Curriculum Studies
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Head of Department

Prof MLA Le Cordeur, STD (UWC), BEd (Unisa), BAHons (UWC), MEd, PhD (Stell)

FOKUS AREAS:

​Language Education and Language in Education

BIO NOTE:

Michael le Cordeur who chairs the Department of Curriculum Studies is full professor, NRF-rated researcher, a former language teacher, high school principal and Circuit Manager of Education. His research deals with learners' reading skills, language policies and language in education. He holds a doctorate from Stellenbosch University and qualifications from the Universities of the Western Cape, South Africa and Stellenbosch's Graduate School of Business. He is the author/ co-author/ editor of various books, book chapters and refereed articles and presented numerous papers nationally and internationally.  He has succesfully supervised various doctoral and masters students. As a regular columnist he has published 270 opinion pieces and was twice rewarded with the university's Media Award of Excellence. He served the community in various positions: Being the chair of the Western Cape Language Committee he co-authored the Western Cape Language Policy. Currently he serves on the board of directors of the Stigting vir Bemagtiging vir Afrikaans, and is a member of the Internationale Centrum voor het Afrikaans at Gent University and the International Association for Research in Language Education. Le Cordeur is the recipient of the Elisabeth Steijn medal from the South African Academy, five Rector Awards and Stellenbosch University's Chancellors Award. 

Office number:  4023

Phone number:  021 808 2265

Email address:  mlecorde@sun.ac.za

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Dr CG America, TDC (Pen Tech), BA, BAHons, MComm (UWC), PhD (Stell)

FOKUS AREA:

Business Education

BIO NOTE:

Carina America is a senior lecturer and subject co-ordinator of Business Education in the Faculty of Education at the Stellenbosch University.  She graduated from the University of the Western Cape with a Master's degree in Commerce and completed her PhD in Education at the University of Stellenbosch.  Her work and academic experience over the past three decades have been largely linked to business and business education.  After qualifying as a schoolteacher, she taught in the fields of Accounting, Economics and Business Studies.  Thereafter, she worked in the financial services sector, after which she joined the higher education sector as a commerce lecturer, first in a Business Faculty and then in an Education Faculty.  She has published in accredited journals and presented papers at various local and international conferences, focussing on issues related to in-service and pre-service teaching in Business Education.  ​She was also involved in research projects on curriculum and assessment for Umalusi and written several technical reports as the leader of the Business Studies team. She has and still is a supervisor and co-supervisor of postgraduate students and an external examiner for numerous masters and doctoral theses. She also regularly reviews articles written for publication related to Business Education.

Office number:  3010

Phone number:  021 808 3793​​​

Email address:  camerica@sun.ac.za

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Dr Zelda Barends, B Ed (US), B Ed Hons (US), M Ed (NWU), PhD (NWU)

FOKUS AREAS:

Language Education and Language in Education - Foundation Phase

BIO NOTE:

Zelda Barends is a lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies at the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Her research interests are within the broader field of early childhood education (5 – 9 years), with a particular focus on aspects of reading literacy, reading teachers professional development, foundation phase teacher education and work integrated learning. Zelda is a member of the South African Research Association for Early Child Education (SARAECE) and her published research papers has highlighted teachers content knowledge for reading literacy as well as using work integrated learning to better prepare reading literacy teachers.

Office number:  4015

Phone number:  021 808 3930

Email address:  zbarends@sun.ac.za

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Mrs Shannon Bishop-Swart

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Mrs Shannon Bishop-Swart holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from the University of Pretoria, an Associate Diploma in Drama from Trinity College in London, a Masters in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University, through a Fulbright scholarship, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Education Policy at Stellenbosch University. She has 21 years of local and international teaching experience, mostly high school English Language and Literature, and has held the positions of Head of English, Deputy Head of Academics and Lead Teacher Trainer. She has taught across 4 continents and is the co-founder of PACHEDO, an international education non-for-profit based in Uganda. Her passions include education equality, the use of technology in teaching, teacher training and English as a Second/Additional language (ESL/EAL). Before joining the Curriculum Studies department, she was the Intensive English Programme Coordinator and Lecturer at SU's Language Centre, working predominantly with international students wanting to improve their English Language skills, and managed 6 English Second Language (ESL) teachers and 4 programmes. She currently lectures English Language and Literature in the Curriculum studies department, teaching 1st and 3rd year English Language and Literature and the PGCE module: Language of Learning and Teaching (LoLT).

