Experience
- English teacher 1980 – 1996; Lecturer in Education 1996 – 2014; academic co-ordinator of PGCE programme and School Experience
Accomplishments
- Project leader of a number of rural school community projects
Awards
- Merit award for teaching
Research Interests
- Rural Education and Development issues
Teaching Interests
- Rural Education and Development issues
Supervision
- Rural education and curriculum
Community Involvement
- Rural schools development projects including the Wild Coast Rural Schools Partnership project; Sizisizwe /UKZN partnership project
Selected
Publications
Journal Articles
Book chapters
Journal Articles
- Pennefather , J (2008). Rural Schools and Universities: The use of partnerships as a teaching strategy in enhancing a positive response to rurality. Perspectives in Education, 26 (2), 81-94.
- Muthukrishna, N., Ramsuran, A., Pennefather, J., Naidoo,J & Jugmohan, P. (2007). Sense-making frameworks: Dominant, discursive constructions of learners and communities by teachers in the context of intersecting barriers to basic education. Perspectives in Education, 25 (1), 31-44.
Book chapters
- Pennefather, J. (2011). Landscape Shapes Mindscape: Partnerships as Agency in a Community of Learning. In F, Islam., C, Mitchell., N, De Lange., R, Balfour & M, Combrinck (eds.), School-University Partnerships for Educational Change in Rural South Africa. New York: Edwin Mellon Press.
- Pennefather, J. (2010). Rural Schools and Universities: Challenging a Negative Concept of Otherness towards Rural Communities L.Naidoo (ed.), Education Without Borders: Diversity in a Cosmopolitan Society. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
PhD Research
- Title: Across the river and up the hill: A case study of Student Teacher Learning in the Wild Coast Rural Schools Partnership Project.