Funda UJabule School

In 2010 the University of Johannesburg founded the a public school in Soweto, in partnership with the Gauteng Department of Education. The objectives of establishing this school, the Funda UJabule School, were multiple: providing excellent primary school education to children close to the UJ Soweto campus; developing a practice learning site for the education of teachers of young children; enabling longitudinal child development studies and research on children’s performance in the school curriculum; and serving as a resource centre/development hub for schools close to the Soweto campus.
The name of the school: Funda UJabule captures the spirit of education at the school: learn and be joyful. But it also encapsulates the UJ association in the name. The School opened its doors in January 2010 with two Grade R-classes, two foundation phase, teachers and an acting school principal. It is now a full-fledged primary school.

For more information about the Funda UJabule school, please watch the following videos and check out this article that was published in the Mail and Guardian on 15 June 2016:

Good teacher graduates emerge when their studies combine theory and reality (by Prof Sarah Gravett and Prof Nadine Petersen)

A teaching school and its community at UJ