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Focus
Community-based Educational Research: Our research focuses not only on generating theoretical knowledge about the issue, but also on bringing about change on personal, institutional and community levels. As such, we can call it research as social change as the process has educational, political and emancipatory intent. An example…http://education.nwu.ac.za/community-based-educational-research-comber/objectives
Objectives
The main aim of COMBER is to: Facilitate the learning and development of people engaged in various education contexts, from pre-school through to adult education We conduct this research with members of the various communities to assist them to learn how to address in a sustainable way issues they identify as problematic. We…http://education.nwu.ac.za/community-based-educational-research-comber/strands
Subareas
[accordion collapsed] LANGUAGE LITERACY LITERATURE INITIATIVE FOR EMPOWERMENT (³LIFE) IN COMMUNITIES Subprogramme Leader : Prof C Nel Subprogramme Members: Prof A Oduaran, Prof C Botha, Dr M Meyer, Prof K Kaiser, Dr S Romylos, Prof E Marais, Dr C van der Vyver, Dr C Nel, Mr M Uys, Ms C…http://education.nwu.ac.za/community-based-educational-research-comber/members
Members
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Home
Community-based Educational Research is: Research that is defined as a partnership of students and community members who collaboratively engage in research with the purpose of solving a pressing educational problem to generate knowledge, skills and processes that will enhance sustainable learning and development. As such, the methodology…http://education.nwu.ac.za/research-and-innovation/hreid-home
HREiD home
This research group, consisting of academics and post-graduate students from a variety of tertiary institutions, was established to address human rights in education with the emphasis on gender, belief systems and cultural diversity contributing to human rights literacy. The need to engage in rigorous discussions on these issues arose as…http://education.nwu.ac.za/research-and-innovation/publications
Publications
Roux, C. (2010) Religious literacy and human rights literacy as prerequisite for human rights education. (In Durka, G. Gearon, L., de Souza, M. & Engebretson, K., eds. International handbook for inter-religious education. Dordrect, The Netherlands: Springer. 4:991–1015). Roux, C. (2011) Social Construct…http://education.nwu.ac.za/research-and-innovation/projects
Projects
Projects in progress 1. Human Rights Literacy: a quest for meaning 2012-2014 (NRF funded project) Bbrief magazine page 38 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…http://education.nwu.ac.za/research-and-innovation/special-interest-groups
Special Interest groups
Gender-based violations and trafficking: Human Rights Education in Diversity Vision: This special interest group of women scholar-activists in South Africa aims to redress gender-based violations and trafficking that often emanate in societies where economic disempowerment and poverty permeates through a focus on access to…http://library.nwu.ac.za/research-training