Specialisation

  • Educational Psychology

Books

Mavuso MF, Maseko ND & Tabane RJ, (2017) Parent engagement in Primary and secondary schools. In Magano MD, Robinson, D & Mohapi, S (2017) Realigning Teacher Training in the 21st Century. Cengage Learning (Emea) Ltd. ISBN:978-1-4737-3351-0

Mavuso, MF. (2018). Multicultural Education in Empowering school culture and social structure in Tlale, LDN & Makhalemele, T (2018) integrating Multicultural Education into curriculum for decolonization: Benefits and challenges. Nova Science Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-53613-583-1

Paper presentations

2018

The 8th Annual Teacher Education and interdisciplinary Research Conference (TEIR)

  • Individual poster interactive presentation:

Autism and support: What can teachers do to support learners?

  • Group/Team presentation:
  • School space and social problems: teachers’ voices

2017

The 7th Teacher Education at a distance

Co-interaction poster presentation:

  • Supporting TVET lecturers in inclusive practices
  • Maximising student support in the OD -El context

2015

Association of Education and Development in Africa (2015)
Topic:
Invisible Learner-Marginalized by the Education System: Whose problem is it anyway?


Education Association of South Africa (EASA) 2014:
Topic: When all that matters is: “One Child a Day”. An Educational- Psychological intervention to place a child diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfector -Brittle Bone - Syndrome

Education Association of South Africa (EASA) 2012
Topic
: Learning Support framework for Supporting Learners with Specific Learning difficulties (Preliminary findings)

The Southern African Association for Learning and Educational Differences (SAALED) (2012)
Topic
: Using an Asset Based approach to establish an Institution level Support Team at an Early Childhood Centre of Excellence. (Co-presentation)

University of South Africa: Teacher Education Conference: 2011
Learning Support Framework for supporting learners presenting with Specific Learning Difficulties (An overview of the study)

2018: 38 Annual international seminar-Japan
Challenges and prospects of supporting learners with specific learning difficulties in the mainstream schools

First International Conference on teaching and learning through languages in the 21st Century

  • Topic: Challenges experienced by senior teachers in facilitating learning support: What can teachers do?

6th International Conference on Community Psychology 27 – 31 May 2016

  • Collaborative community intervention to place a learner with osteogenesis imperfector in one secondary school

2015

26th World Conference of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)

 

Projects

  • The dynamics on space and place in South African schools
  • Disability management for employees in an open and distance learning workplace