Department Adult Community and Continuing Education

Dr VG Luxomo

College of Education
School of Educational Studies
Department: Adult Basic Education
Senior Lecturer
Tel: 012 481 1272

Qualifications

  • PhD
  • MEd

Currently teaching

  • Basic Engineering 

Fields of academic interests

  • Youth Studies and Engineering Education

Field of Specialisation

  • Access to modern structures of opportunity

Books

Book chapters:

  • Luxomo, G. and Motala, S. (2012). The Return Home: Parental Involvement in Children’s Education in Finding Place and Keeping Pace: Exploring Meaningful and Equitable Learning in South African Schools. HSRC Press.
  • Kgobe, P., Luxomo, G., and Ngwenya, E. (2012). On the way in: A methodology for studying access in Finding Place and Keeping Pace: Exploring Meaningful and Equitable Learning in South African Schools. HSRC Press.

Journal articles

  • Luxomo, V. & Ngcwangu, S. (Forthcoming). Youth Access to Vocational Training in the South African Construction Industry (Article submitted to the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education Journal).
  • Luxomo, V.G. (2022). Lived Experience: A study of young people not participating in education, training, and employment (NEET).
  • Motala, S. and Luxomo, V. (2014). Parental involvement and access to learning: a perspective from Gauteng and Eastern Cape, South Africa, South African Review of Education, Vol 20(2), pp 80-96.
  • Luxomo, G. and Motala, S. (2012). The Return Home: Parental Involvement in Children’s Education in Finding Place and Keeping Pace: Exploring Meaningful and Equitable Learning in South African Schools. HSRC Press.
  • Kgobe, P., Luxomo, G., and Ngwenya, E. (2012). On the way in: A methodology for studying access in Finding Place and Keeping Pace: Exploring Meaningful and Equitable Learning in South African Schools. HSRC Press.

Paper presentations

  • Dieltiens, V. and Luxomo, G. (2008).  Finding place and keeping pace: Access to education in Gauteng.  Paper presented to the Gauteng Department of Education Research Conference, 6-7 March 2008, Parktonian Hotel, Johannesburg.
  • Luxomo, G (2008) "Preschool Attendance and Grade Repetition: Lessons from the Birth-to-Twenty Cohort". Pathways to Access paper prepared for Ukfiet conference, UK.
  • Luxomo, VG (2009). Policy ideals, contextual upheavals, and cultural disjuncture: Parental activism (voice or choice) and involvement to the improvement of the children’s education to bring about meaningful access. Working progress paper presented on Thursday 23rd of April 2009 at the University of the Cape Coast in Ghana.
  • Luxomo, VG (2009). Missing in Education and Training yet not found in Employment (NEET): a story of young people in the 21st century. A paper presented for the College of Education at UNISA, 25 June 2021
  • Luxomo, VG and Ngcwangu, S. (2021). Youth Access to Vocational Training in the South African Construction Industry 

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • Sasol Inzalo Fellowship, HSS Alumni

Projects

  • Youth and Society and Green Circular Economy 

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