Facilitators

Prof Gavin W. Maneveldt is currently the Head of the Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology and the Deputy Dean of Science responsible for Teaching and Learning in the faculty. Prof Maneveldt is a marine biologist with special interests in the global ecology and naming of calcified red seaweeds in which he obtained his PhD.  To this end, he has and still collaborates extensively with colleagues from as far afoot as Australia, Brazil, Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Taiwan, the UK and more recently the USA. More recently, he has become involved in collaborative research in documenting and understanding patterns of seaweed diversity along the coast of South Africa, its diversity for the public and education, developing and testing the bio-engineering concept of integrated land-based abalone and seaweed aquaculture, and the benefits of seaweeds and seaweed-based products in the diet of South African abalone. Prof Maneveldt is actively involved in environmental education and has become an active advocate of biological conservation.    He is passionate about nature photography, loves gardening, and between family and academic commitments, he finds the time for writing popular magazine articles.  Prof Maneveldt’s  goal (as one can never really know it all) is to gain as much knowledge of nature and the outdoors, and the social underpinnings of undergraduate education as he possibly can, pursuing his interests in a practical manner.	Dr Rita Kizito has spent the last thirty-two years in different educational sectors , beginning as a high school teacher, branching into teacher training and NGO work, then finally into curriculum design. She is now working as a Teaching and Learning Specialist at the Faculty of Natural Sciences , the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research interests focus on identifying ways of improving Science and Mathematics instruction in African contexts.
Sindiswa Sota and Valda Knoll are Science Faculty librarians; Zona Koen is one of the EMS Faculty librarians. Allison Fullard is Deputy Director of the Library and its representative on Senate Teaching and Learning Committee. Collectively, we have accumulated 99 years' experience of working with students, helping them to access and interpret information for their studies. Information literacy is a passion for each of us as we are always looking to improve our practice. We look forward to discovering with you how information literacy may be incorporated into your teaching.	Sherran Clarence is the coordinator of the UWC Writing Centre and a teaching and learning specialist in the Directorate of Teaching and Learning at UWC. She holds an MA from York University in Toronto in Women's Studies and has an academic background in Political Studies as well. She tutored on and coordinated academic literacy and development modules in the Humanities, Sciences and Commerce at UKZN for 4 years before joining UWC in 2009. She is currently completing her PhD in Higher Education Studies at Rhodes which is focused on theorising teaching and learning practices. She is also the managing editor of Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning (CriSTaL), a newly launched open access journal. Her research interests include the sociology of knowledge and pedagogic practice, the sociology of education, tutor development and support, writing centre theory and practice, and Legitimation Code Theory.
Mark Dammert has taught for 15 years and worked at Old Mutual for 15 years, most of time as a facilitator and 6 years as a Learning Leader. He was awarded the Workplace Hero in 2008. He developed myself at Old Mutual through completing his ETDP, assessor, Moderator and Wealth Management. This led him to becoming self-employed and now most of his contract work is for ARTG. The greatest value he lives by is respect for others and building healthy relationships. To be successful you have to keep learning even through adversity.   Dr Juliet Stoltenkamp, Head of the Centre for Innovative Educational and Communication Technologies (CIECT) at the University of the Western Cape - manages the integration and implementation of educational technologies; and cultivates leadership on a strategic, developmental and operational level. She has gained valuable working experience over 19 years as an educator; instructional designer; manager; and serving on academic institutional policy decision-making bodies in higher education institutions. Juliet has just completed her PhD study: An Integrated Approach to Implementing eLearning in a complex higher education setting: A case-study of the University of the Western Cape – which enables her to engage in teaching-and-learning discourse and deliberate key elements and challenges that the higher education sector has to take cognisance of during the development of an institutional strategic operational planning; and eLearning implementation. Juliet has contributed to the National eSkills Plan of Action (NESPA); and is part of the National Curriculum Working group for eSkills. She is the designer and coordinator of the Digital Inclusion: eCentre Management Programme within the Western Cape Knowledge Production and Coordination Hub. This programme is currently being rolled out across eCentres within the Western and Northern Cape, with a vision of national roll-out. Email: jstoltenkamp@uwc.ac.za or jstoltenkamp@gmail.com Contact: 021 959 3200/2501/3068 Dr Jonathan(Jon) Swanepoel is the co-ordinator for mathematics in the Extended Curriculum Programmes (ecp) for Science at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Previously he  graduated from UWC (mathematics and Applied mathematics), the Institute of Engineering and Topographical Surveyors of South Africa and persued a carrer in Civil Engineering. He changed from the engineering profession to pursue his interest in Mathematics and Mathematics Education. Subsequently completed a Master Degree at the University of Cape town (UCT) and completed his Ph.D at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. His interest also led him to do short courses at University of Leeds.U.K supported by a British Scholarship and the University of California, Santa Barbara. U.S.under a different scholarship.   