Matilda Sophia de Beer

Matilda Sophia de Beer holds the rank of senior lecturer at the University of the Free State. Her MA was on the Television Drama and her Ph D included the political framework of the apartheid era of South Africa and its influence on indigenous systems. During her 20 year academic career she lectured at the historically black university, Vista University, and was invited to teach in Prague and Poland. She engaged in several study tours to the Far East, Africa, Europe and the United States regarding the subjects Community Service-learning, HIV/Aids, Languages and also (cultural) Tourism. During these visits she presented various papers on Higher Education development and Africanization/transformation regarding Higher Education Institutions in South Africa. She engaged in international research projects with Ghana, Nigeria and Southern University in Louisiana. Several articles, book contributions, and book reviews within various subject fields such as Community-service learning, HIV/Aids, Indigenous language systems and Tourism were published by de Beer.

She has been formally trained specifically in the field of language and education at the University of the Free State, and in leadership skills regarding teaching in the USA and the Netherlands. She has attended various workshops locally and internationally (in various countries in Africa, England, the USA and Namibia) in areas of HIV/Aids, language teaching, leadership in the teaching environment, project management, assessor training and in acting as a mentor in the teaching environment.