TAU 1 (2015/2016)
Grand Finalé of the TAU 1 Fellowships Programme
14 – 19 July saw the grand finale of TAU 1 which took place at the Karridene Hotel, Durban.
The 50 candidates – academics committed to teaching and learning at 20 South African higher education institutions – engaged with each other about the scholarship of teaching and learning, teaching excellence and change and transformation over a period of 13 months. They have all achieved the requirements of the programme:
- managed an individual project
- participated in all the face to face and online learning activities
- contributed to an enquiry group process and report
- and are now officially “TAU Fellows”
The reports of their individual investigations and more details about the cohort are available on this site. The next TAU programme should be advertised via Deputy Vice Chancellors at all South African public higher education institutions during the first half of 2017. Here are some comments on the TAU experience by TAU Fellows:
It has changed the way I view Higher Education, and I finally view myself as an academic and a professional.
… as individual I have started to critically question my perspectives and beliefs and … started a transformative journey.
…these discussions were a source of inspiration for me and incredibly valuable.
By suspending discipline, hierarchy, power relations, and spaces that usually frame my professional identity…. placed me in a different context premised on a commitment to effective and responsible teaching and learning in contemporary South Africa. This was a very liberating experience and eventually one of deep reflection and learning . … We have learnt to shed aside institutional bias , our discipline masks and the importance of our titles and look at the one thing we all have in common – a passion for teaching.
TAU 1 Engagements: Unearthing Tinkerbell: Cultivating reflective practice in SITU
Professor Liqhwa Siziba from the North-West University Mafikeng Campus and TAU 2015 – 2016 Fellow delivered a keynote address at the NWU SOTL Conference on 22 September 2017. The title of her interactive and inspiring talk was: Unearthing Tinkerbell: Cultivating reflective practice in SITU.
TAU Fellows and Advisors, July 2016, Karridene Beach Hotel, Durban
TAU 2015/2016 Fellows
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Dept. of Clothing & Textile Technology
Passed Away
Critical Realism; post-graduate epistemological and ontological access and pedagogy; multilingualism in Higher Education; threshold concepts; concept-mapping for epistemological access; teaching and learning in Higher Education; teaching and learning in Emergency Medical Sciences.
Faculty Language Coordinator (Faculty of Education)
Moved to University of Fort Hare
Teaching- Learning in HE
Language Education
Education Policy Implementation
Professional Development of academic staff
Central University of Technology
Dept. Clinical Sciences
Research interest is the conversion of a recently developed student guide into an interactive E book or mobile application.
Radiography students spend weeks off campus at hospitals during work place learning and to have information regarding radiation safety requirements at hand will deepen learning and have the potential to engage the student to master the radiation safety requirements.
Dept. of Communication Sciences
Academic literacy, Organisational Communication and learner achievement.
Dept. of Information Technology
Moved to University of Johannesburg
Advancement in mobile technologies, Internet of Things, Communication Networks, as well as Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Durban University of Technology
Dept. of Dental Sciences
Moved to Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China
Metallographic structure of newly developed dental materials, and the teaching and learning through discipline-specific games to enable students’ access to, and acquisition of, knowledge.
Dept. of Homoeopathy
Dept. of Public Relations Management
Teaching, Learning and Assessments (Community Engagement, Graduate attributes, Student preparedness)
Enhancing student success Student Access
Communication
E-learning Public Relations
Mangosuthu University of Technology
Dept. of Accounting
Retired
The value and influence of foundational provisioning as a strategy to facilitate student success and address the issues of social redress.
How can we broaden the concept of quality education to include citizenry, social justice and redress.
Dept. of Maths and Sciences
Solution of Differential using the method of Lie symmetries. Impact on the use of technology in the teaching and learning of engineering mathematics at a University of Technology (E-Learning platform).
Dept. of Communications
Multilingualism in education and society, and management studies.
Nelson Mandela University
Faculty of Education
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Primary School Mathematics Education with special reference to ICT implementation and integration in education.
Teaching and Learning Specialist
Moved to University of Twente, Netherlands
I am interested in learning activity design research, with a particular focus on how technologies can be used to facilitate meaning-making.
North West University
School of Communication Studies
Corporate communication: reputation, branding, marketing and marketing communication in both the profit and not-for-profit sector.
Dept. of Academic Literacy
TAU Advisor
Action Research, Reflective practice, Innovative and Transformative teaching approaches, Identity and Discourse analysis.
School of Music
Retired
The relationship between texts, contexts and identity formation.
Voice pathology.
The use of technology in practical music education.
Rhodes University
Dept. of Human Kinetics & Ergonomics
Exercise interventions for cardiovascular health promotion in female populations and understanding fatigue mechanisms in intermittent sports such as cricket.
Dept. of Computer Science
ICTs in education, Advanced Learning Technologies (ALTs) and their relationship to learning styles/gender/culture, E-Learning, early learning, gender, critical sexualities.
Dept. of German Studies
20th century German literature, academic aspects of teaching, theory and practice of translation.
Stellenbosch University
Dept. of Visual Art
Dept. of Public Law
Administrative law
Public procurement regulation
Legal education
Director, Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health, Stellenbosch University
Health service development; health professions education; rural medical education; community-based education; human resources for rural health; family medicine.
