An EconoTimes perspective

Wendy Smidt

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Institute for Teacher Education Society (GITES), Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Institute for Teacher Education Society (GITES), Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology POST-GRADUATE STUDIES: Current position: Postdoctoral fellow at the Global Institute for Teacher Education Society (GITES), in the Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Mowbray Campus. 2023: Cape Peninsula University of Technology, D.Ed. Research topic: The use of film literacy in the development of critical self-awareness and transpersonal growth amongst a group of post-school youth. 2015: Stellenbosch University, MAVA (Ed). Research topic: Critical citizenship education: investigating new understandings in a teaching and learning environment at Montagu High School, Western Cape. PUBLICATIONS: Smidt, W. 2015. Critical citizenship education: investigating new understandings in a teaching and learning environment at Montagu High School, Western Cape. Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Education. Dept. of Visual Arts. 2015, 98 pages. doi: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97910 Smidt W. 2020. Engaging the transformative potential of shortfilm-making toward critical awareness and transpersonal growth among post-school youth. Integral Transpers J. 2020;14(14):26–53. https://doi.org/10.32031/ITIBTE_ ITJ_14-SW2 Smidt, W. 2023. The use of film literacy in the development of critical self-awareness and transpersonal growth amongst a group of post-school youth. Thesis (D.Ed.)--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2023, 328 pages. doi: https://etd.cput.ac.za/handle/20.500.11838/3879 Smidt, W., & Waghid, Z. 2024. Nurturing youth film literacy: Post-qualitative arts-based inquiry into critical self-awareness. The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 20(1), 13 pages. doi: https://doi.org/10.4102/td.v20i1.1382 RESEARCH INTERESTS Shortfilm-making as an experiential pedagogical activity, critical engagement and social impact, arts-based research methods, personal and transpersonal growth within the context of young adult education.