Fumane Portia Khanare

Fumane Portia Khanare is a Senior Lecturer and BEd Honours Coordinator in the Department of Educational Psychology at the Faculty of Education, University of the Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research focuses on rural education in particular, voices of care and support for learners with neurodiversity needs in rural populations, orphans and vulnerable learners due to HIV and AIDS, and the holistic wellbeing of children and youth in Black communities. She combines asset-based approaches and arts-based research methods as pathways to advance young people’s voices and agency for systematically enabling learning environments. She has been a MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative Fellow at Columbia University, the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). In 2017 she was honoured to be one of the Child and Youth Institute Laureates under the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).

Publications

Successful Pathways for the Well-Being of Black Students
Successful Pathways for the Well-Being of Black Students
Fumane Portia Khanare, Brenda L.H. Marina. © 2023. 281 pages.
A grassroots understanding of well-being can be an effective approach to meeting the needs of children in low-resource settings. Due to this, evidence on how to sustain such...
An Intersectionality Perspective on Rural Adolescent Access to Digital Technology in South Africa
An Intersectionality Perspective on Rural Adolescent Access to Digital Technology in South Africa
Amy Sarah Padayachee, Fumane Portia Khanare, Delin C. Louw, Ntombizandile Gcelu. © 2022. 16 pages.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore compounding disparities in the South African education system. The world at large has suddenly been faced with the challenge...
Engaging At-Risk Students in Challenging Circumstances in South Africa: Partnerships That Matter
Engaging At-Risk Students in Challenging Circumstances in South Africa: Partnerships That Matter
Amy Sarah Padayachee, Fumane Portia Khanare, Ntombizandile Gcelu. © 2022. 18 pages.
South Africa, nearly three decades since the dispensation of democracy, boasts of its cultural diversity and the transformation of its educational system. Democratic education at...
Xenophobia in Higher Education in South Africa
Xenophobia in Higher Education in South Africa
Tshimangadzo Selina Mudau, Fumane Portia Khanare. © 2021. 15 pages.
Naturally, universities are international institutions. In the event of reports of xenophobic attacks across the South African communities, the universities were not spared....
Developing Inclusive, Collaborative Initiatives in Curriculum Delivery: The Role of School Management Team and Sustainable Leadership
Developing Inclusive, Collaborative Initiatives in Curriculum Delivery: The Role of School Management Team and Sustainable Leadership
Ntombizandile Gcelu, Fumane P. Khanare. © 2021. 10 pages.
While teaching and learning are underway, the world is still grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on educational systems, particularly curriculum delivery across...