Researcher for Maths education has received prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award
National Research Foundation awards head Professor Jill Adler for advancing calculi tutoring, exploration, and empowering calculi preceptors inpost-democratic SA.
The periodic National Research Foundation( NRF) Awards, which honour fat scientists behind some of the outstanding exploration done at South Africa’s advanced education institutions, took place in Durban, KwaZulu- Natal, on 31 August 2023.
NRF CEO Dr Fulufhelo Nelwamondo, said, “ The NRF Awards embody the NRF’s overall accreditation for the support and advancement of exploration and mortal capacity; our development of the country’s National Research installations; the fostering of public mindfulness and engagement with wisdom; and our commitment to the creation of the public wisdom system for public development. ”
In addition to the Continuance Achievement Award, the Research Excellence Award for Early Career/ Emerging Experimenter( Life Sciences) also went to Wits University, with Dr Ekene Emmanuel Nweke being recognised for his exploration in pancreatic and gallbladder cancer.
likewise, four head experimenters were again NRFA-rated while another entered anA-rating for the first time.
A continuance of mathematics education adds up to excellence
The NRF Continuance Achiever Award recognises an existent who has demonstrably made extraordinary benefactions to the development of wisdom in and for South Africa over an extended period. These benefactions must be of transnational standard and impact.
The Lifetime Achiever honoree, Wits Professor of Mathematics Education, Jill Adler, said, “ At a particular position, entering recognition of work done over numerous times, is enormous – indeed inviting. More astronomically, the award represents an acknowledgment, by the NRF who funded so important of my work, of the significance ofinter-linking exploration and development in the tutoring and literacy of mathematics. ”
The Lifetime Achiever award comes with a R50 000 entitlement, which Adler says will enable her to continue and enhance her current work on language- responsive- mathematics- tutoring, which she says is so critical in the South African environment and gaining further and further interest world-wide.
Academic’ mathactivism’
Professor Jill Adler is an NRF A1- rated experimenter, indicating that she’s recognised by all pundits as a leading scholar in her field internationally for the high quality and broad impact( beyond a narrow field of specialisation) of her exploration labors
She completed a BSc in Mathematics and Psychology at Wits in 1972 and a Secondary schoolteacher’s Parchment at the University of Cape Town in 1973, after which she tutored for three times.
In 1977 she joined the SACHED Trust, an educational NGO concerned with perfecting the quality of education of those underprivileged in intolerance South Africa. Adler’s work then, over a decade, enabled her to foster her social justice advocacy by perfecting mathematics education by developing and assessing distance education courses.
She was studying her MEd at head at this time and graduated cum laude in 1985 before joining academia in 1987. She harangued in the Department of Professional Studies at the Johannesburg College of Education before moving to the Wits Education Department where she worked similarly as a Lecturer, Head of Department, Professor and, from 2010 to 2019, as SARChI Chair of Mathematics Education.
Seminal exploration for preceptors to educate calculi in multilingual classrooms
Adler’s PhD, completed in 1996, looked at the dynamics of tutoring and literacy mathematics in multilingual classrooms, specifically examining secondary preceptors ’ knowledge in this environment. This was latterly published as a book.
This seminal exploration in early popular SA, along with a range of papers in peer- reviewed journals, has had a continuing impact on the broader field of mathematics education, furnishing precious perceptivity for preceptors and policymakers.
Her theoretical and practice- grounded inventions, which have paved the way for new and transformative approaches in mathematics education, address two abecedarian exploration problems the complications and challenges of tutoring and literacy mathematics in multilingual classrooms; and the improvement of professional education for mathematics preceptors, particularly in popular South Africa in the 1990s.
Adler took visionary way to establish a range of transformative advanced education programmes to address the poverties of intolerance schoolteacher training on mathematics preceptors. She designed programmes that empowered the exploration community, including a doctoral programme, all of which fostered a rich and dynamic exploration terrain for scholars and scholars to explore and advance mathematics education.
In 2005, Adler established the famed Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education at Wits, which came a mecca for advanced studies and innovative exploration and empowering preceptors.
As the DSI- NRF SARChI Research and Development Chair in Mathematics Education at Wits from 2010 to 2019, Adler directed a large professional development design, reaching over 200 secondary mathematics preceptors and numerous learners across 80 seminaries in Gauteng.
moment, the head Maths Connect Secondary design is a exploration- linked professional development design with the central thing of perfecting mathematics learning in academy through professional development of preceptors, and probing affiliated processes and problems.
On damage of her award last night, Adler said, “ The NRF has been a bedrock of my exploration post my PhD, through multiple exploration subventions over numerous times, supporting empirical work, graduate scholars, as well as openings for transnational conference participation.”