Office number:  3019

Phone number:  021 808 2282

Email address:  sbishop@sun.ac.za​


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 Dr ML Botha, BSc. Ed, BSc (Hons) Botany, MSc and PhD Plant Physiology (RAU)​

FOKUS AREAS:

Mathematics, Science and Technology​​​

BIO NOTE:

Dr Marie Louise Botha is a senior lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education at the University of Stellenbosch. She holds a BSc.Ed, BSc (Hons), Master's degree and Doctoral degree in Plant Physiology which she obtained from the then Rand Afrikaans University. She has published research articles in accredited journals and conference proceedings, presented papers nationally and internationally at various education conferences. She has edited, authored and co-authored various chapters in books regarding science teaching. Dr Botha is a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship on investigating the role of university-school relationships in enhancing science teacher education and training. Dr Botha is currently module coordinator for Natural- and Life Sciences, and Curriculum Studies. Dr Botha specalises and lectures in Natural Sciences in the BEd programme, and Life Sciences and Curriculum Studies in the PGCE and BEd Hons programmes. Her areas of interest includes curriculum inquiry, science teacher education, teaching and learning, teaching practice and mentorship. She has supervised and co-supervised MEd and PhD students successfully and has been an external examiner for numerous PhD and Masters' degree theses. She is a member of the South African Educational Research Association (SAERA) with special interest in the Curriculum Studies SIG.​

Office number:  4017

Phone number:  021 808 2293

Email address:  lbot@sun.ac.za

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 Dr N Edwards, BSc, HDE (PG Sec), BEd (Hons), MEd (UCT) , PhD (SU)​

FOKUS AREAS:

Mathematics, Science and Technology​​​​

BIO NOTE:

Nazeem Edwards is a senior lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies and is a former coordinator of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) programme in the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). His research interests are within the broader field of Science Education, with a particular focus on the development of students' conceptual understanding through inquiry-based science teaching. Dr Edwards has a keen interest in the use of computer-based simulations to expose students to multimodal representations of concepts.  He also works collaboratively with colleagues in Chemistry on the SUNCOI project to provide high school students opportunities to learn practical skills in the laboratory.  He has been a member of the South African Educational Research Association (SAERA) since its inauguration in 2013.

Office number:  4051

Phone number:  021 808 2291

Email address:  nedwards@sun.ac.za


Dr O Esau, BA, BEd (Hons),​​ MEd, PhD (UWC), Dip in Ed (Hewat)

FOKUS AREA:

Curriculum Studies

BIO NOTE:

Omar Esau is a senior lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Stellenbosch University. His teaching and research are in the fields of teacher education, curriculum development, action-research, HIV/Aids education, sport education and multi-cultural & multi-religious education. He holds PHD, MEd, BEd (Hons) and BA degrees from the University of the Western Cape. He started his teaching career at the age of 19 after completing a three years Diploma in Education at the Hewat Teachers College. During his teaching career of 23 years in the WCED, he acted and served as an Educator, Head of Department, Deputy Principal and Principal.

His master's and doctoral students work more broadly in school improvement and teacher development. As a specialist in emancipatory action research and sports and education, he published a book on Checkmating HIV/Aids as a Teacher Researcher in 2010. In his recent published works, he concentrates on preparing pre-service teachers for the diverse and multi-cultural classroom and for teaching in COVID-19 and beyond.​

Office number:  4020

Phone number:  021 808 3336

Email address:  oesau@sun.ac.za

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Prof BL Frick, B Home Econ, M Consumer Sc, PhD (Stell)

Director:  Centre for Higher and Adult Education

BIO NOTE​:

