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Dr Thea Schoeman

Head of Department and Lec​turer
Name: Thea Schoeman
Location: D3 Lab 319 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Geography Environmental Management Energy Studies Staff  Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: +27 (0) 11 559 3226

Email: theas@uj.ac.za

About Dr Thea Schoeman

Research Interests

Waste Management:

  • Recycling behaviour
  • Waste pickers

 

Teacher training:

  • Mapwork skills
  • GIS

 

Lecturing Duties:

  • GIS
  • Environmental Management
  • Geomorphology
  • Cartography

 

Conferences:

 

  • Schoeman, D.C.  2018:  Training primary school teachers in map work:  Lessons learned.  Paper presented at the IAFOR International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA:  4-6 January 2018.
  • Schoeman, D.C. & I.P. Morosele.  2018:  Household recycling behaviour in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, South Africa.  Paper presented at the IAFOR International Conference on Sustainability, Energy and the Environment, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA:  4-6 January 2018.
  • Schoeman, D.C. 2017:  Formalising waste pickers in the City of Johannesburg, South Africa.  Paper presented at AAG 2017 Annual Meeting, Boston, USA:  5-9 April 2017.
  • Schoeman, D.C. & J. Schmidt.  2016:  Household recycling behavior in the City of Johannesburg.  Paper presented at SSAG Centennial Conference, 25-28 September 2016, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
  • Schoeman, D.C. & J. Galela.  2015:  Waste management and recycling:  issues faced by the City of Johannesburg.  Paper presented at IGU 2015 Regional Conference, Moscow, Russia:  17-21 Augustus 2015.
  • Schoeman, D.C. & T. Mosime.  2014:  Profiling waste pickers and determining their view on formalizing their roles.  Paper presented at SSAG 2014 Conference, East London, South Africa.

 

Publications:

  • Schoeman, T.  2018: The spatial influence of apartheid on the South African city.  Accepted for publication in The Geography Teacher.
  • Schoeman, T. & S. Sanders.  2017:  An investigation into educators’ training in Geographic Information System.  International Journal of Learning and Teaching, 5(1).
  • Schoeman, T. & J. Schmidt.  2016:  An explorative study on household recycling behaviour in the City of Johannesburg.  Proceedings of the Centenary Conference of the Society of South African Geographers:  25-28 September 2016, Stellenbosch.  Conducted by the Society of South African Geographers.  Stellenbosch:  SunMedia.
  •  Schoeman, T.  2002:  Sociopolitical aspects of establishing ecotourism in the QwaQwa National Park, South Africa.  Current Issues in Tourism, 5(3):287-308.  doi:10.1080/13683500208667925.