Motlalepule Ruth Mampane
Prof, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education · University of Preotira
Research Interests
Family resilience Academic resilience Adolescent risk and adversity Inclusive education
Biography
Mampane is an Associate Professor, Head of Educational Psychology Department, University of Pretoria and a registered Educational Psychologist with the Health Profession Council of South Africa. Her research focus is on academic resilience, family and adolescent resilience. Her scholarly contributions are centred on the influences of context and developmental processes on academic resilience, adolescent and family resilience against multiple adversities that South African families are exposed to. Her research is unique in highlighting family resilience in resource-constrained context of South African townships and cultural influences to family resilience. On international scholarship, she received postdoctoral award to the University of Michigan (Ann-Abor), African Presidential Scholar (UMAPS) for the period August 2010 – February 2011. Mampane also received National Research Foundation of South Africa funding (2013-14/ 2018-2021) focusing on the Determinants of family resilience.
Education
PhD Educational Psychology M.Ed. Educational Psychology (Registered Educational Psychologist with HPCSA)
Recent Scopus Publications
- The Contribution of Educational Psychology to South African Preservice Teacher Training and Learner Support
- Perceptions of Academic Resilience by Senior Phase Learners and Teachers from Low Socioeconomic Schools
- Students with Disabilities’ Access to Distance Education: A Case for Transformational Leadership within the Ambit of Ubuntu
- COLLECTIVE DISTRESS CALLS FOR COLLECTIVE WELLBEING MEASURES: The case of social support as a resilience-enabling Afrocentric Indigenous pathway
- Youth resilience to drought: Learning from a group of south african adolescents
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9853-2077
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7vQElw8AAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=37111078700