The NWU’s structure provides for three main pillars: teaching, learning and assessment; community engagement and stakeholder relationships; and research and innovation. Our mission for each pillar is:
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Teaching, Learning and Assessment
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Community engagement and stakeholder relationships
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Research and Innovation
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- Collaborating across our programmes and campuses;
- alleviate content gaps through systemic assessment;
- alignment of Contact and Distance-learning;
- teaching resources and community of collaborative teaching/ learning;
- integrated teaching/ learning (all subjects in EC & FP);
- teaching materials development: students develop materials for own teaching;
- ECDE: Enable critical reflection in class and among colleagues;
- NGO’s to be involved in teaching; and
- aligned rules for students (assignments, semester tests, eFundi).
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- Be an informant and place to network about interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and projects;
- support and raise awareness about funding opportunities:
- academic research
- external funders
- community (NGO) interventions;
- become the vehicle to inform our teaching and research activities;
- establish stakeholder-relationships and a space where community members can turn to assist with national policies;
- provide clear guidelines on sustainable CE-projects; and
- enable service-learning and student engagement.
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- disseminating information on all ECDE seminars/conferences;
- identify areas to focus on for research and topics related to the other two pillars of the NWU;
- know ECDE lecturers’ areas of expertise to support each other in research (discourse and workshops);
- conduct research on robotics (ECDE);
- collaboration and support of lecturers with other stakeholders;
- create opportunities to share strengths and networking;
- invite new/emerging lecturers to collaborate and learn from experts; and
- co-authorship among colleagues.
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