Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies
College of Education |
School of Teacher Education |
Department: Curriculum and Instructional Studies |
Associate Professor
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Tel: |
012 429 6210
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E-mail: |
nkonyva@unisa.ac.za
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Expertise
- Curriculum studies
- Decolonisation pedagogy
- Gratitude in Education (GiE)
- Rural education
- Teacher development
Qualifications
- DTech
- MEd
- Bed
- BA Ed
- PGDE in EdPsy
- PTC
Fields of academic interests
Research interest:
- Decolonization Pedagogy; Ubuntu as a research theory; Africanization of curriculum; poverty, socio-economic class and race issues and how these manifest themselves in education (academic performance), especially of the rural communities
Projects
- Vhembe District Project on improving performance in Maths and Science; The 500 schools Project on improvement of learner performance in South African underperforming schools.
Other
Postgraduate Supervision:
- Supervising 10 MEd students