Isifundiswa sezesiNtu Siqokwe njengoMhleli Omkhulu WeJeneli i-Teaching and Teacher Education

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USolwazi Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan weSikole sezeMfundo uqokwe njengomhleli omkhulu wejeneli ehlanganise imikhakha ehlukene lomhlaba, i-Teaching and Teacher Education (i-TATE).

Ungumuntu wokuqala wasenyuvesi yase-Afrika ukungena kulesi sikhundla.

I-Teaching and Teacher Education, ehlose ukwandisa injulalwazi, ucwaningo, nokufundisa ingenye yamabhuku ocwaningo kwezemfundo ahlonishwayo emhlabeni kanti ithola iminikelo yemibhalo eyevile ku-2 000 minyaka yonke.

U-Pithouse-Morgan uzobambisana nabahleli abakhulu bejeneli nethimba labahleli bomhlaba wonke ukulawula indlela imibhalo ethunyelwayo exilongwa ngayo. Uzophinde abe neqhaza ezingxoxweni zokudingida intuthuko nokusimama kwejeneli.

‘Ngiyajabula ngokumenywa ukuthi ngithathe lo msebenzi. Ngilindele ukuthi lo msebenzi omusha ungenze ngikwazi ukuba negalelo elimqoka kwezocwaningo lwezemfundo emhlabeni wonke, ngilekelele ukuhlakula indima enhle yokucwaninga ezwana nomsebenzi wabacwaningi abasebasha nabacwaningi baseNingizimu yoMhlaba. Ngilindele ukubona izinto ezintsha engingazicobelela ozakwethu nabafundi bami e-UKZN,’ kusho u-Pithouse-Morgan.

U-Pithouse-Morgan ungumcwaningi owaziwayo kwi-South African National Research Foundation (i-NRF) osezingeni lika-B. Ubungoti bakhe busemkhakheni wokufunda, ogxile ekuqondeni nasekwesekeni kangcono othisha njengabafundi abaziqondayo nabazithuthukisayo. Umsebenzi wakhe uzale i-poetic professional learning okuyindlela yobuciko bezemfundo yocwaningo nokuthuthukisa indlela yokufundisa.

Omunye umphumela womsebenzi wocwaningo wakhe indlela entsha aqhamuke nayo ebizwa nge-polyvocal professional learning, eyavela ngemva kocwaningo lweminyaka eyisishiyagalombili ngokubambisana noSolwazi Anastasia P Samaras (wase-George Mason University, eMelika). Incwadi yabo eyethula lolu cwaningo, ethi Polyvocal professional learning through self-study research (Pithouse-Morgan & Samaras, 2015) yaqokelwa i-American Educational Research Association Qualitative Research Special Interest Group Outstanding Book Award yangowezi-2016. U-Pithouse-Morgan wayehola ithimba locwaningo elathola umklomelo i-South African Education Research Association for the Outstanding Peer Reviewed Chapter/Article Published by a South African Researcher ngonyaka wezi-2015.

Ngonyaka wezi-2018, u-Pithouse-Morgan wathola i-Distinguished Teachers’ Award yase-UKZN. Ngonyaka wezi-2019 waklonyeliswa nge-National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award i-Council on Higher Education (i-CHE) ne-Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa (i-HELTASA). 

Izincwadi zakamuva ezishicilelwe zifaka i-Memory Mosaics: Researching teacher professional learning through artful memory-work (Pithouse-Morgan, Pillay, & Mitchell, 2019). UnguSihlalo weSelf-Study of Teacher Education Practices Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (i-AERA) noMgqugquzeli weSelf-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group ye-South African Education Research Association (i-SAERA).

Amagama: ngu-Melissa Mungroo

Isithombe: Sithunyelwe