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Dr Emmanuel Ojo

UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, SOUTH AFRICA
Lecturer
Johannesburg, South Africa
Over these years of my service at the School of Education, I have exclusively carried the teaching workload of Economics Education within the Economic & Management Sciences (EMS) stream of the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programme of the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) and the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). Besides this, I teach the Research Design course for postgraduate students (Honours, Master’s and PhD) at the School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. I am an active research supervisor mentoring undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in research aligned with my research profile. I am also able to explore possible interests my students come with as a learning experience. I am an academic who is actively involved in higher education research. Issues, trends and challenges in the field of (South) African higher education that bothers on processes, engagements and its future within the global perspective interest me. I have researched on issues of internationalisation of higher education (see my book on http://www.amazon.com/Internationalisation-Higher-Education-South-Africa/dp/363929422X); explored the challenges and opportunities for new faculty in South African Higher Education; considered tertiary economics education (its teaching and implications on learning) as a field in higher education; and researched how advanced university students perceive the concept of corporate social responsibility. Across the many issues I have examined in higher education, I have developed a conceptual framework that integrates four inter-related contexts in higher education (disciplinary, pedagogical, social and official) as a lenses drawing on ideas from Basil Bernstein. From a methodological perspective, I have operationalized phenomenography as a research methodology considering its richness to explore the kind of research questions I have asked so far.