During this period of his life he occupied, amongst others, the positions of Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) (then Peninsula Technikon, Bellville) and Director of Academic Development Programmes (extended curriculum programmes) at the University of Stellenbosch. He was also fortunate during this time to be involved, and to attract sponsorship, for the academic support of school learners in mathematics in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and the Northern Cape . At some instances these programmes involving more than 1000 school learners at a time.  Dr Swanepoel’s scholarly work is mainly in the field of mathematics education.   After retiring from the University of Stellenbosch, he lectured mathematics and mathematics education at Stellenbosch University, CPUT, and UWC and continues to make a contribution towards helping underprepared students (of mathematics) to be successful. Tongai Foto graduated with a BSc Maths and Statistics degree from the University of Zimbabwe in 2002. He worked as a statistician and Quants analyst for various companies in the financial sector in Zimbabwe before relocating to SA in January 2007. In December of the same year he completed his BSc hons in Statistics from University of Western Cape and followed with a Masters in Computational Finance from the same institution. Tongai is currently the coordinator and lecturer for Statistics in the ECP, as well as in the EMS department where he teaches Business Statistics. His research interests include African Financial markets, Financial Modelling and Stochastic Calculus. He is a member of both the AIFFA (Africa Institute for Forecasting and Financial Analysis) and the  SACNASP (South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions) In his spare time Tongai enjoys playing Golf and travelling.	Jackie Stemmers is a Consultant on various HR and Training related projects. She has approximately 20 years’ experience working in the Talent, Skills Development and Learning areas within Old Mutual SA with further experience in the NGO sector where she worked as a Programme Manager and within Skills Development when she worked for both the Transport and Insurance Sector Education Training Authorities (SETA’s). She has extensive experience in Learning and Skills Development having worked across different fields- Insurance Industry, NGO Sector and the Sector Education Training Authorities. She has also managed major projects when working in the Insurance industry and for the SETA’s and has Programme Management experience that was obtained while working in the NGO sector.  She also currently offers professional services that relates to the Coaching, Mentorship and Development of professionals. Carolynne Kies and Valentino van de Heyde are employed as Instructional designers within the Centre for Innovative Educational and Communication Technologies (CIECT) at the University of the Western Cape. Carolynne coordinates a team of 3 Instructional Designers. Together the team aims to enhance teaching-and-learning practices through encouraging the infusion/integration of educational technologies.  Judith Kathleen Jürgens I am a highly experienced teacher, having worked at all educational levels. I have taught since 1971 in a variety of schools, from nursery schools, through primary school and high schools to part-time work in technikons and universities. I have various diplomas and degrees, my last completed in 1998, a Master’s Degree in Educational Linguistics. My teaching experience spans more than forty years. Currently, I am the co-ordinator of the Introduction to Science module (ISC 153) at UWC. I have worked here since 2009, first in the EMS Faculty, then in the Science Faculty. After moving to Cape Town in 2008 from Johannesburg where I had worked at University of Johannesburg since 2004, I first worked at Bishops Diocesan College. Prior to that, I was a South African Sign Language Interpreter and materials developer and moderator for post-graduate degrees and diplomas in Deaf Education at Wits University. I am a very involved and proud grandmother of toddler Alice, and mother of three daughters. This last was my most difficult qualification and provided me with the most valuable experience in dealing with learning and young people. It was probably also my most rewarding experience. Dr Maryke Meerkotter (now Malan) I started out in 1994 as a first year student at UWC and always wanted to be a biology teacher or a social worker.  As a undergraduate students I enjoyed tutoring for many years and my desire for working with specifically first year students grew all the more.  I was a tutor co-ordinator and practical lecturer for a short while somewhere in the late 90’s and on the side I also taught arts and crafts at Annie Starck Children’s home in Athlone.  After completing my MSc in the Biodivesity and Conservation Biology Department I was asked to work at the Environmental Education and Resources Unit (EERU) at UWC and here we worked on several outreach programmes with schools and communities on the Westcoast. Then finally one of my dreams came true when I was accepted as Life Science lecturer in the ECP programme in 2008.  Since then I have enjoyed teaching students and specifically helping them see the importance and relevance of the topics they cover and helping them prepare for further academic studies.  Research wise I have done some surveys in the Philippi and Kraaifontein farming areas around the issue of heavy metal pollution on vegetable farms, and to me the greatest enjoyment I got out of that was to give feedback to the farmers about my findings and how it affects them.  I love working with people and hope to teach for many years to come in which ever capacity.  I got married on 21 March 2013 and am so proud of my husband who is now also studying at UWC. I also want to mention my parents who imbibed me with a love for teaching, both being teachers for many years.  My mom’s last years as a teacher was at Gugulethu Comprehensive Secondary School and my dad ended his years in formal teaching as dean of the Education faculty at UWC.