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Faculty of
Education Sciences
Amptelike opening
30 Januarie 2015
Prof Robert Balfour
Dekaan
Verbreed grense in en deur onderwys
Expand boundaries in and through education
Visie en missie / Vision and mission / Ponelopele le Maikemisetso
Verbreed grense in en deur onderwys
Expand boundaries in and through education
Missie-elemente / Mission elements:
• Omvorming van opvoedkundige akademieskap deur innoverende
praxis / Transforming education scholarship through innovative praxis
• Fasilitering, verspreiding en evaluering van kundigheid in ʼn
opvoedkundige konteks en bevordering van kritiese diskoers oor
onderwysbeleid en -praktyk / Facilitating, disseminating and evaluating
expertise in an educational context and promoting critical discourse on
education policies and practice
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Inisiëring en uitvoering van sosiaal-verantwoordbare opvoedkundige
navorsing in diverse kontekste / Initiating and conducting socially
responsible education research in diverse contexts
Voorstel vir goedkeuring tydens die Fakulteitsraadsvergadering, Februarie 2015.
Visie en missie / Vision and mission / Ponelopele le Maikemisetso
Verbreed grense in en deur onderwys
Expand boundaries in and through education
Missie-elemente / Mission elements:
• Ontwikkeling en aflewering van gehalteprogramme vir die
onderwysprofessie / Developing and delivering quality programmes for
the teaching profession
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Samewerking met gemeenskappe vir sosiale en opvoedkundige
verandering / Collaborating with communities for social and educational
change
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Inspirering van professionele opvoeders om agente vir verandering te
wees / Inspiring professional educators to be agents for change
Bevordering van lewenslange leer / Promoting lifelong learning
Proposal for approval during the Faculty Board Meeting, February 2015.
The year that's gone...
Article output
Article output: 2011-2014
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Total Article Published
2011
2012
2013
2014
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29
47
54
Ngwaga o fetileng...
Research output units
ROU/PAS per year: 2011 - 2014
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ROU/PAS per year
2011
2012
2013
2014
0.612
0.803
0.678
0.891
Die jaar wat verby is...
Nagraadse Graduandi 2011 – 2014
40
35
30
25
MEd
20
PhD
15
Total
10
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2011
2012
2013
2014
Programmes awaiting approval
ICAS
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DHET
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CHE
SAQA
Approved
Master’s degree
- MPhil in Higher Education
- MEd in Life Orientation (Contact)
- MEd in Life Orientation (Distance)
BEdHons
- Environmental Education (Contact)
- Life Orientation (Contact)
- Life Orientation (Distance)
- Business Sciences Education (Contact)
- Business Sciences Education (Distance)
- Early Childhood Development (Contact)
- Early Childhood Development (Distance)
- Education Law (Contact)
- History Education (Contact)
- Computer Applications Technology (Contact)
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Programmes awaiting approval
ICAS
Approved
DHET
Approved
CHE
SAQA
Approved
PGDE (PGDip) (Distance)
- Special Needs
- Education Management and Leadership
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ADE
- Special Needs Education (Distance)
- Education Leadership (develop as national
programme) (Distance)
DBE development
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condition)
BEd
- BEd Foundation Phase (Contact)
- BEd Foundation Phase (Distance)
- BEd Intermediate Phase (Contact)
- BEd Intermediate Phase (Distance)
- BEd Senior Phase and FET Teaching (Contact)
- BEd Senior Phase and FET Teaching
(Distance)
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Programmes awaiting approval
ICAS
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DHET
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CHE
SAQA
Approved
PGCE (ADT)
- PGCE (ADT) (Contact)
- PGCE (ADT) (Distance)
ACT
- Foundation Phase
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condition)
- Intermediate Phase
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- Senior Phase
- Further Education and Training
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PGCE (ADT)
- PGCE (ADT) (Contact)
- PGCE (ADT) (Distance)
ACT
- Foundation Phase
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condition)
Programmes to be developed
BEdHons
• BEdHons in Comparative and International Education (Contact)
• BEdHons, M en PhD in Language Education (Afrikaans, English and
Setswana) (Contact)
ADT (Technical and Vocational Teaching ) (Distance)
ADE
• Mathematics Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• English
MEd Structured Programmes
• MEd in Education for Sustainable Development
(International: partner Namibia)
• MEd in Comparative and International Education
(International: partners University of Crete and the University of Tainan as
partners); and
• MEd in Early Childhood Development.
MEd in Educational Psychology
Universiteite in Indië besoek
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Amity University
Building Reputation
Hoe konseptualiseer ons
"reputasie-bou"?
Rating the IoE
(London and the No.1
spot on the QS rating
system:
• how do they do it?
• What can we learn?
Building a reputation as Faculty for excellence in?
International relationships
(networks need strengthening)
National networks
(SACE, DHET, EDF, EASA etc.)
Regional resource building: KKJD, support networks, CE (we
need more flagships here)
Local network building: RTAS consolidation (innovative research for
teaching excellence), and curriculum making (curriculum guidelines)
Image Building: Inter-faculty openness, outreach, collaboration (the
MPhil, the new Health Sciences and FES focus area: COMPRES
NWU Conversations
New
models
New
ideals
How to
engage?
When to
engage?
Baie dankie aan die waarnemende dekane:
prof Kobus Mentz, prof Barry Richter, prof Cornelia Roux,
prof Willie van Vollenhoven en dr Herman van Vuuren,
asook die dekaanskantoor en skole se administratiewe kantore vir
u ondersteuning gedurende 2014.
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