Dr Nonhlanhla Maseko

Lecturer Inclusive Education and Life Orientation
Name: Nonhlanhl Maseko
Location: B Ring 417B
DEP Staff, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education  Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: +27 11 559 3915

Email: nonhlanhlam@uj.ac.za

About Dr Nonhlanhla Maseko

Highest qualification:

Degree: PhD in Inclusive Education

Institution: University of Johannesburg

Title: Caregivers’ experiences and support of children with intellectual disabilities living in foster care in Gauteng Province.

Nonhlanhla Desiree Maseko is a Lecturer in the Department of Educational Psychology at University of Johannesburg. Her responsibilities include teacher training, postgraduate supervision and research, community engagement

RESEARCH INTEREST:

• Foster Care/Caregiver support.
• Parental involvement and support. /Family, school and community partnership towards inclusion of learners with disabilities.
• Learner support and Children with intellectual disabilities.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

• Inclusive Education
• Life Orientation
• Remedial Education

TEACHING INFORMATION:

• B.Ed. (MOFPNY4) (METH: ADD Neurodevelopmental Disorder in Learning)
• B.Ed. (MOFPNA&B3) (METH: ADD Neurodevelopmental Disorder in Learning)
• PG Dip (ECIS00Y) Community Involvement in inclusive school

Selected topics in Masters and Doctoral studies supervised:

PhD

Parental experiences in supporting children with Intellectual Disabilities in a full-service school setting (completed in 2021).

CURRENT PhD:

• Teachers’ perception regarding retirement in Gauteng Schools
• Family-school partnership in the transitioning of learners with learning disabilities into a special class.
• Family, school and community partnership in supporting learners with learning disabilities
• Parental role in enhancing academic performance of learners with autism spectrum disorder in Manzini mainstream primary school
• Family-school partnerships in behavioral modification of learners in high school settings.

M.Ed. in Inclusive Education

• The challenges experienced by teachers in identifying learners who experience barriers to learning in a rural full-service school in Kwazulu- Natal (completed in 2012.)
• Supporting teachers to implement inclusive education in Kwaluseni district, Swaziland (completed in 2012).
• Strategies to address auditory perceptual deficits in a school of skills in the northern suburbs of Cape Town (completed in 2016).
• Providing support for grade 10 learners to improve academic performance at Kwa-Mhlanga circuit in Mpumalanga Province: A case study (completed in 2017).
• Experiences of learners with special educational needs: Transition from a formal class to a special class (completed in 2020).
• Experiences of the school based support team in schools for learners with learning disabilities: A case study at Vhembe district (completed in 2020).
• Teachers ‘challenges in supporting learners with socio-economic barriers to learning (completed in 2021).

M.Ed. in Educational Psychology

• Teachers’ Professional development needs in supporting learners with specific learning disorder (completed in 2021).
• Teacher’s experiences in supporting learners with selective mutism in an inclusive classroom (completed in 2021).

Current M.Ed. in Inclusive Education

• Teachers challenges in supporting learners with barriers to learning in the intermediate phase.
• Parental involvement in transitioning of learners with intellectual disabilities from mainstream to special school.
• Caregivers’ experiences in communicating with children with severe to profound intellectual disabilities in selected special care centres in Gauteng.
• Parental role in supporting learners with barriers to learning in a secondary school.
• Parental involvement in the education and development of learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Home school partnership in supporting learners in a public primary school in Soweto.
• Parental involvement in supporting grade 4 learners experiencing English language as a barrier to learning.
• Home, school partnership in supporting academic performance of intermediate phase learners in North West province.
• Home, school partnership in the education of learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

BOOK CHAPTERS CONTRIBUTED

1. Handbook for Grade R Teaching

Edited by R Davin

Pearson – ISBN 978-1-77578-329-9

2. Including the Excluded: Teaching the Vulnerable in the 21^st Century

Edited by MD Magano and U Ramnarain

Pearson – ISBN 978-1-7759-5299-2

3. Educational Psychology and Teaching Children About Health,1^st Edition

Editors: Estelle Weinstein,Efrem Rosen, Mncedisi Maphalala, Ramodungoane Tabane

Cengage Learning – ISBN 978-1-4737-0918-8

4. Realigning Teacher Training in the 21^st Century.

Editors: MD Magano; SJ Mohapi; D Robinson

Cengage Learning

5. Intergrating Multicultural Education into the Curriculum for Decolonisation Benefits and Challenges

Editors: Lloyd Daniel Nkoli Tlale; Thabo Makhalemele

Nova science publishers New York

6. The Pedagogy Employed for Correctional Education An Ubuntu and Wellness Perspective and The Pedagogy of Intervening Using Inclusivity in a Special School for Learners with Intellectual Disabilities. (A research-based manuscript from correctional schools and special schools)

Editors: Magano MD, Dreyer Lorna M

Reach publishers: ISBN 978-0-620-86973-