Pholoho Morojele, congratulations!

Pholoho Morojele is the Discipline Head of Social Justice Education and a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal in Duban, South Africa. He was born, grew up and was schooled in rural Lesotho. His research interests are in gender and social justice in education. Pholoho was a participant in ESE:O’s second pilot online academic writing course (2008-2009), as part of the Peer Review Project funded by the Ford Foundation. During the course, Pholoho produced the article “What does it mean to be a girl? Implications of girls’ and boys’ experiences of gender roles in rural Lesotho primary schools”, that was published in the journal Education as Change (15 (1) 2011).

Pholoho provides an outstanding example of how ESE:O’s online courses can contribute to facilitate inclusion into academic communities at multiple levels and to advance academic careers beyond the specific context of the online instruction. Since completing the course in late 2009, Pholoho has published three other articles (one in the international journal Gender and Education and two in the South African journal Agenda), has had four other articles accepted for publication, has had a revised version of his PhD thesis (Gender and Education in Lesotho rural communities) published and has peer-reviewed articles for journals including: Journal of Education, South Journal of Higher Education, Africa Education Review, Journal of Educational Studies, and Perspectives in Education.

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