Flagship | Description | Project leader | Contact details | Niche areas |
Flagship 1: The Role of Education in Promoting Social Change in South Africa and Sweden | This project looks at the role of education in promoting social justice within a context of sustainable development, cultural diversity, inclusive education and citizenship. Specifically it sets out to explore the potential of teachers and learners as change agents in their respective countries and, it is to be hoped, globally. To do this, it looks closely at the curriculum in both Sweden and South Africa. | Prof L Mnguni | +27 12 429 4614 mngunle@unisa.ac.za |
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Flagship 2: Project for inclusive early childhood care and education (PIECCE) | This is a multi-sectoral teacher education project that aims to professionalise the sector by developing a standardised framework for the training of ECD practitioners working in the birth-to-four age group. Unisa is a leading partner, with five members from the Department of ECE and two members from the Department of Inclusive Education. The other collaborators are SAIDE, Bridge, Rhodes University and ten other universities and TVET colleges from around the country. | Prof H Ebrahim | +27 12 429 4583 ebrahhb@unisa.ac.za | 1 & 4 |
Flagship 3: The dynamics of teaching and learning spaces in South African schools | This project explores the manner in which South African school spaces enable or constrain optimal teaching and learning in various school contexts. The project further evaluates the manner in which school spaces may be organised either to change the constraining issues or to enhance the enabling ones for more effective teaching and learning processes in schools. | Dr N Madikizela-Madiya | +27 12 429 4698 madiyn@unisa.ac.za |
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Flagship 4: Supporting TVET Lecturers to obtain masters degrees through intensive cohort supervision | This is a clollaborative project between Unisa and TVET Colleges in North West and Free State. It supports a cohort of lecturers from TVET Colleges to attain their master’s degree. | Prof SP Mokoena | +27 12 429 3129 | 5 |
Flagship 5: The dynamics of higher education space and place in Sub-Saharan Africa | This is a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary and cross-border research project. The project focus on a least researched area in higher education research, namely the dynamics of space for academic practice. There is a dearth of research into higher education spaces from a comparative and philosophical point of view. The project seeks to understand the ways in which spaces enable or constrain academic practices, especially in the education field. | Dr N Madikizela-Madiya | +27 12 429 4698 madiyn@unisa.ac.za |
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Flagship 6: Effective student support for student success at the College of Education | The aim of the project is to investigate ways in which effective student support frameworks can be developed to leverage student success. Unisa is a mega university that is recognised as the only dedicated distance education provider on the African continent. However, concerns have been raised about the university’s student success rates. | Prof M Letseka | +27 12 429 8507 letsem@unisa.ac.za |
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Flagship 7: Interactive E - Assessment Teaching Practice Application (ATPA) For Teacher Education | The project involves the development of a Teaching Practice assessment application to be used during the Teachers' Training Program. In South Africa and elsewhere, this segment of teacher education is crucial during the training period of teachers. | Prof NM Davids | +27 12 429 6117 davidmn@unisa.ac.za | 5 |
Flagship 8: Evaluating Ethiopian postgraduate student support services in an open and distance learning institution | The aim of this research project is to evaluate the impact of student support services offered to the Ethiopian postgraduate students enrolled at Unisa. This multi-phase research project evaluates the postgraduate student support services offered to the Ethiopian students by the College of Education (CEDU) at the University of South Africa (Unisa). The focus is on student support services related to research initiatives and programmes facilitated by CEDU staff members to postgraduate students in Ethiopia. The CEDU postgraduate student support project is part of Unisa’s wide educational mandate, which emanated from a memorandum of understanding signed in 2008 by the government of Ethiopia and Unisa. | Prof MT Gumbo | +27 12 429 3339 gumbomt@unisa.ac.za |
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