Dr Ekene Emmanuel Nweke won the Research Excellence Award for Early Career/ Emerging Researchers( Life Sciences), which recognised outstanding exploration performance by current early career/ arising experimenters in any discipline, who are NRF entitlement holders.
Nweke is a molecular biologist and a experimenter in the Department of Surgery in the School of Clinical Medicine at Wits.
His exploration interests include discovering biomarkers and illuminating the molecular mechanisms in the development and progression of pancreatic and gallbladder cancer amongst cases of African strain. Nweke is also interested in using perfection drug to ameliorate opinion and remedy for cancer cases.
He’s Y- rated by the NRF, which is a standing awarded to a promising youthful experimenter. He has published 17 papers and eight book chapters. Passionate about training and mentoring scholars, Nweke presently supervises six PhD and six Master’s scholars. He preliminarily successfully graduated two PhD and four Master’s scholars.
He’sco-chair of the Biospecimen Laboratory Analysis Committee in the African HepatoPancreatoBiliary Cancer Consortium( AHPBBC) and an administrative member of the Surgical Research Society of Southern Africa.
A Wits alumnus, Nweke attained his MSc in Molecular Biology( cum Laude) at this institution in 2015 and his PhD in 2017. Other accolades include a Wits University Inventor Award and the Bert Myburgh Research Prize. He was formerly the philanthropist of significant subventions, including an NRF Thuthuka entitlement.
NRFA-rates head experimenters( again)
In addition to the special Continuance Achiever and Arising Experimenter Awards, the NRF also presents conditions- grounded awards.
The NRF standing system is a crucial motorist in the NRF’s end to make a encyclopedically competitive wisdom system in South Africa. It’s a precious tool for benchmarking the quality of South Africa’s experimenters against the stylish in the world.
NRF conditions are allocated grounded on a experimenter’s recent exploration labors and impact, as perceived by transnational peer pundits. Several South African universities, including head, use the issues of the NRF evaluation and standing process to position themselves as exploration- ferocious institutions.
The Foundation awarded anA-rating for the first time to Wits experimenter Professor Kenneth Ozoemena in the School of Chemistry.
Professor Achille Mbembe, in the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research( WISER) entered anA-rating for the alternate time.
head experimenters whom the NRF in 2023A-rated for the third time include Shabir Madhi, Professor of Vaccinology and Dean of the Faculty of Health lores, Professor Lyn Wadley in the Evolutionary Studies Institute( ESI), and Professor Yevhen Zelenyuk in the School of Mathematics.
National Research Foundation awards head Professor Jill Adler for advancing calculi tutoring, exploration, and empowering calculi preceptors inpost-democratic SA.
The periodic National Research Foundation( NRF) Awards, which honour fat scientists behind some of the outstanding exploration done at South Africa’s advanced education institutions, took place in Durban, KwaZulu- Natal, on 31 August 2023.
NRF CEO Dr Fulufhelo Nelwamondo, said, “ The NRF Awards embody the NRF’s overall accreditation for the support and advancement of exploration and mortal capacity; our development of the country’s National Research installations; the fostering of public mindfulness and engagement with wisdom; and our commitment to the creation of the public wisdom system for public development. ”
In addition to the Continuance Achievement Award, the Research Excellence Award for Early Career/ Emerging Experimenter( Life Sciences) also went to Wits University, with Dr Ekene Emmanuel Nweke being recognised for his exploration in pancreatic and gallbladder cancer.
likewise, four head experimenters were again NRFA-rated while another entered anA-rating for the first time.
A continuance of mathematics education adds up to excellence
The NRF Continuance Achiever Award recognises an existent who has demonstrably made extraordinary benefactions to the development of wisdom in and for South Africa over an extended period. These benefactions must be of transnational standard and impact.
The Lifetime Achiever honoree, Wits Professor of Mathematics Education, Jill Adler, said, “ At a particular position, entering recognition of work done over numerous times, is enormous – indeed inviting. More astronomically, the award represents an acknowledgment, by the NRF who funded so important of my work, of the significance ofinter-linking exploration and development in the tutoring and literacy of mathematics. ”
The Lifetime Achiever award comes with a R50 000 entitlement, which Adler says will enable her to continue and enhance her current work on language- responsive- mathematics- tutoring, which she says is so critical in the South African environment and gaining further and further interest world-wide.
Academic’ mathactivism’
Professor Jill Adler is an NRF A1- rated experimenter, indicating that she’s recognised by all pundits as a leading scholar in her field internationally for the high quality and broad impact( beyond a narrow field of specialisation) of her exploration labors
She completed a BSc in Mathematics and Psychology at Wits in 1972 and a Secondary schoolteacher’s Parchment at the University of Cape Town in 1973, after which she tutored for three times.
