Social Science Education
This Cluster offers courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
At undergraduate level, in the new Bachelor of Education, the following disciplines offer modules which prepare students to teach in the Intermediate, Senior and FET phases: Accounting Education; Business Management Education; Geography Education; History Education; and Life Orientation Education (including Physical Education). There are also pipeline Bachelor of Education modules which are on offer.
The Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) is offered in several disciplines and in some cases, across sites. Entry to the PGCE is dictated by the Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications (MRTEQ) document.
Four Bachelor of Education Honours degrees, namely, Gender Education Honours, History Education Honours, Social Justice Education Honours (Edgewood & Pmb) and Social Sciences in Education. All applications for these Honours degrees are ranked according to merit. Selections are made based on rankings of average weighting of Degree complete. Only a selected number of students are taken due to strict enrolment targets.
Full thesis Masters and Course work Masters (Pmb) as well as PhD supervision is offered in this cluster.
The permanent academic team in this Cluster is made up of three full professors, two associate professors, four senior lecturers and 16 lecturers. Fifteen members of the team have PhDs and the other colleagues are currently engaged in their PhD studies.
To be the leading inter-disciplinary cluster that promotes African scholarship through teaching, research and outreach in Social Sciences Education.
In the spirit of ‘uMuntu ngumuntu ngabantu’ [a person is a person through other people] we seek to become a leading cluster for teaching, research and outreach in Social Science Education
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