Postgraduate Development and Internationalisation

Conferences & Webinars

The Postgraduate Forum for Southern Africa invites you to a webinar on 'Dealing with the Challenges of Postgraduate Funding' - 28 October, 2024

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NICEC Conference 2024: Career and Sustainability - Skills, wellbeing and the environment (Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 July 2024)

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EASA webinar - AI and Machine Learning intensifies Digital Transformation in Higher Education ( 7 August 2024, 2pm )

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Dissertations

Snyman, C. (2023). Exploring escape rooms as a game-based learning approach to promote student motivation (Master's dissertation). University of Pretoria.

https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/93518

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Thesis

Machimana, E. G. (2017). Retrospective experiences of a rural school partnership: informing global citizenship as a higher education agenda

http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60954

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Community Projects

Lentšu la sechaba: The voice of the CE community. (2024). Department for Education Innovation, Unit for Community Engagement, University of Pretoria, Spring: September 2024, Vol 23, 1-25.

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Lentšu la sechaba: The voice of the CE community. (2024). Department for Education Innovation, Unit for Community Engagement, University of Pretoria, Winter: June 2024, Vol 22, 1-17.

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Journal articles

Kekana, M., Jordaan, M., Machimana, E., Mooa, R., & Legodi, H. 2023. Students’ Voices on How to Educate Communities about the Prevention of COVID-19 Using Robotics and Technological Innovation: A Transdisciplinary Research Approach. The International Journal of Technologies in Learning 30 (2): 83-102. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-0144/CGP/v30i02/83-102 (PDF)

Machimana, E. G., Sefotho, M, M., Ebersöhn, L., Shultz, L. (2021). Higher education uses community engagement-partnership as a research space to build knowledge. Educational Research for Policy and Practice. 20:45–62, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10671-020-09266-6. (PDF)

Machimana, E. G., Ebersöhn, L. & Sefotho M. M. (2020). Higher education community engagement as a pathway to developing global citizenship practices in young people: South African perspective, Citizenship Teaching & Learning, 15:3, pp. 371–387, doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/ctl_00040_1. (PDF)

Prof Raita Steyn

  • Desperate times call for desperate measures: Student wellbeing and academic integrity during and post the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Africa (PDF)
  • Challenging vision in Visual arts in the South African sociocultural Context (PDF)
  • The element of surprise: An innovative approach in art education (PDF)

Dr Susan Thuketana

  • A triple helix approach to address social and learner support needs in schools and communities (PDF)
  • Mutual benefits of an experiential learning community project in South Africa: Perceptual skills development and learning support (PDF)

Publications

Counselling for African contexts by Elias Mpofu ( Oxford University Press )

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XV edition of the "FORO POR LA VIDA" (Forum for Life) - reflections and essays from professors members of the Inclusion Committee at the Catholic University of Colombia, and was carried out also in collaboration with doctoral students from the University of Johannesburg

“Finally, our new text has come to light! We are proud to present the XV edition of the “FORO POR LA VIDA” (Forum for Life), driven by the University Student Wellbeing Office (thanks to Victor Diaz!), which features reflections and essays from professors members of the Inclusion Committee at the Catholic University of Colombia, and was carried out also in collaboration with doctoral students from the University of Johannesburg under the leadership of the renowned Professor Max Sefotho. We invite you to check out the texts in both Spanish and English, which focus on inclusive and intercultural educational experiences from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean!
A big thank you to the Ucatolica publishing team for their support! – Carlos Arturo Arias Sanabria “

( Original Linkedin post )