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Lloyd Conley

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:47:53 +0000

Lloyd Conley BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 10/31/2022 - 15:47

Education management

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Lloyd

Executive Dean

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I am an Associate Professor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education (FEDU) at the North-West University. As executive Dean I am responsible for Leadership and Management across our three campuses namely Mahikeng, Van Der Bijl and Potchefstroom. In addition the FEDU is the second largest Faculty of Education in South Africa and we have a large contingent of Distance Learning (DL) students from across the country and also from SADEC countries. The Faculty is responsible for pre-service (Preset) and in-service (Inset)Teacher training . Furthermore, FEDU’s Inset programmes spans across the different levels of Basic Education in South Africa

Before my appointment as Dean, I was in the Department of Education Management and Leadership within the FEDU. My Teaching and research interest is in education leadership and management with the focus on instructional leadership (IL). IL was also the focus of the Education Leadership institute that I managed at my previous institution, University of Johannesburg. At UJ I established and managed the Education Leadership Institute with the following strategic goals:

• To generate and share new knowledge in the South African school leadership context

• To create a vibrant space for a community of leadership practitioners (COP’s)

• To facilitate systemic alignment between schools and districts in support of instruction leaders

• To develop, support and capacitate school leadership towards improved teaching and learning

• To build partnerships with organizations that promote and sustain leadership development.

At the ELI I collaborated with Harvard GraduateSschool for Education and we successfully implemented a systemic alignment programme.

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Jacques Rothmann

BELINDA BANTHAM — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 14:52:53 +0000

Jacques Rothmann BELINDA BANTHAM Thu, 06/17/2021 - 16:52

Masculinities; Sexualities; Gay studies

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Jacques

Associate professor in Sociology

Rothmann

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Jacques Rothmann is an associate professor in Sociology at the North-West University, Potchefstroom campus. His key research interests include gender and sexuality studies, with a particular focus on masculinity and gay studies. He has published on a number of gender and sexuality foci including gay masculinity and sexual identity in higher education. He established and convened the Lesbian, Gay and Queer Studies working group for the South African Sociological Association (SASA) and currently serves as chairperson for the Faculty of Humanities’ Human and Social Science Research Ethics Committee (HSSREC) and Basic and Social Science Research Ethics Committee.

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Rothmann, J. 2011: “South African gay fathers' parenting practices: from pathology to 'normalisation'”. Acta Academica, 43(1):39-78. http://www.ufs.ac.za/ActaAcademica
Rothmann, J. 2012: “Sociology as bridge over troubled waters: Establishing a link between the principles of lesbian and gay studies and queer theory”. The South African Review of Sociology, 43(1):41-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2012.678624
Rothmann, J. 2013: “‘Doing’ and ‘using’ sexual orientation: The role of gay male pornographic film in the identity construction of gay men”. The South African Review of Sociology, 43(3):21-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2013.817048
Rothmann, J. 2013. “‘Send in the (gay) clowns’: Will & Grace and Modern Family as ‘sensibly queer’”. Acta Academica, 45(4):40-83. http://www.ufs.ac.za/ActaAcademica
Rothmann, J. and Simmonds, S. 2015. “‘Othering’ non-normative sexualities through the objectification of “the homosexual”: Discursive discrimination by pre-service teachers”. Agenda, 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2015.1010288
De Wet, A., Rothmann, J. and Simmonds, S. 2016. “Human rights: Protecting sexual minorities or reinforcing the boundaries of ‘the closet”. South African Review of Sociology, 47(3):85-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2016.1163291
Rothmann, J. 2016. “The (De)Professionalisation of the gay male academic identity: Locking the closet door in South African tertiary education”. The South African Review of Sociology, 47(4):40-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2016.1182444
Rothmann, J. and Smit, R. (Guest editors) 2016. “Editorial”. The South African Review of Sociology, 47(3):1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2016.1218126
Rothmann, J. 2017. Book Review of Queering Families of Origin. Gender Questions, 4(1):1-4. https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-8457/3029
Rothmann, J. 2017. “The role of self-reflexivity on the part of gay male academics on South African University campuses”. Acta Academica, 49(1):1-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/24150479/aa49i1.4
Rothmann, J. 2017. Book Review of Troubling the Teaching and Learning of Gender and Sexuality Diversity Education in South African Schools. Jounal of LGBT Youth, 15(1):73-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2017.1392916
Rothmann, J. 2018. “‘To gay or not to gay, that’s the question’: Exploring the permeability between heterosexualization and homosexualization of public and private spaces of South African gay male academics and students”. Gender Questions, 6:1-24. https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-8457/2999
Du Plessis, A., Rothmann, J. and Botha, D. 2018. “A case of re-/de-traditionalisation of emphasised femininity? The potential influence of the spill-over model on white female academics in leadership positions”. The South African Review of Sociology, 49(2):61-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2018.1509725
Rothmann, J. 2018. “A social constructionist approach to resilience for LGBTIQ+ academics and students in South African universities”. Transformation in Higher Education, 30(0):1-8. https://doi.org/10.4102/the.v3i0.34
Tshilongo, T. and Rothmann, J. 2019. “A Sociological exploration of the need for safe spaces for lesbian and gay students on a South African University Campus”. Transformation in Higher Education, 40(0):1-12. https://doi.org/10.4102/the.v4i0.77
Rothmann, J. 2020. “Sexualities and sexual orientations”. (In Sociology: A Comprehensive South African Introduction, Paul Stewart & Johan Zaaiman (eds.). (pp. 181-205). Cape Town: Juta Publications.

