Dr Cornelia Shimwooshili Shaimemanya

• PhD (Science Education), Florida Tech, Florida, USA, 2006.

• MEd. (Curriculum and Instruction), Howard University, Washington DC, USA, 1993.

• BAEd (Accounting and Geography), National University of Lesotho, Roma, Lesotho, 1990.

• Certificate Distance Education, University of South Africa, 1999

Director, Postgraduate Studies

Main Campus, Mandume Ndemufayo Avenue, Windhoek
Block X, Room X038

+264 61 206 3523
+264 61 206 3980

cshaimem@unam.na

Dr Shimwooshili Shaimemanya is a Fulbright Scholar with over twenty years of experience in the education sector. In 2011 Dr Shimwooshili Shaimemanya was Seconded to UNESCO Windhoek Cluster Office and served as the Education Programme Specialist. She is currently the Director of Postgraduate Studies responsible among others for coordinating and running of the University of Namibia and externally supported postgraduate training programmes to ensure quality control and the maintenance of high academic standards; coordinating the processing of postgraduate student research proposals, theses /dissertations; coordinating and administering viva voce examinations; providing academic support services to postgraduate students; empowering through short courses, seminars/workshops academic staff to teach at postgraduate level and conduct effective student supervision.

Dr Shimwooshili Shaimemanya has been involved in the teaching and supervision of postgraduate students for the past fifteen years and has served as an external examiner at postgraduate level in the areas of Educational Research, Didactics of commercial subjects (Accounting, Business Studies and Economics), Population Education and Environmental Education. She is currently working on a change project of Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability in the University of Namibia Programs.

Dr Shimwooshili Shaimemanya is the Editor of Namibia Educational Research Journal and Understanding Policy Domains, Salient forces, Constituencies, Organizational Factors and Challenges by Tapera O. Chirawu.

• Science Education
• Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
• Environmental Education
• E-Learning
• Environmental and Economic Accounting

• Shimwooshili Shaimemanya, C. N. (2006) Teaching Desertification: An Investigation of Teacher and Classroom Attributes, Instructional Strategies, Locus of Control, Attitudes, and Self-Efficacy of Namibian Junior Secondary School Teachers (Doctoral Dissertation, Florida Institute of Technology, 2006, Publication Number 3221640). Available at en.scientificcommons.org/cornelia_ndahambelela_ shimwooshili_shaimemanya.
• Shimwooshili Shaimemanya, C. N. (2007). Teaching Desertification: Investigating Factors influencing Namibian Secondary School Teachers’ Affective Domain, 2007. WEEC 2007 Conference Proceedings Available at www.weec2007.com
• Shimwooshili Shaimemanya, C.N. (2008). Teaching Desertification: What effects do Teacher Attributes, Classroom Attributes and Instructional Strategies have on Namibian Secondary School Teachers’ Affective Domain? Namibia Educational Research Association Journal 2007/2008.
• Shimwooshili Shaimemanya, C. N. (2011). Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability at the University of Namibia, NERA Journal , 11(1), p.17-29
• Chinsembu, K.C., Shimwooshili-Shaimemanya, C., Kasanda, C.D. and Zealand, D. (2011). Indigenous knowledge of HIV/AIDS among High School students in Namibia. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2011, 7: 17 doi: 10.1186/1746-4269-7-17. Available at: http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/pdf/1746-4269-7-17.pdf
• Kazhila C. Chinsembu1*, Choshi D. Kasanda2 and Cornelia N. Shimwooshili-Shaimemanya2, Prevalence, distribution and behavioral determinants of coital activity among High School students in Namibia: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology Vol. 3(7), pp. 308-316, July 2011 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/jphe. ISSN 2141-2316 ©2011 Academic Journals
• Kazhila C. Chinsembu1, Choshi D. Kasanda, and Cornelia N. Shimwooshili-Shaimemanya (2011). Impacts of HIV/AIDS on secondary school science teachers and learners in Namibia. Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology Vol. 3(10), October 2011. Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/jphe. ISSN 2141-2316 ©2011 Academic Journals

• Trainer of Secondary School Teachers on Entrepreneurship (2008), Northern Namibia
• Organized and facilitated at the National Stakeholders Consultative Seminar on the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) in Namibia held at Safari Hotel, Windhoek 25-26 November 2008.
• Working on a Change Project on Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability in University of Namibia Programmes.
• Participant in the SIDA/UNEP International Training Program in Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education/MESA (Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability into African Universities, Sweden and Kenya, 2009.
• Organized and facilitated the United Nations Environment Program and University of Namibia Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability (UNEP/UNAM MESA Workshop) at UNAM, 2010
• Facilitated the UNESCO Seminar on Reorienting Science Education towards Sustainability through Teacher Education in the SADC Region, Habitat Research and Development Centre (HRDC), Windhoek, Namibia, 2010.
• Organized and facilitated the UNESCO ESD Multiple Perspective Learning and Teaching Tool on Water Pilot Testing Workshop, 2011, HRDC
• Facilitated at the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) Coordinators’ Workshop on Education for Sustainable Development , 2011.
• Provided input for the University of Namibia Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) application to the United Nations.
• Completed the Namibia Vocational Education and Training (VET) Monitoring Report.
• Organized and facilitated the Capacity Building and Human Resources Development in Teacher Education in Namibia Workshop, 2011.
• Served on the Secretariat of the Namibia National Conference on Education, 2011.
• Organized and facilitated the Better Education for Africa’s Rise (BEAR) TVET Workshop, 2012.
• Organized and facilitated the first ever UNAM Postgraduate Students’ Orientation Workshop, 2012.
• Facilitated and Presented a paper on Establishing Namibia Journal of CPD for Educators at 1st National Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Forum 10-13 April 2012 Safari Hotel, Windhoek.
• Trained Members of the Cultural Sites Management Committees at the ILO/ UNESCO MDG-F and UNAM Governance Training for the Cultural Sites Management Committees Workshop, 17-19 April 2012.