Liezel is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies and the director of the Centre for Higher and Adult Education at the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Her research interests are within the broader field of doctoral education, with a particular focus on aspects of doctoral creativity and originality, learning during the doctorate, and doctoral supervision. Her Master's and Doctoral students work more broadly within the fields of higher and adult education, where most tend to focus on workplace learning. Liezel is a member of the International Doctoral Education Research Network (IDERN), as well as the Special Interest Group of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) on Researcher Education and Careers. In 2015 she received the Best African Accomplished Educational Researcher Award for 2013-2014 by the African Development Institute (ADI) and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). She currently holds a South African National Research Foundation C1 rating.​

Office number:  3049

Phone number:  021 808 3807

Email address:  blf@sun.ac.za

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Dr MF Gierdien, BSc, HED (Cape Town), PhD (Michigan State) ​

FOKUS AREA:

Mathematics, Science and Technology​​​​​

BIONOTE:

Faaiz Gierdien works in the Department of Curriculum Studies as a senior mathematics educator. His research interests are in mathematics education and teacher education, with a particular focus on aspects of continuing professional development and the use of information and communications technology in relation to school mathematics reform.  His master's and doctoral students work more broadly within the field of mathematics education and its intersections with teacher education. Dr Gierdien is an associate editor of Pythagoras, the premier mathematics education journal in South Africa. Faaiz is currently a co-investigator in the Local Evidence-Driven Improvement of Mathematics Teaching and Learning Initiative (LEDIMTALI) based at the University of the Western Cape. During December 2017 he will be spending a sabbatical period at Hamburg University where he will be sharing his evolving expertise in continuing professional development-related issues. 

Office number:  4025

Phone number:  021 808 2289

Email address:  faaiz@sun.ac.za


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Ms Tarryn Halsall, B Ed (UKZN), B Ed Hons (UKZN), M Ed (UKZN)

FOKUS AREA:

History Education​

BIO NOTE:

Tarryn Halsall is a lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. She has been a High School teacher for the past 11 years and has taught History in South Africa an​d Vietnam. Her research interest lies in History education with particular focus on history textbook research.

Tarryn is currently working on her PHD which focuses on the representation of BRICS countries in South African history textbooks.

Office number: 4048

Phone number:  021 808 2108

Email Address: thalsall@sun.ac.za


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Dr PP Kese ,MTech (Pentech), PhD (SU), Assessor (ETDP SETA SoR No. 201433)​

FOKUS AREAS:

Language Education and Language in Education​

BIO NOTE:

Phumla Kese is a lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Stellenbosch University (SU).  Her Master's degree in Education Management entailed course work in Curriculum Studies and her   study was on listening practices to promote academic success.  Her PhD work is about the use of African languages for advancing discipline-specific academic literacy practices in a multilingual higher education environment.  She likes Onomastics as part of the African culture. Her research interests are on alternative ways of knowledge construction to supplement traditional pedagogical methods.  Phumla has deep passion for creative writing and story-telling in English/isiXhosa for literacy enhancement.  Her academic research initiatives are premised on Humanising Pedagogies and the Pedagogy of Presence.  She is a member of the Language Focus Group in the Department of Curriculum Studies, SU.  In 2016, she received Stellenbosch University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference Award for best practice-based presentation for a paper titled:  Story-telling for enhancing facilitation of listening comprehension: The homecoming of the spoken word.​

Office number:  2003

Phone number:  021 808 3971

Email address:  phumla@sun.ac.za

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 Dr E Lampen, BScHons (RAU), MEd (Stell), PhD (Witw)

FOKUS AREAS​:

Mathematics, Science and Technology

BIO NOTE:

Erna Lampen is a lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies at the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Her research interests are within the broader field of pre-service teacher education, with particular focus on aspects of learner and teacher identities in relation to problem-centred mathematics; learning to notice and respond to learner reasoning; and developing conceptual teacher talk specifically in the content areas of geometry and statistics. Her Master's and Doctoral students work broadly within school mathematics education and mathematics clubs. ​

Office number: 4026

Phone number:  021 808 2292

Email address:  ernalampen@sun.ac.za

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Agatha Lebethe, HDE (UWC), DME (UCT), MA (UCT)​

FOKUS AREAS:

Mathematics, Science and Technology​​​​​​

​BIO NOTE:

Agatha Lebethe is a lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies at the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Her experience and interests in primary mathematics education includes: the encouragement of mathematical thinking, purpose of multiple representations, young children's mathematical recording, the design of maths assessment questions and tasks, the research of own practice using the Discipline of Noticing , the narratives of beginner maths teachers and structure and trajectories within Primary Mathematics Curriculum.

