Rakel-Kavena Shalyefu

Certificate in Public Administration (Polytechnic), Certificate in HIV/AIDS Counselling (UNAM), Certificate for Distance Education Practitioners (UNISA) Bachelor of Pedagogics (UFH) Bachelor of Education (UNISA), Masters of Education (UMASS), Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Design (PSU).

• Deputy Director: TLIU;
• Project Manager: ZAMANAWE HIV/AIDS Peer Education;
• Lecturer: Department of Lifelong Learning and Community Education

Tel. +264. 61. 206 3338
Fax. +264. 61. 206 3320

rkshalyefu@unam.na

Dr. Shalyefu is a lecturer in the Department of Adult and Nonformal Education at the University of Namibia. She holds a Certificate in Public Administration from the Polytechnic of Namibia, a Certificate in HIV/AIDS Counseling from the University of Namibia, two Certificates in Distance Education one from the Pennsylvania State University and another one from the University of South Africa, a Bachelor of Pedagogics degree from the University of Fort Hare (SA), a Bachelor of Education (postgraduate) degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA),  a Masters Degree in Adult and Nonformal  Education, and Educational Administration from the University of Massachusetts  (USA),  and a Ph.D. (Instructional Systems Design) from the Pennsylvania State University (USA). She has been teaching Research Methods and Needs Assessment Survey at undergraduate level and supervising research thesis and dissertations at postgraduate level. She is especially interested in designing programmmes for both print-based and electronic environments and also in assessing needs, planning, developing, and evaluating programmmes. In addition, she is part of the quality assurance group promoters at the University of Namibia. Her current research interest is focusing on the Namibian indigenous knowledge and how it can be revived with particular focus on adolescent initiation, youth life skills and marriage preparation.

Post resume/vita document

CFI3731: Needs Assessment Survey, CFI3701: Introduction to Educational Research, EASP 3512: Sociology and Psychology of Adult Learning, AET3711: Entrepreneurship, EAF6170: Twentieth Century Thinkers in Adult Education, EAD6110: Foundations of Adult Education.

• Interest:  Indigenous knowledge (initiation and marriage preparation) and Education for Sustainable Development
• Expertise:  Lifelong Learning for Adults, Program Design and Evaluation

1. Shalyefu, R.K. (1999). Improving the quality of teaching and learning at institution of higher learning in Der Vyver, F. (ed) Head-start into the 21st Century: Hindsight and Foresight into Education. Selected Papers for the SASE Conference Proceedings held at the Sparkling Waters Hotel in October 1999 hosted by the University of North West.

2. Shalyefu, R.K. (2003). Exploring Web-based Education in South Africa. A refereed article in Academic Exchange Quarterly, Spring 2003. A blind reviewed Refereed Journal available at http://www.rapiduntellect.com/AEQweb/

3. Shalyefu, R.K. and Nakakuwa, H.A. (2005). Development and Democracy in Namibia: The Contribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). A chapter in Alison A. Carr-Chellman (ed.). Global Perspectives on E-Learning: Rhetoric and Reality, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications

4. Shalyefu, R.K. (2005). ODL Pre-the Internet and the World Wide Web.
in the Conference Proceedings of Towards Education for All: the Critical Role of Open and Distance Learning in National Development, 30 August -1st September 2005, Windhoek, Namibia

• Member of the Faculty of the Research and Publication Committee,
• Reviewing editor for the UNISWA Research Journal of Agriculture, Science and Technology.
• Facilitator of the Innovative Teaching Strategies II at the TLIU of UNAM
• Trained the Namibia Red Cross Society Managers on Leadership and Change Management .
• Managed Peer Educators’ HIV/AIDS Intervention and Career Fairs at UNAM Campuses, High Schools, Churches, etc.
• Seminars on Life Skills on How to Choose a Life Partner, Courtship and Marriage Preparation with the ELCIN Church Youth League.
• Member of the Namibian Educational Research Association
• Member of the Distance Education Association in Southern Africa (DEASA)
• Presentation at the ELCIN Women League on Current Issues and Problems of Women in Namibia