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Welcome to the Faculty of Education webpage! As Dean, I feel privileged to lead a faculty that places our connectedness with each other at the heart of our work. This is something we foreground, as Education does not rely on a single disciplinary base. We reach excellence through our interaction with each other, enabling us to draw on different disciplines.
We are a Faculty with sites of delivery in more than one campus. We are located on two campuses namely, Bloemfontein and Qwa Qwa.
The Faculty of Education educates teachers in several disciplines. Our one role is to prepare pre-service teachers for their work in schools, ensuring that they have a strong disciplinary base for their professional work. A second major role is the teaching of in-service teachers. This work is informed by and closely related to our research and community outreach.
We bring to our work a keen interest in the local context, as the opportunity for exploring issues that are universal in education. We work closely with schools and other sites of education, and attempt to keep theory and practice in dialogue with each other.
The Faculty offers a wide range of undergraduate degrees and diplomas as well as postgraduate certificates, Honours, Masters and Doctoral studies programmes. We place a high value on students as central to our work. Most students are currently in our undergraduate Bachelor of Education degree. These students are mostly preparing to be teachers in primary and secondary schools. In the postgraduate area, we offer Honours degrees, Masters degrees and a Doctoral programme. Within the continuing education sector, we offer the Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE), National Professional Diploma in Education (NPDE) and numerous short courses.
We have a diverse and experienced staff who are specialists within their disciplines, but also collaborate in inter-disciplinary work in teaching and research. For specific information, follow the Staff link on our Web page.
Research by staff of the School includes work that is focused on issues of teaching and learning in specific disciplines, as well as research that focuses on more general matters – educational contexts, social issues, and curriculum more generally. Although teaching and learning is a major focus of our scholarship and teaching activities, it does not exhaust the range of educationally relevant challenges that interest our staff and students.
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