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Jaco Hoffman

BELINDA BANTHAM — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 14:22:28 +0000

Jaco Hoffman BELINDA BANTHAM Thu, 06/17/2021 - 16:22

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Professor of Socio-Gerontology

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Jaco Hoffman (DPhil, Oxon) is Professor of Socio-Gerontology in the Optentia Research Unit, North-West University (Vanderbijlpark Campus), South Africa where he leads the Ageing and Generational Dynamics in Africa (AGenDA) programme. He is also Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, UK where he co-ordinates the UN endorsed African Research Network on Ageing (AFRAN). AFRAN brings together African and international institutions and individuals from academia, policy and practice to develop and expand African research and training capacity on ageing. He furthermore is an Honorary Professor in the Institute of Ageing in Africa, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, and was a past president of the South African Gerontological Association (SAGA) as well as a founding member of the South African Older Person’s Forum. Jaco co-directs, with Prof Sebastiana Kalula (UCT), the International Longevity Centre (ILC) – South Africa and is a Director of the International Federation of Ageing (IFA) Board. His research experience relates to the Social Sciences (Sociology, Anthropology) broadly with specialisation in the multi-disciplinary field of Socio-gerontology (including topics like HIV/AIDS, poverty, [long-term] care, families, community development).

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Marthie van der Walt

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:07:18 +0000

Marthie van der Walt BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 10/31/2018 - 12:07

Mathematics

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Marthie

Lecturer & Researcher: Mathematics Education

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My post-doctoral endeavours (since 2008) took me on a journey to become an established (NRF C2-rated) researcher within the metacognition research community in mathematics education. Based on my intellectual property stemming from my Master's and doctoral studies, I could give scholarly leadership to enhance metacognition in mathematics education. Since 2010 I was involved in several research projects such as being the architect and project leader in a SANAD research project; participating in the International Comparison of Mathematics Teachers Training project where I networked with academics from 12 countries - researching the affordances of lesson study in maths education; collaborating with both national and international scholars, e.g., Brock University Canada; University of Utrecht (SANPAD); Miami University, Ohio (Ann MacKenzie; Fulbright); University Khoi Kaen Thailand (Maittree Inprasitha); University of Massachusetts Lowell (Iman Chahine). I worked with the University of Plymouth in a community project in three primary schools (Mathematics Enhancement Programme South Africa). Currently, I am a co-investigator in two NRF-funded projects on the ‘Affordances of Indigenous Knowledge for Self-Directed Learning’ (with funding of R1 ,35 m), and ‘STEM teachers learning from I K holders’ (Ethno-mathematics) (with funding of R 1 ,07m) as well as ‘Teachers without borders creating Indigenous Knowledge Science Labs in Rural Schools (Fuchs Foundation) with prof. J de Beer. I designed Tshimologo Mathematics Shoestring Kit for teachers and learners. Through personal initiatives and subsequent projects and post graduate student supervision, I have contributed to a better understanding and recognition of metacognition in maths education in South Africa. Three students have graduated with doctoral and nine with masters’ degrees under my supervision. I was awarded title ‘Most productive supervisor’ of the 2015 HEMIS year at the faculty education sciences. My research niche found an epistemological home in the Research Focus Area Self-directed Learning.

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Martha Sophia van der Walt

PERTUNIA THULO — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:41:01 +0000

Martha Sophia van der Walt PERTUNIA THULO Thu, 08/07/2014 - 11:41

Self-Directed Learning

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Prof Marthie van der Walt completed both her MEd (2006) and PhD (2008) with Prof Kobus Maree (UP) as study leader/promoter. Both quantitative and qualitative research approaches are used in her research. Her research focuses on the possible value of meta-cognition for the teaching-learning of mathematics in the 21^st century to foster self-directed learning (SDL).

It is impossible for teachers/lecturers to impart all the knowledge needed by a particular age group of learners, pre- or in-service teachers, or might need in the future and, on the other hand: when they are equipped with meta-cognitive knowledge, strategies and skills – that cannot become obsolete – they are empowered to become independent lifelong learners who have a language to think about their own cognition and have skills to manage their own thinking/cognition.

She also adapted the Study Orientation questionnaire in Mathematics (Maree et al., 1997) with which Grade 7 to 12 learners, their mathematics and guidance teachers could be introduced to basic principles of the effective learning of Mathematics and on the basis of which their attention could be drawn to the important role of the environment, circumstances and background in which Mathematics is learnt and in which success can be achieved. The Basic Mathematics questionnaire in Mathematics (Primary) (BM(P)) and the Mathematics Vocabulary questionnaire (Primary) (MV(P)) were designed supplementary to the Study Orientation questionnaire in Mathematics (Primary) (SOM(P)). Three instruments (i.e., the simple yet useable SOM(P), the BM(P) and the MV(P) ( or TriMATHS) that dispose of good psychometric characteristics and for use among grade 4 to 7 learners, were developed. TriMATHS is available in Afrikaans, English, Setswana and Portuguese (Jopie van Rooyen Partners Psychological test providers in Africa info@jvrafrica.co.za)

She regularly peer-reviews manuscripts for publishing in national and international journals, and has published various articles and chapters in books herself nationally and internationally. She has also co-authored professional textbooks for school mathematics. She is/was study leader/promoter of several Master’s and PhD students.

She is/was project leader in several nationally and internationally funded research projects, for example an educational design research project: Using adapted lesson study to facilitate mathematics teachers’ meta-cognitive thinking skills (SANPAD project: 2011-June 2013). Her research also aims to contribute to theory building in Mathematics teaching and learning. Currently her focus is on metacognitive teaching-learning in higher education.

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