In 1977 she joined the SACHED Trust, an educational NGO concerned with perfecting the quality of education of those underprivileged in intolerance South Africa. Adler’s work then, over a decade, enabled her to foster her social justice advocacy by perfecting mathematics education by developing and assessing distance education courses.
She was studying her MEd at head at this time and graduated cum laude in 1985 before joining academia in 1987. She harangued in the Department of Professional Studies at the Johannesburg College of Education before moving to the Wits Education Department where she worked similarly as a Lecturer, Head of Department, Professor and, from 2010 to 2019, as SARChI Chair of Mathematics Education.
Seminal exploration for preceptors to educate calculi in multilingual classrooms
Adler’s PhD, completed in 1996, looked at the dynamics of tutoring and literacy mathematics in multilingual classrooms, specifically examining secondary preceptors ’ knowledge in this environment. This was latterly published as a book.
This seminal exploration in early popular SA, along with a range of papers in peer- reviewed journals, has had a continuing impact on the broader field of mathematics education, furnishing precious perceptivity for preceptors and policymakers.
Her theoretical and practice- grounded inventions, which have paved the way for new and transformative approaches in mathematics education, address two abecedarian exploration problems the complications and challenges of tutoring and literacy mathematics in multilingual classrooms; and the improvement of professional education for mathematics preceptors, particularly in popular South Africa in the 1990s.
Adler took visionary way to establish a range of transformative advanced education programmes to address the poverties of intolerance schoolteacher training on mathematics preceptors. She designed programmes that empowered the exploration community, including a doctoral programme, all of which fostered a rich and dynamic exploration terrain for scholars and scholars to explore and advance mathematics education.
In 2005, Adler established the famed Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education at Wits, which came a mecca for advanced studies and innovative exploration and empowering preceptors.
As the DSI- NRF SARChI Research and Development Chair in Mathematics Education at Wits from 2010 to 2019, Adler directed a large professional development design, reaching over 200 secondary mathematics preceptors and numerous learners across 80 seminaries in Gauteng.
moment, the head Maths Connect Secondary design is a exploration- linked professional development design with the central thing of perfecting mathematics learning in academy through professional development of preceptors, and probing affiliated processes and problems.
On damage of her award last night, Adler said, “ The NRF has been a bedrock of my exploration post my PhD, through multiple exploration subventions over numerous times, supporting empirical work, graduate scholars, as well as openings for transnational conference participation.”
Dr Ekene Emmanuel Nweke won the Research Excellence Award for Early Career/ Emerging Researchers( Life Sciences), which recognised outstanding exploration performance by current early career/ arising experimenters in any discipline, who are NRF entitlement holders.
Nweke is a molecular biologist and a experimenter in the Department of Surgery in the School of Clinical Medicine at Wits.
His exploration interests include discovering biomarkers and illuminating the molecular mechanisms in the development and progression of pancreatic and gallbladder cancer amongst cases of African strain. Nweke is also interested in using perfection drug to ameliorate opinion and remedy for cancer cases.
He’s Y- rated by the NRF, which is a standing awarded to a promising youthful experimenter. He has published 17 papers and eight book chapters. Passionate about training and mentoring scholars, Nweke presently supervises six PhD and six Master’s scholars. He preliminarily successfully graduated two PhD and four Master’s scholars.
He’sco-chair of the Biospecimen Laboratory Analysis Committee in the African HepatoPancreatoBiliary Cancer Consortium( AHPBBC) and an administrative member of the Surgical Research Society of Southern Africa.
A Wits alumnus, Nweke attained his MSc in Molecular Biology( cum Laude) at this institution in 2015 and his PhD in 2017. Other accolades include a Wits University Inventor Award and the Bert Myburgh Research Prize. He was formerly the philanthropist of significant subventions, including an NRF Thuthuka entitlement.
NRFA-rates head experimenters( again)
In addition to the special Continuance Achiever and Arising Experimenter Awards, the NRF also presents conditions- grounded awards.
The NRF standing system is a crucial motorist in the NRF’s end to make a encyclopedically competitive wisdom system in South Africa. It’s a precious tool for benchmarking the quality of South Africa’s experimenters against the stylish in the world.
NRF conditions are allocated grounded on a experimenter’s recent exploration labors and impact, as perceived by transnational peer pundits. Several South African universities, including head, use the issues of the NRF evaluation and standing process to position themselves as exploration- ferocious institutions.
The Foundation awarded anA-rating for the first time to Wits experimenter Professor Kenneth Ozoemena in the School of Chemistry.
Professor Achille Mbembe, in the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research( WISER) entered anA-rating for the alternate time.
head experimenters whom the NRF in 2023A-rated for the third time include Shabir Madhi, Professor of Vaccinology and Dean of the Faculty of Health lores, Professor Lyn Wadley in the Evolutionary Studies Institute( ESI), and Professor Yevhen Zelenyuk in the School of Mathematics.