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12 September 2018
What can or should higher education contribute to transformation and development by advancing the human well-being and agency of all students? How would our universities need to change to truly foster human development? 

These are the common questions cutting across the papers which will be presented at the International colloquium on ‘Researching well-being, agency and structural inequalities: comparative perspectives’. The University of the Free State’s (UFS) South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair in higher education and human development research programme led by Prof Melanie Walker will host the colloquium on 19 September 2018 at the Bloemfontein Campus.

The colloquium presents critical scholarship on development and also serves to celebrate the second five-year term of the SARChI Chair. The event has been structured to enable opportunities for early career researchers from the UFS to present their work alongside that of experienced scholars from the UK, US and South Africa, working on human development, development ethics and on education.
 
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2018
Time: 09:00-17:00
Venue: Chancellor’s Room, Centenary Complex, Bloemfontein Campus

Enquiries: Contact Elize Rall at rall.elize@gmail.com or on 076 792 9999 and CC Lucretia Smith at SmithL3@ufs.ac.za or dial 051 401 9856.

Click on the attached documents for the invitation and programme

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Social Work students scoop the Service Learning grand prize
2016-03-09

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From the left: Natalie van Wyk, Jané Erasmus, Cornél Odendaal, Anré la Grange, and Werner Botes on winning the Service Learning Prize in the Faculty of Humanities.

In 2015 five third-year Social Work students started a project, “Be Buddies, Not Bullies” at Joe Solomon Primary School in Heidedal. The project was specifically aimed at Grade 7 learners, to help them to improve their interpersonal skills and discipline at school and at home, as bullying behaviour among them was on the rise. A mentorship programme was also developed for this target group.

The students designed a manual addressing issues such as: self-esteem, relationships, peer pressure, conflict handling, emotional intelligence, effective communication, acceptance of diversity, responsibility and support.The students identified leaders in Grade 7 and then trained them to be mentors for their peers. The learners will form groups and meet on a weekly basis under the guidance of these trained leaders,to deal with issuessuch as those covered by the manual.

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