Degrees Held
- Bachelor of Arts, Cape Town, 1980
- Higher Diploma in Education (P.G.) Secondary, Cape Town, 1990
- Master of City and Regional Planning, Cape Town, 2000
- Doctorate of Philosophy, Rhodes, 2021 (Graduation in October 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
- Geography Education
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Education for Climate Change
- Water Security
- Mountain-Oriented Education
- Regional studies
Teaching Interests
- Geography Education Methodology
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Education for Climate Change
- Understanding Research
Selected
Publications
Books
- Khan, A., Dickinson, J. and Heath, G. 2014. Teaching water. Fundisa for Change Programme. Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.
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.
Conference Proceedings
- Heath, G. (2017). The territorial labelling of a heritage site in the north eastern Cape Drakensberg, South Africa- the case of the Linton Cave. Les carnets du LabEx ITEM. https://labexitem.hypotheses.org/567.
Community Involvement
- 2016-2021. Community Engagement Committee Representative.
- Khan, A., Dickinson, J. and Heath, G. (2014). Teaching water (study guide). Fundisa for Change Programme. Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.
- 2020-2022. Keep-it-Cool Education for Climate Change project. https://www.vvob.org/en/programmes/south-africa-keep-it-cool-climate-change-education
- Vogel, C., Misser, S., Vallab, P., Brundrit, S., Heath, G.E.C., & Manik, S. (2021). Teaching Climate Change (study guide). Fundisa for Change Programme. Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.
- Member of the Mountain Club of South Africa, and Corporate Member of the South African Planning Institute.
Teaching Expertise
- EDGO212 Development Studies
- EDGO214 Mapwork & GIS
- EDGG210 Introduction to Physical and Human Geography
- EDGG220 Settlement Geography
- EDGG410 Climatology
- EDGO311 Climatology
- EDGG301 Geography Methodology 2
- EDGG701 Critical Discourses in Geography Education
Students
Supervision
One master’s student 2015-2017
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).