Degrees Held
- BA, Cape Town, 1989
- HDE (PG) Sec., Cape Town, 1990
- MCRP, Cape Town, 2000
- PhD, Rhodes, 2021
Experience
- Over 16 years’ service as lecturer in this field at this University. Five years’ service as a teacher.
Accomplishments
- Scholarship winner at the University of Cape
Town (2000), - Cape Education Department Merit Bursary (1987-1990),
- National Research Foundation PhD Scholarship 2014-2016
Research Interests
- Mountain-oriented education
- Mountain studies
- Mapwork education
- Fieldwork
Teaching Interests
- Research methodology
- Climatology
- Geography Education
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- Heath, G. 2017. The territorial labelling of a heritage site in the north eastern Cape Drakensberg, South Africa- the case of the Linton Cave. Article published in online journal Les carnets du LabEx ITEM. Grenoble, France.
Chapters in Books
- Heath, G. and O’Donoghue, R. (2021), Supporting Student Teachers to Teach Catchment and River Management in Geography. Schudel, I, Songqwaru, Z.,Tshiningayamwe, S. and Lotz-Sisitka, H. (Eds.), Teaching and Learning for Change: Education and Sustainability in South Africa (pp.103-120). Cape Town: African Minds. DOI: 10.47622/9781928502241.
Community Involvement
- 2020-2021, Keep-it-Cool Climate Change Education, Project to educate high school teachers about climate change
- 2016-2021, Cluster co-representative, Social Science Education
Teaching Expertise
- Understanding research
- Geography Education topics
- B Ed Hons Education for Sustainable Development and Education for Climate Change
Students Supervision
Honours
- Ayanda Africa (2019). Education for Climate Change at the FET Geography level in South Africa- a literature review.
- Ntombizodumo Mkhungo (2019). A Comparison on how sustainable development is taught between South African schools and United States (California) in the senior high school phase.
- Shaylen Naidoo (2020). Representation of tenets of climate change mitigation in South African Further Education and Training Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (Geography): A content analysis of relevant literature.
Masters
- Shaylen Naidoo (2021- ), Content analysis of relevant literature on how the tenets of climate change mitigation are represented in Geography Education modules at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Education (Edgewood Campus).