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A great need for people trained in local and regional history exists across South Africa. This conclusion was reached by the historian and writer Dr Dan Sleigh and he shared it with those who attended the 17thannual conference of the South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT), hosted by Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Education at [...]

The Faculty of Education seminar programme invites you to its next seminar, on Friday 7 September at 14.00. The speaker is Prof Carol D Lee (Northwestern University, USA). Topic: Soaring Above the Clouds, Delving the Ocean’s Depths: Understanding the Ecologies of Human Learning and the Challenge for Education Science. (Her paper is attached.  We invite you to [...]

The gold medal that he received from the Society of South African Geographers was achieved on the shoulders of others – people like his parents and family, colleagues and people who, along with him, dedicate their lives to trying to create a better future for everyone through education. So says Prof Peter Beets of the [...]

Dr Ruth Albertyn, a research associate of the Centre for Higher and Adult Education, Faculty of Education has been awarded the 2012 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Emerald Publishers Literati Network. This was for excellence in her work on reviewing articles for the International Journal for Researcher Development (IJRD) in 2011.

Dear colleagues / post graduate students We hereby invite you to the first Faculty of Education seminar for this semester, organised by the Faculty’s seminar organising committee (Proff Cornelissen, Fataar and Reddy). The Friday seminar space is meant to showcase cutting edge scholarship, whether by local, national or international scholars.  Ideally, papers will be circulated [...]

Underperforming schools can perform better if principals and teachers are motivated to bring about the necessary changes. This was the view of Professor Jan Heystek of the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University (SU) in his inaugural lecture in SU’s CG Cillié Building on Tuesday (25 October). According to Heystek, principals must motivate teachers to [...]

Environmental Education can help us reverse some of the current ecological problems, said Prof Chris Reddy of the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University (SU) in his inaugural lecture in SU’s GG Cillié Building on Tuesday (13 September). According to Reddy, Environmental Education is one of the social agencies through which the transformation to an [...]

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Department of Education Policy Studies Faculty of Education Scope of research: A postdoctoral research fellowship in the area of philosophy of education is available in the Department of Education Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University. The successful candidate will be expected to do theoretical/conceptual research on education for democratic citizenship in [...]