Dr TKB Mort

Qualifications

• PhD Teacher Education, Centre for International Teacher Education, Cape Peninsular University of Technology, 2021
• M.Ed in Art Culture and Education, University of Cambridge, 2010
• PGCE in English and Art Education, University of Cape Town, 1993
• English III, UNISA, 1992
• Bachelor of Art in Fine Art Honours in Fine Art, and English, University of KwaZulu Natal, 1991 

Currently teaching

Arts and Culture

Fields of academic interests

• Contemporary Art practice (especially underrepresented African artists and enlarging the canon of Art History research to include their work)
• Public Health in Africa (especially researching artists working on these issues in Africa)
• English Language education in Africa (and the PrimTEd project)
• Narrative inquiry and its uses in Teacher Education

Field of Specialisation

• African Contemporary Art, and teaching from it
• English first additional language teaching in Africa
• Teacher education: teacher motivation, teacher narratives, teacher learning experiences
• Family learning in visual arts

Books

Book chapters:

Sayed, Y., Kwenda, C., & Mort, T. (2019). Who Becomes a Teacher and Why. In  Y Sayed &  N. Carrim’s Learning to Teach in post-apartheid South Africa: Student Teachers encounters with initial teacher education, SUN.

Mort, T. (2022): Hiding behind simple things: the Iconography of the Everyday in

Randolph Hartzenberg’s work, in M. Pisarro (Ed)’s On the Map: perspectives on art from africa south (vol 1) published by Africa South Arts Initiative) (forthcoming)

Journal articles

Mort T, & Sayed, Y. (2021) Enabling Conditions for Student Teachers Learning to teach on Teaching

Practicum. Journal of Education Studies 21(1).

Sayed, Y, Singh, M. & Mort, T (2021).   Covid 19: Exacerbating existing educational inequities. Social

and Health Sciences' Special Issue on COVID-19.  

Mort, T. (2020). Getting out of Forgotten: the Disruptive Vision of Owanto, Agenda  https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2020.1833512

Mort, T. & Glietenberg, S. (2021) Improving South African student teacher English language skills : an

argument for the assessment strategies of the PrimTEd language teaching project, submitted to Journal of Education (SAERA Special edition), awaiting response

Mort, T. (2013). Finding the writer where the stories begin. An interview with Linda Rode.   Litnet.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

• Project Manager, Lalela, 2018-2021
• PrimTEd Language Coordinator (2021-  )
• Foundation Phase Lecturer, Cornerstone (2021) (English First Additional Language, Ethics, Life Skills)
• Highly Commended: Folio Books Poetry Competition, Cape Town, 2010
• Highly Commended : Elizabeth Fletcher Poetry Competition, University of Cambridge, 2010
• Beyond this (and these), Solo Painting Exhibition, Casa Labia, 2013.

Projects

• PrimTEd Project (UJ)
• Phalane Art Project (UNISA)