Education graduate Dr Wendy Rawlinson received the Best Thesis award at the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) Conference hosted by the Durban University of Technology (DUT).
School of Education academics, Professor Ayub Sheik and Dr Norma Ngubane facilitated a reading and writing workshop for 200 teachers at the Pinetown Education District Hall as part of the School’s Language Education Cluster community outreach programme.
In response to the glaring gap in teacher development for multi-grade teaching, the School of Education hosted a one-day conversation circle on this phenomenon.
UKZN academics worked with Australian researchers on a project titled: The Plight of the Male Teacher: An Interdisciplinary and Multileveled Theoretical Framework for Researching a Shortage of Male Teachers.
Second year Education student Ms Khethokuhle Bhengu is thrilled to be the only candidate from South Africa to be selected to participate in a training programme for African Youth with Disabilities taking place in Egypt.
A group of Education students participated in a community engagement endeavour held by the African Midwife Organisation (Ababelethisi) in Ngoleleni, KwaZulu-Natal.
The Schools of Education and Religion, Philosophy and Classics, in collaboration with the University Language Planning and Development Office and the JL Dube Institute, hosted the annual John Dube Memorial Lecture at the Dulcie September Conference Centre on the Edgewood campus. Dube was the first president of the African National Congress (ANC) and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
As part of its community engagement and outreach programme, UKZN’s School of Education in the College of Humanities, participated in the inaugural Local Science Exhibition Day in Nquthu, northern KwaZulu-Natal hosted by Nquthu Local Municipality.
School of Education students shared their views on volunteering at a workshop hosted by Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) in uMlazi on, Community Engagement – what does student volunteerism in higher education entail?
UKZN in partnership with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) screened the student-centred documentary film: Ready or Not! Black Students’ Experiences of South African Universities.