Agatha is currently working on her PHD, which focuses on understanding the nature of measurement units in primary mathematics learning and possible teaching tasks and questions that allow for a theory of unit iteration.

Office number: 4024

Phone Number: 021 808 2286

Email address: alebethe@sun.ac.za ​

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Prof LLL le Grange, Distinguished Professor, BSc (UWC), HDE, BA, MEd (Cape Town), PhD (Stell)​

FOKUS AREAS:

Science Education and Environmental Education, Research Methodology, Curriculum Development​

BIO NOTE:

Lesley Le Grange is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Stellenbosch University. He holds a BSc degree from UWC, BA, HDE(P/G)sec, BEd, MEd cum laude from UCT and a PhD from SU. He is a former chair of the Department of Curriculum Studies and former Vice-Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. Lesley teaches and/or researches in the fields of environmental education, research methodology, science education, curriculum studies, higher education studies and assessment. He has 193 publications and serves on editorial boards of eight peer-reviewed journals. He has delivered 145 academic presentations (53 as invited speaker) and is recipient of several academic awards and prizes. He is a member of the Accreditation Committee of the Council on Higher Education in South Africa and Vice-President of the International Association of the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS). Lesley is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (UK) and a rated social scientist in South Africa.​

Office number:  4013

Phone number:  021 808 2280

Email address:  llg@sun.ac.za

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Prof CPS Reddy, BScHons, MPhil (UWC), PhD (Stell) ​

FOKUS AREAS:

Curriculum Studies, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Science & Technology​

BIONOTE:

Chris Reddy is an emeritus professor in the Department of Curriculum studies in the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. His research interests include Curriculum Studies, Environmental Education and Teacher Education. He has published regularly in all three areas and publications include journal articles, book chapters and popular articles in professional journals. He lectures on and co-ordinates post graduate teacher education programmes and co-ordinates the Masters in Education (MEd) in the Department of Curriculum Studies. Chris Reddy is also the co-ordinator of the Environmental Education Programme, University of Stellenbosch (EEPUS), a unit which does research and development work as part of social impact of the faculty. He has been awarded many research grants for conducting his research projects from parastatal organisations as well as private foundations and trusts. He has been involved with funded national research projects and also served as project leader for projects in Stellenbosch and other parts of the country with in-service teachers. ​

Email address:  cpsr@sun.ac.za

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 Prof M Robinson, BA (Cape Town), Drs Onderwijskunde (Leiden), HDE (Cape Town), MEd, DEd (UWC)​

BIONOTE:

Maureen Robinson is an emeritus professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies. She has worked as a high school teacher, teaching English and various others subjects at Windermere and Heideveld Senior Secondary Schools, and a lecturer and materials developer at the University of the Western Cape, teaching in the fields of action research and curriculum innovation. She has served as Dean of the Faculty of Education at two universities: the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (2002-2012) and Stellenbosch University (2012-2017). Her research interests are teacher education, professional learning and educational reform and she has published widely on this topic. She has served on the executives of various national and international policy structures, most recently the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) and the Education Deans' Forum. In 2013 she was a Fulbright scholar to the USA.  She currently holds a NRF C1 rating and was appointed as the president of the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) in 2021. ​

Email address:  mrobinson@sun.ac.za

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Mrs Chrischar Rock

BIO NOTE:

