School of Education

The purpose of this multidisciplinary and qualitative study is to propose a relational leadership strategy to community engagement in rural contexts. Relational Leadership finds relevance as an approach that seeks to work for positive change in organisations whilst observing inclusivity, processes, empowerment, ethics and purposefulness (key elements of RL).

The aim of this self-study project was to explore strategies to cultivate an integrated learning approach in teaching Early Childhood Mathematics to first year pre-service teachers (Bachelor of Education students) who were specialising in Early Childhood Education (ECE)/ Foundation Phase (FP) Education.

This programme is directed towards creating an enabling environment to activate the quality of teaching and learning of postgraduate students, through developing the repertoire of technical, operational and conceptual dimensions required to supervise and manage research learning.