Projects

Projects in progress

 

1. Human Rights Literacy: a quest for meaning 2012-2014 (NRF funded project)

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2. Spaces of Mobility: Child Trafficking, Human Rights Violations and the Curriculum 2013-2015 (ANFASA funded project)

3. Education research for quality PhD study curriculum-making: a South African meta-study 2014-2016 (NRF funded project)

 

Projects completed

 

1. Human rights education in diversity: Empowering girls in rural and metropolitan school environments 2010-2013 (SANPAD funded project)

2. Understanding human rights through different belief systems: intercultural and interreligious dialogue 2005-2008 (SANPAD funded project)

3. Human Rights Education and transformative curriculum enquiry: a social sciences perspective (see CV of Prof Petro du Preez)

 

Theses and dissertations

1. The voice of the teacher in the context of religious freedom: a Kwazulu-Natal case study. (MEd - Jarvis, J)

2. Female teachers’ religious and cultural identities and gender equality in classroom practice. (PhD – Jarvis, J)

3. Facilitating human rights values across outcomes-based education and Waldorf education curricula. (MEd - Du Preez, P)

4. Dialogue as facilitation strategy: infusing the classroom with the culture of human rights. (PhD - Du Preez, P)

5. The experience of women leaders in the South African Democratic Teacher's Union (SADTU). (PhD - Mannah, S)

6. Primary school learners' understanding of human rights teaching-and-learning in classroom practice.  (MEd - Simmonds, S)

7. Curriculum implications for gender equity in Human Rights Education.  (PhD – Simmonds, S)

8. Sexual Harassment of Learners in Secondary Schools: An Education Law Perspective. (PhD - De Wet, A)

9. Curriculum and intra-dialogic spaces: consciousness and becoming in identity construction based on human rights values. (PhD - Becker, JA)

10. Feminist Perspectives on Integration, Progression and Infusion as Principles of Curriculum Design in Life Orientation. (ME - Kutu, MO)