CORE TEAM

Dr. Helen Dunbar-Krige
TeachMe Programme Head and Senior Lecturer
Department of Educational Psychology, UJ
Helen is a registered educational psychologist who has a passion for children living with disabilities. She believes it is important that educators and parents should be made more aware of how to teach children with neuro-developmental disorders.
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Dr. Jean Fourie
TeachMe Programme Head and Lecturer
Department of Educational Psychology, UJ
Jean is a registered educational psychologist who focuses on inclusive education and learning support. She has extensive experience within special needs education and consults on various issues surrounding inclusive education and fostering inclusive communities of practice.
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RESEARCH SUPPORT TEAM

Daphne Mawila
Lecturer
Department of Educational Psychology, UJ
Daphne is a registered educational psychologist from Soweto. She has done research in conceptual development and the important role of language and translation in educational tests.
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Dr. Martyn van der Merwe
Senior Lecturer
Department of Educational Psychology, UJ
Martyn is a teacher educator who focuses on inclusive teaching and assisting newly qualified teachers through training to act as change agents in the profession.
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Dr. Boitumelo Diale
Head of Department
Department of Educational Psychology, UJ
Tumi is a registered educational psychologist who focuses on career development, the implementation of technical vocational education in the senior phase of the education system, and therapteutic intervention from an African perspective.
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Prof Maximus Sefotho
Senior Lecturer
Department of Educational Psychology, UJ
Passionate about Career Guidance, Disability, Philosophy of Education, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, he includes the excluded through hephapreneurship, a neology he coined for persons who are Neither in Education, Employment or Training. Dr Sefotho’s work is a socio-political act geared towards transformation and social change. He chooses to use the phrase ‘differently abled’ instead of ‘disability’ because he encourages ‘seeing abilities in disability’. He spans an extensive experience in career guidance.
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Prof Elias Mpofu
Distinguished Visiting Professor
Department of Educational Psychology, UJ
Elias is a professor of rehabilitation counselling at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests are community-oriented services, focussing on their design, implementation and evaluation in local and international community settings.
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Nonhlanhla Maseko
Lecturer
Department of Educational Psychology, UJ
Nonhlanhla is a specialist in Inclusive and Remedial Education, as well as Life Orientation, with a special research focus on caregiver’s support to sexually abused children with intellectual disabilities.
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Khosi Mabaso
Mrs Khosi (Nancy) Mabaso is a registered educational psychologist who is particularly interested in navigating how the context in which the individual children exist can be utilized as assets in the process of teaching and learning. Her bigger passion lies within getting her hands dirty while interacting with the contextual spaces and taking what the psychology fraternity can offer to the community level as a contribution towards promoting learning support.