Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2023: Mathematics Education - (1013) at University of the Free State

Eligibility requirements:

• Open to all South African and foreign nationals for full-time research at the University if the Free State. 
• Graduated with a PhD degree in Mathematics Education within the last five years
• Successful applicants may not hold full-time salaried employment during the fellowship
• Successful applicants must be able to relocate to the UFS for the duration of the fellowship. This is a residential fellowship: the successful applicant is required to spend 80% of her/his postdoctoral period at the UFS.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Conduct innovative research and work with Research Chair in the following focus areas: Pre-service Mathematics Teacher Education in South Africa and the related challenges;  Provision of Continous Professional Development (CPD) in relation to the needs of mathematics teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools; Performance of learners in mathematics in the Senior and FET Phases and the relationship to the performance in mathematics at the University; The status of Primary Mathematics Teachers’ content knowledge and how this has changed over the past 10 years in South Africa; Mathematical Modeling and its Applications in school mathematics; Ethnomathematics and the Introduction of Ethnomathematical Approaches in the teaching and learning of school mathematics; Other Mathematics Education research focus in line with the focus and activities of the Research Chair .
• Author/co-author at least three (3) publication outputs per year in the form of DHET– accredited scholarly journal articles or books/chapters in books. The renewal of the fellowship beyond the first year depends on satisfactory performance and the submission of an annual progress report.
• Initiate projects and seek funding for them
• Register and reside as postdoctoral research fellow at the UFS and participate in relevant activities of the School of Postgraduate Studies and the Directorate of Research

Closing date:  
17 July 2023