Mrs Chrischar Rock Ms Chrischar Rock is a citizenship, multiculturalism and human rights practitioner with twenty years professional teaching and facilitation experience in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Between 2001-2014 she held the post of Head of Citizenship at two inner-city comprehensive North London colleges, developing and advising on several educational initiatives to promote citizenship education, youth engagement and political literacy. For many years she served as a teacher training mentor at the Institute of Education (University College London) and as an associate curriculum content writer for the National Schools Partnership. Chrischar has acted as a Leadership Coach on the Mandela Washington Fellowship Programme for their Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). She is a Harvard Kennedy School of Government Executive Education Alumnis and holds a Masters' Degree in Education and International Development from UCL Institute of Education (UK), with a research focus on curriculum reform and teacher identity. In January 2017, Chrischar became a certified Master Instructor for the Institute for Leadership Development in Africa. Since her return to South Africa in 2015, Chrischar has channeled her professional experience to contribute to the evaluation and impact measurement of after school programmes in South Africa. This has included delivering short course programmes at Stellenbosch University to advance capacity building for practitioners who work in low and no-fee schools across the Western Cape. Currently, Chrischar is a Practical Learning lecturer in the Faculty of Education and co-ordinator of practical learning for all B.Ed cohorts. This position helps her to utilize her broad international teaching experience to contribute to the effective delivery of practical learning and preparing students for school-based practicum. Chrischar is also reading for her PhD, with a research focus on teachers' practices and perspectives in the delivery of democratic citizenship education in South African schools.

Office number:  4019

Phone number:  021 808 2194

Email address:  chrishar@sun.ac.za​

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Mr J Ruiters, DipEd (Dover College), FDE-Language-in-Education (UPE), Teacher Trainer Certificate (TVU-London), MA-ELT (TVU-London)​

FOKUS AREAS:

Language Education and Language in Education

​BIO NOTE:

John Ruiters is a lecturer: English Education in the Department of Curriculum Studies. His research interests are in Applied Linguistics, broadly, but more specifically in Language Policy and Planning, Multilingual Education, Integrating Language and Content, Teacher Education and Assessment for Learning. He teaches modules on Multilingual Education at PGCE and Honours level. John has completed a MA in English Language Teaching, and a Teacher Trainer Certificate at Thames Valley University in London. His current Doctoral research focusses on lecturer decision-making in complex multilingual settings.​

Office number:  3018

Phone number:  021 808 3968

Email address:  johnr@sun.ac.za


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Prof PN Rule, BA, BAHons, MA TESOL (London), HDipEdAd, PhD (Wits)​

BIO NOTE:

Peter Rule is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies and the Centre for Higher and Adult Education in the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. His research interests include various aspects of adult and higher education: adult learning in Africa; dialogue and learning; learning in relation to HIV and AIDS; disability and learning; community education; curriculum; students' conceptions of research; and case study research methodology. He has chaired the boards of a number of educational non-governmental organisations and is a member of Umalusi's Assessment Standards Committee and Research Forum. His books include, Dialogue and boundary learning (Sense Publishers, 2015) and, with Vaughn John, Your guide to case study research (Van Schaik, 2011).

Office number:

Phone number:  021 808 2297 

Email address:  prule2015@sun.ac.za

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Dr Kudzayi Savious Tarisayi, Dip Ed (UZ), BEd (MSU), MSc (NUST), PhD (UKZN)​

B​IO NOTE:

Kudzayi Tarisayi is a Geography lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education at the University of Stellenbosch. He holds a PhD in Social Science Education from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and qualifications from Midlands State University and National University of Science and Technology. He completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of KwaZulu-Natal focusing on teacher migration in South Africa. After completing a Diploma in Education at Hillside Teachers College, he started his teaching career as a high school teacher for 12 years. He has authored several journal articles on land reform, teacher migration and GIS pedagogy.​

Office number: 4050

Telephone number: 2645

 Email address: ktarisayi@sun.ac.za​

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 Dr Nompilo Tshuma, BBA (Andrews), MSc (NUST), PG Dip (HE) (Rhodes), PhD (Rhodes)​​​​

Centre for Higher and Adult Education​

BIO NOTE: 

Nompilo Tshuma is a lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies and the Centre for Higher and Adult Education, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University. She has been working with educational technology since 2005 as both a lecturer and an academic staff developer. Nompilo holds a PhD from Rhodes University which focused on exploring how academics develop a culture of resistance to counter the effects of a range of oppressive structural forces in the university, and how this resistance plays out in their integration of educational technology. Her current research broadly focuses on exploring a range of ICTs in higher education by interrogating the unequal and often oppressive social context within which technology integrations take place.

