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Livhuwani David Nemakonde

BELINDA BANTHAM — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:22:06 +0000

Livhuwani David Nemakonde BELINDA BANTHAM Tue, 06/21/2022 - 11:22

Disaster studies

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Livhuwani David

Nemakonde

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Livhu is an Associate Professor in the School of Geo- and Spatial Sciences at North-West University in the Republic of South Africa. Livhuwani has been working in disaster risk reduction as an academic and a researcher since 2015. He holds a PhD in Public Management and Development from North-West University. The title of his thesis is “Integrating parallel structures for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in Southern Africa Development Community”. He is the current chairperson of the Disaster Risk Science Scientific Committee in the Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management. Since joining the ACDS in 2015 Prof Nemakonde has published a several peer reviewed papers and book chapters and supervised several Ph.D. and Masters’ students. Livhu’s research interests include disaster risk governance, climate change adaptation, systems thinking and building community resilience.

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Elsa Mentz

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:56:57 +0000

Elsa Mentz BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 10/31/2018 - 11:56

Self-Directed Learning

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I started my professional career as high school Mathematics teacher and have been involved with teacher training for the past 25 years. For the past 16 years I have been actively involved with the training of Information Technology teachers and have already published two books and several research outputs in this field.

I am the Director of the Research Focus Area Self-Directed Learning since 2014.

As professor in Computer Science education my passion is education and specifically the studying of teaching-learning strategies for effective teaching to promote self-directed learning among students. Self-directed Learning is a process where the individual takes initiative and responsibility for his/her own learning by consulting specific resources, formulating objectives and by continuously evaluating whether these objectives have been achieved. In a world that is notably characterized by rapid change in the field of knowledge and technology, the employees of the future should be equipped with skills to study independently and for life. Students should be empowered with skills to accept the responsibility for their own learning for life by diagnosing their needs for learning and to put plans into practice in order to realizing them. South Africa can only progress in the numeracy and literacy ranks if we think innovatively and pay attention to making students self-directed learners. The teacher or lecturer should facilitate this process.

One of the teaching-learning strategies that is the focus of my research is cooperative learning. Cooperative learning is a teaching-learning strategy that empowers students to share in each other’s learning, but at the same time, to enhance their own learning process and self-directedness. I was privileged to receive two big research project awards, of which one was international, of more than R1 million to research the above-mentioned aspects.

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Kobus van der Walt

PERTUNIA THULO — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:52:51 +0000

Kobus van der Walt PERTUNIA THULO Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:52

Environmental Science

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Kobus van der Walt joined the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education as lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies in 1990. In 1993 he obtained a Ph.D. degree on the dispersion of asbestos fibres from disused tailings dumps into the environment, and was promoted to senior lecturer in Geography and Environmental studies in 1994. Subsequently, he completed further training in Environmental Law, Environmental Audit, Groundwater management, Hydrological Simulation, State of the Environment Reporting on the Internet and Project Management. He served as Chairman of Geography & Environmental Studies for several years, and has been the boarding house master of Excelsior men's hostel of the Potchefstroom Campus of the North West University from 1997 to 2005. In 2003 he was promoted to Associate Professor and in 2010 to Professor in the Philosophy of Natural Sciences and Technology.

Kobus specialises in environmental management, hydrology, integrated catchment management and geomorphology and is registered with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions as a Professional Natural Scientist (Environmental Science), as well as with NQA as Environmental Auditor. He has supervised 51 masters and 10 PhD students in his career thus far.

He has been author and co-author of more than 150 publications and reports, and acted as Guest Editor for several prestigious international scientific journals. He has made numerous presentations at academic conferences and is regularly invited as guest speaker at conventions and meetings. He also presents the weekly "Omgewingspraatjie" (Environmental talk) on the national Afrikaans radio station (RSG).

Kobus is married to Ina and they have three children, Lize, Sonja and Boeta.

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