Kenneth Mlungisi Ngcoza

Kenneth Mlungisi Ngcoza is a Professor in Science Education at Rhodes University. He supervises MEd and PhD students and has graduated more than 90 Masters and PhD students. He is chairperson of GADRA Education and a member of the Vice Chancellor’s Initiative to Revitalise Public Education in Makhanda. In 2019, he was awarded a joint VC’s Distinguished Community Engagement Award and in 2010, he was awarded the Citizen of the Year Award by the Grahamstown Rotary Club. In 2023, he received an award for exceptional services to SAARMSTE

His research interests include science curriculum, transformative continuing professional development, indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Citizenship Education, and has published/co-published a number of journal articles and book chapters in his areas of interest. In 2022, he received a C2 rating from NRF. Ken is the past President of SAARMSTE and member of the African Association for the Study of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AASIKS). He is also involved in two international research projects: 1) Japan, South Africa, Zambia and Namibia, on Lesson Studies and Indigenous Knowledge Systems; 2) Germany and South Africa, on Citizenship Education. He is on the Editorial Board of the UK based Research in Science and Technological Education Journal, and reviewer of a number of accredited journals.

Rhodes University Profile page

Recent publications
Asheela, E., Ngcoza, K. M., & Sewry, J. (2021). The use of easily accessible resources during hands-on practical activities in rural under-resourced Namibian schools. In U. Ramnarain (Ed.), School science practical work in Africa (pp. 14-31). Routledge.
    
Shinana, E., Ngcoza, K. M., & Mavhunga, E. (2021a). Development of Teachers’ PCK for a Scientific Inquiry-based Teaching Approach in Namibia’s Rural Schools. African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 25(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/18117295.2021.1913375
    
Seehawer, M., Ngcoza, K. M., Nhase, Z., & Nuntsu, S. N. (2021). Approaching Ubuntu in Education through Bottom-Up Decolonisation. PIVOT 2021 Conference, Dismantling/Reassembling Tools for Alternative Futures (pp. 518-527). OCAD University, Canada, July 22-23rd, 2021. Doi:10.21606/pluraversal 2021.0050.
    
Ngcoza, K. M. (2021). Exploring how a game analogy enables and/or constrains sense-making of chemical equilibrium concepts. Proceedings of ICERI2021 Conference (pp. 9110-9117). Seville, Spain, 8-9th November 2021. ISBN: 978-84-09-34549-6