 Nompilo's current Masters and PhD students are researching a range of topics in Higher Education Studies, including educational technology, research administration, leadership and student performance. She coordinates and teaches on the regional Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education programme. She also teaches various modules in the MPhil in Higher Education and the MPhil in Life Long Learning in the Centre for Higher and Adult Education.

 Office number: 3048

Email address:  ntshuma@sun.ac.za

​Phone number:  021 808 3908

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Dr M van der Merwe, BA, Hons, MA, D.Litt (US) , B.Tech.Ond.cum laude (TSA​)

FOKUS AREAS:

Language Education and Language in Education​

BIO NOTE:

​Michele van der Merwe is a senior lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch where she lectures Afrikaans in the Curriculum Studies Department in the Faculty of Education.  She holds BA, BA Hons, MA and D.Litt. degrees from the University of Stellenbosch. Her professional qualifications include B.Tech.: Education: Tertiary cum laude from Technikon SA. Dr Van der Merwe is a NRF-rated researcher. Her research foci include lexicography, pedagogical lexicography, language education, and corpus linguistics.  Michele has presented various international conference papers on lexicography and has published in international journals on lexicography. Michele won the Nuffic scholarship for postdoctoral research at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, Erasmus+ Mobility for research visits at the University of Hildesheim, Germany and mobility grants at KU Leuven, Belgium. She has been a visiting scholar at the Arhus Business School in Denmark, University of Valladolid in Spain and Humboldt University in Germany. Michele lectured in the Emlex Masters programme (European Masters in Lexicography). She serves on the Board of Afrilex (African Association for Lexicography).  Her social impact projects include the South African Trilingual Wine Industry Dictionary (finalist for “ATKV Woordveertjie” in lexicography) as well as the MobiLex glossary, funded by Winetech and UCDG respectively) .

Office number:  4011

Telephone number:  021 808 2396

Email address:  michelevdm@sun.ac.za

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 Prof C van der Walt, NHD, MA (PU for CHE), DLitt (Pret); Vice-Dean (Research)

FOKUS AREAS:​

Language Education and Language in Education

BIO NOTE:

Christa van der Walt is professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her area of specialisation is in the use of English as a language of learning and teaching in multilingual contexts, at school and at tertiary level.  Her postgraduate students focus their projects on English language teaching, academic literacy development and curriculum change within multilingual contexts. She received the prestigious Von Humboldt fellowship and is editor of the academic journal Per Linguam. She is an NRF-rated researcher and sole author of a book Multilingual Higher Education: Beyond English-medium Orientations, published in 2013 by Multilingual Matters. Her latest book publications are Multilingual Universities in South Africa (2014, co-edited with Liesel Hibbert) and Academic Biliteracies: Multilingual Repertoires in Higher Education (2017, co-edited with David Palfreyman), both published by Multilingual Matters.​

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Phone number:  021 808 2284

Email address:  cvdwalt@sun.ac.za


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 Dr AS Xeketwana, BA (Rhodes), NOS (Rhodes), MA (Stell)

FOKUS AREA:​

IsiXhosa Education

BIONOTE: 

Simthembile Xeketwana is a lecturer in the Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). His research interest is within the language and education, in particular genre-based pedagogy in schools. He emphased on teaching different genres as per the CAPS specifications. His students are prepared to teach in South African schoo​ls, more especially with regards to teaching of isiXhosa. Simthembile is currently working on his Phd, where he is looking at the intersections between research, policy and practice. He is particularly interested in investigating the way previosly disadvantaged African Languages are being taught in schools.

​Office number:  2002

Phone number:  021 808 3935

Email address:  asx@sun.ac.za