Prof Robert Balfour

Dekaan

Faculty of

Education SciencesAmptelike opening

30 Januarie 2015

Verbreed grense in en deur onderwys Expand boundaries in and through

education

Visie en missie / Vision and mission / Ponelopele le Maikemisetso

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

• 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.

Verbreed grense in en deur onderwys

Expand boundaries in and through educationVisie

Visie en missie / Vision and mission / Ponelopele le Maikemisetso

Verbreed grense in en deur onderwys

Expand boundaries in and through educationVisie

Missie-elemente / Mission elements:• Ontwikkeling en aflewering van gehalteprogramme vir die

onderwysprofessie / Developing and delivering quality programmes for the teaching profession

• Samewerking met gemeenskappe vir sosiale en opvoedkundige verandering / Collaborating with communities for social and educational change

• 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

2011 2012 2013 2014

Total Article Pub-lished

39 29 47 54

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Article output: 2011-2014

Ngwaga o fetileng...

Research output units

2011 2012 2013 2014

ROU/PAS per year 0.612 0.803 0.678 0.891

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ROU/PAS per year: 2011 - 2014

Die jaar wat verby is...

Nagraadse Graduandi 2011 – 2014

2011 2012 2013 20140

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MEdPhDTotal

  ICASApproved

DHETApproved

CHEApproved

SAQA

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)

 

Programmes awaiting approval

  ICASApproved

DHETApproved

CHEApproved

SAQA

PGDE (PGDip) (Distance)        - Special Needs        - Education Management and Leadership      ADE        - Special Needs Education (Distance) (On

condition)

 

- Education Leadership (develop as national programme) (Distance)

DBE development

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)

   

Programmes awaiting approval

  ICASApproved

DHETApproved

CHEApproved

SAQA

PGCE (ADT)       

- PGCE (ADT) (Contact)   

- PGCE (ADT) (Distance)   

ACT       

- Foundation Phase (On

condition)

 

- Intermediate Phase (On

condition)

 

- Senior Phase   

- Further Education and Training   

PGCE (ADT)       

- PGCE (ADT) (Contact)   

- PGCE (ADT) (Distance)   

ACT       

- Foundation Phase (On

condition)

 

Programmes awaiting approval

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• EnglishMEd 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

• Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)• Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University • The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)• Indira Gandhi National Open University • Amity University

Hoe konseptualiseer ons "reputasie-bou"?

Building Reputation

Rating the IoE (London and the No.1 spot on the QS rating system: • how do they do

it? • What can we

learn?

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

Building a reputation as Faculty for excellence in?

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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