Events

Prof. Elizabeth Mavhunga is a science teacher educator and a rated researcher in the Wits School of Education.  Her Inaugural lecture will reflect on the research struggles and successes in making explicit science teacher professional knowledge for teaching particular topics, a tacit construct theorised as Topic Specific Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TSPCK). All done in the context of poor learner achievement in Science in South Africa.  TSPCK is uniquely the domain of teachers and enables them to transform abstract content into a form that can easily be understood by their learners.  In her talk, she will elucidate the implications of the migration of teaching to digital platforms and provide possible solutions for a refined version of TSPCK which is responsive to the teaching of Science concepts in the digital realm.