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The Rhodes University Department of Secondary and Post Schooling Education (SPSE) is staffed with dedicated staff and students who are committed to educational and socio-economic redress and transformation within the challenging post-colonial context of South Africa and our continent. Central to these ideals is our commitment to supporting multilingualism,digital education, literacy, and numeracy, interdisciplinary approaches, extensive subject knowledge including indigenous and other situated knowledge, creative and innovative classroom pedagogies (such as play-based and experiential learning), and critical assessment practices.
We aim to cultivate competent, creative, and reflective Foundation Phase teachers who can understand and adapt their teaching for diverse learning contexts.
Our expanding programs in leadership and management, mathematics,science,ICT,, mathematics education, multilingualism, STEAM Education, and Education for Sustainable Development lead and Environmental learning education contribute to international research programs and attract high-quality researchers from across Africa. These researchers explore effective teaching and learning processes and engage in practice-based research to develop scholarly solutions for contextually relevant educational challenges, addressing local and global sustainability education needs. Our postgraduate scholars benefit from a series of research design courses, doctoral weeks, and research schools to support their academic endeavours.
Shape the Future of Education
Join a passionate community at Rhodes University’s Department of Secondary and Post Schooling Education. Here, you will work alongside educators and researchers who challenge inequality and reimagine teaching for diverse South African classrooms. Whether you are interested in creative ICT in Education, science, mathematics, environmental learning education,pedagogy, language,multilingual learning, or sustainability in education—this is where meaningful change begins.
The Honours degree prepares students for research-based postgraduate studies. It is offered on a part-time basis over two years. A number of B Ed Hons specialisms are offered in the Education Faculty. The first year of the degree is common to all the Hons degrees. Educational Issues and Ideas
(30 C) and Research in Education (30 credits) constitute this foundation year.
Two of the specialisms have their home in the Department of Secondary and Post Schooling Education.
The two specialism courses (each 30 credits) constitute the second year of the degree.
Our expanding research programmes in leadership and management, creative arts, mathematics , ICT, language, inclusive education, multilingualism, STEAM Education and Education for Sustainable Development lead and contribute to international research programmes and attract high-quality researchers from around Africa. These researchers explore enabling teaching and learning processes and practice engaged research, in which they develop scholarly solutions for contextually relevant education challenges, and address local and global
sustainability education needs. Our postgraduate scholars are supported by a long-standing series of research design courses, doctoral weeks and research schools.