Karen Collett

Karen Collett is a senior lecturer in the discipline of school leadership and management in the Educational Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape. She has worked in the areas of school/teacher development through NGEO's and higher education institutions (HEIs) in South African and Namibia. She has a particular interest in teacher well-being, school leadership development and the development of schools as thinking and learning organizations. She was the South African coordinator and co-initiator of an Erasmus Plus partnership focused on teacher well-being and language diversity in collaboration with partners in HEIs and schools in Norway, Denmark and Ireland. A new recent research interest is in the areas of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) and the development of student academic literacies. In the recent years, she has partnered with a professor from the United States on COIL and internationalization of the curriculum projects in teacher education.

Publications

Towards a “Response-Able Pedagogy” in Teacher Development Through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL): An American-South African Partnership
Towards a “Response-Able Pedagogy” in Teacher Development Through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL): An American-South African Partnership
Karen Collett, Alina Slapac, Sarah A. Coppersmith, Jingxin Cheng. © 2024. 29 pages.
Using the “Response-Able Pedagogy” conceptual framework, the authors identify how their COIL course probed the enactment of the possibilities and challenges of the ethical and...
Social Justice Pedagogy and Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL): Across Three Partner Higher Education Institutions
Social Justice Pedagogy and Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL): Across Three Partner Higher Education Institutions
Alina Slapac, Karen Collett, Frances Joan Wessels, Gasant Gamiet, Hege Knudsmoen. © 2023. 21 pages.
Drawing on reflections by five lecturers involved in two collaborative online international learning (COIL) pilot interventions, this chapter aims at highlighting key learnings...