Tshwane University of Technology
Dept. of Drama and Film
TAU Advisor
Post-dramatic theatre, theatre-making and devising practice, physical theatre and performance art.
University of Cape Town
Radiation detection and applications, and tertiary physics education.
Dept. of Accounting
Accounting Education, including:
- Challenges when educating professionals, educating for professional qualifications
- Curriculum development, including new programme development
- Accounting knowledge production and principle-based learning strategies
- Pedagogy relating to large class teaching and e-learning strategies
Chair of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, College of MedicineWorkplace-based learning, generic learning skills, diagnostic reasoning, clinical bedside teaching.
University of Fort Hare
Dept. of Law
Curriculum Development; Legal Education; Environmental Law, Customary Law, Jurisprudence.
Dept. of History
Retired
The 19th century interaction of colonial authorities, traditional rulers and the Christian missionaries, Wars of Resistance that punctuated most of the 19th century history of the North and South East Cape, and Nguni chieftainships with specific interest in the vicissitudes of abaThembu chieftainship.
Dept. of Information Systems
Teaching-related Research Interests:
• Factors impacting on Student Success
• Adjusting Assessment to Enhance Student Learning
• Plagiarism Awareness and Improving Student Writing
• Establishing Realistic Systems Development Project Environments
Discipline-specific Research Interests:
• Enhancing Citizen Participation in e-Government (Thuthuka-funded Project)
• Technology Trust Management for Business Improvement/Competitiveness
• Social Media and Privacy
• Green IT Policy Development
University of Free State
Teaching and learning manager for Economic and Management Science
Higher Education, Teaching and Learning.
Dept. of Anthropology
TAU Team
Transformative education, community engagement, culture and health.
University of Johannesburg
Dept. Business Management
Dept. of Radiography
Moved to University of Auckland, New Zealand
Role extension in Medical Imaging; Teaching, Learning and Assessment; Use of Technology in Teaching; Student Engagement.
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Dept. Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Limpopo
Academic Leader for Research, School of Built Environment and Development Studies
Moved to University of Kwa Zulu Natal
My research interests include the nature, extent and measurement and conceptions of poverty and inequality. I also look at the environment, anthropocene, climate change; community-based tourism, livelihoods and well-being; social protection and development management; project management and financial management.
Dept. of Science Education
Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Science Education
Nature of Science
Implementation Of CAPS
Teacher Education
Dept. of Physics
Computer modelling of materials
Energy efficiency projects
Physics Education
Issues in higher education
University of South Africa
Dept. of Health Studies
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
Orthogonal polynomials; quasi-orthogonal polynomials; special functions: Hypergeometric polynomials.
University of Pretoria
Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Early Childhood intervention, disability, participation and engagement, blended learning.
Dept. of Dental Management Sciences
Dental education (teaching and learning especially)
Self-regulated learning
Clinical reasoning
Bridging the gap between school and university
Health services research
Dept. of Chemistry
The application of organic synthesis for solving biological problems. I am involved in research collaborations with Biochemists where I can apply a chemical viewpoint in the interpretation of biochemical results. The ability to propose mechanisms to explain organic reactions is what I enjoy most about organic chemistry. I am excited about collaborative ventures to combine physical chemistry, organic chemistry and biochemistry to solve biochemical reaction mechanisms. I am a keen teacher of organic chemistry and want to apply the best education research and practice in my teaching.
University of Venda
Dept. of Psychology
Widows’ bereavement and related rituals, siblings of mentally retarded children, coping with special health care needs and parental support towards adolescents’ pregnancy, and adolescents and financial stress in the family.
University of Western Cape
Faculty of Arts
TAU Advisor
Current research explores ways in which subject locations structured around biological sex, gender, sexuality, race, class and other salient identities mediate and shape the possibilities for both teaching and learning.
Language Education
Moved to University of Zulu Land
Language and Literacy Education for basic and higher education, especially Teacher Education, with a special focus on multilingualism and multiliteracies and the development and intellectualisation of African languages, particularly for mathematics and science teaching and learning.
University of Witwatersrand
Dept. of Psychiatry
Medical: Traumatic Stress and related disorders, Forensic Psychiatry, (particularly female offenders), Psychotherapy (particularly CBT). Teaching and training/education: Resilience, self efficacy and self regulation aspects of teaching and learning.
Vaal University of Technology
Director of Work Integrated Learning
Walter Sisulu University
Faculty of Educational Sciences, Walter Sisulu University
Learning and Teaching of Secondary School Mathematics and Mathematics Teacher Education.
Dept. of Consumer Science: Food and Nutrition
Working with Indigenous communities – health issues relating to indigenous edible vegetables and herbs and how their views (IKS) can inform nutrition education and food product development as well as how the university and indigenous communities can pollinate each other in terms of sharing information and collaboration in issues of poverty alleviation/Food security.
TAU 2015/2016 Advisors
Rhodes University
Lecturer: Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL)
North-West University
University of Johannesburg
University of Cape Town
University of Venda
University of Cape Town
Language Development Group
University of the Witwatersrand
Head: Evaluation Services Unit (focused on evaluation of teaching and courses) at the Center for Learning, Teaching and Development, Witwatersrand.
University of KwaZulu-Natal
University of KwaZulu-Natal
University of Johannesburg
Senior Coordinator: Professional Academic Staff Development
University of the Western CapeTAU 2015/2016 Enquiry Group Posters
