Mpumi Mohohlwane
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Education researcher
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[LATEST ON ECD] An announcement from Dep. Basic Education regarding the Early Childhood Development subsidies.
New Article! Fondazione Aurora has established the WikiAfrica Education Programme for university students in Africa under its Higher Education Initiative. This project enables university students in Africa to create content about the continent on Wikipedia in African languages.
Intervening in Home Language benefits both Home Language & English but intervening in English hurts Home Language. Read our working paper Center for Global Development & a blog with Stephen Taylor Jacobus Cilliers Brahm Fleisch cgdev.org/blog/what-effe…
📣Youth Impact is hiring for a bunch of exciting roles, including a program manager for a partnership with the Department of Basic Education in South Africa to pilot, test, and scaled evidence-based education programs. Please circulate and apply! youth-impact.org/join-us-1
external review of #ulwazilwethu project: external review of 1430 early grade readers in all 9 African. Led by Dr Joyce West University of Pretoria Breaking new ground: emerging scholarship on ‘science of reading in African languages’ Zenex Foundation Brahm Fleisch Mary Metcalfe Nic Spaull
#ulwazilwethu Readers developed by Molteno, Room to Read, Nelson Mandela Institute; SAIDE University of Pretoria Review recommendations important for future development of African language readers Nal'ibali Book Dash Funda Wande National Education Collaboration Trust Dep. Basic Education
#ulwazilwethu 1430 readers in all 9 African languages with teacher materials: a vital contribution to implementing Dep. Basic Education turnaround reading strategy - especially focus on mother tongue education Zenex Foundation Stephen Taylor Mary Metcalfe
Mpumi Moholwane Mpumi Mohohlwane presenting on language transfer using EGRS 1, targeting home language (HL) and EGRS 2, targeting English. Take home? When targeting home language it improved BOTH HL and English. When targeting English it ONLY improved English, and possibly hurt HL
Baba kaNkosana Nic Spaull Mpumi Mohohlwane This write-up by Mpumi Mohohlwane and Jacobus Cilliers might help: cgdev.org/blog/what-effe…
📣 For those with a PhD or on the job market, just a few days left (Nov 20) to apply to an exciting role as postdoc / Research Scientist with us at the What Works Hub for Global Education Blavatnik School of Government University of Oxford! cc FCDO Research Gates Foundation bsg.ox.ac.uk/workforus
Reading Skills Transfer Best from Home Language to a Second Language: Policy Lessons from Two Field Experiments in South Africa Our paper with JREE is out Stephen Taylor Brahm_Fleisch Jacobus Cilliers You can access it here : tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Learning effects don't always fade out! New results 4 years after the end of a program from Jonathan Stern Matthew Jukes Jacobus Cilliers Brahm_Fleisch Stephen Taylor and Mpumi Mohohlwane cgdev.org/blog/long-term…