Prof
Robert
Balfour
Education
Research Professor
Deputy Vice-Chancellor:Teaching-Learning
Potchefstroom Campus
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Media and Addresses
- Address to UNISA on 4IR and Indigenous languages Development in Higher Education in SA: 17 October 2019
- Keynote Address to the HSRC Language Rites Colloquium (15-17 September, 2019).
- Publication: Wildsmith Cromarty and Balfour: Language learning and teaching in South African primary schools
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Address to the closing of the SAAGS Conference 26-28 August 2019:
- Read the address: The Entanglements of Knowledge Land and Learning.
- View the PowerPoint presentation: The Entanglements of Knowledge Land and Learning.
- Monolingualism gains the upper hand Mail&Guardian, 26 June 2019
- Opening address to the University (5 February 2019)
- Address for the opening of Gender Awareness Week (2 August 2018):
- Real Change in an Imagined Community: equality, action and social justice
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Address: to graduates of the NWU in Potchefstroom (30 July 2018):
The role of education in South Africa’s economic crisis: sustainability or survival? - NWU progress report on stakeholder input 30 May 2018
- Address to graduates of the NWU in Potchefstroom 25 May 2018
- Address to graduates of the NWU in Vanderbijlpark 10 May 2018
- Address: Apereo @ NWU: realising potential and exploring possibilities (Apereo Conference) 9 May 2018
- Address: NWU Annual Recognition of Excellence in Teaching and Learning event. 19 April 2017
- Address to Students of the NWU on Decolonisation history concepts and questions for the University 14 March 2018
- Address to graduates of NWU in Potchefstroom 2 March 2018
- NWU Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference on 21 September 2017. Address to the guests and staff of the NWU (Roots Conference Facility, Potchefstroom). Africa and the NWU: place, purpose and alignment of teaching and learning to transformation ideals and values in the next five years
- ConCourt ruling on UFS missed the point Mail&Guardian, 19 January 2018
- Language Rights in Education in South Africa
- Opening Address to University on 7 February 2018. NWU: a vision for excellence and social justice in teaching, learning and research transformation in 2018
- NWU Teaching Learning Strategy Presentation to NWU Student Leadership Training Seminar in 2017
Key documents
- 2018 NWU's Declaration on the Decolonisation of University Education
- 2018 Curriculum Transformation and Alignment Progress Report
- 2018 Mid-year report, DVC-TL
- NWU Teaching Learning Strategy
- 2018 NWU Declaration on Open Educational Resources
- 2017 Report on Phase 2 of the Quality Enhancement Project at the NWU
- 2017 Report on the Impact of the Teaching Development Grant of Student Success, Quality of Teachers and Teaching at NWU
- 2016 Report on Phase 1 of the Quality Enhancement Project at the NWU