Chair Integrated Studies of Learning Language, Mathematics and Science in the Primary School

About the Chair

The Chair is situated on the Soweto campus of the University.  The Chair continued to work from the Centre For Education Practice Research, which was founded in 2007 with the brief to research education on the ground. Existing projects were incorporated into the work of the SARChI Chair in 2016.

The Chair is home to a number of research projects on child development and learning as well as teacher education for the primary school. The main programme of research is  early reading and primary school mathematics and science learning. The recent additions to the  research portfolio is robotics and coding for foundation phase teachers and learners  and neuroimaging with a functional near-infrared spectroscopy device.

The UJ Cognition Lab is also situated in the Chair (GNA 104, Soweto campus)

In addition to the research projects, the editorial office of the South African Journal of Childhood Education is located within the Chair. www.sajce.co.za