Degrees Held
- BA, Cape Town, 1989
- HDE (PG) Sec., Cape Town, 1990
- MCRP, Cape Town, 2000
- PhD, Rhodes, 2021
Profile
Experience
Accomplishments
Experience
- Over 20 years’ service as lecturer in this field at this University. Five years’ service as a teacher.
Accomplishments
- Certificate of Appreciation, Distinguished Contribution to the Success of Blended Teaching and Learning of the 2020 Academic Year During the Covid-19 Pandemic, 30 June 2021
- Community Engagement, Grant Generation & Inter-University Collaboration (co-awardee), 2021
- Long Service Award (15 Years), January 2017
- National Research Foundation PhD Scholarship 2014-2016
- Scholarship winner at the University of Cape
Town (2000), - Cape Education Department Merit Bursary (1987-1990),
Research Interests
- Mountain-oriented education
- Mountain studies
- Mapwork education
- Fieldwork
Teaching Interests
- Research methodology
- Climatology
- Geography Education
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Chapters in Books
Journal Articles
- Heath, G. and McKay, T.J.M. (2024). Communication as power in South Africa: the proposed Northern KwaZulu-Natal cableway. South African Geographical Journal, 1-18, DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2024.2349302
- Heath, G. (2023). The acquisition of spatial and mountain literacy by children in Hergé’s Tintin in Tibet. Journal of Geography Education in Africa, 6: 53 – 78. https://doi.org/10.46622/jogea.v6i1.4321
- Heath, G. (2023). South African Mountain Guides and their Experiences of, and Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic. African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 12(1):339-350. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46222/ajhtl.19770720.371
- Heath, G. (2023). A survey of mountaineers’ observations of global warming effects in the Hex River mountains, South-Western Cape, South Africa. Oxford Open Climate Change. DOI: 1093/oxfclm/kgad012
- Heath, G.E.C. (2021). The Northern Drakensberg Cableway: An unworkable yet immortal development. African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 10(5), 1670-1682. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46222/ajhtl.19770720-185.
- Heath, G. (2017). The territorial labelling of a heritage site in the north eastern Cape Drakensberg, South Africa- the case of the Linton Cave. Les carnets du LabEx ITEM. Grenoble, France. https://labexitem.hypotheses.org/567.
- Heath, G. (2011). In Search of Mapwork: A worthwhile book for the geography classroom. Yesterday & Today, 7(13), 185-188.
Chapters in Books
- Heath, G. and O’Donoghue, R. (2021), Supporting Student Teachers to Teach Catchment and River Management in Geography. Schudel, I, Songqwaru, Z.,Tshiningayamwe, S. and Lotz-Sisitka, H. (Eds.), Teaching and Learning for Change: Education and Sustainability in South Africa (pp.103-120). Cape Town: African Minds. DOI: 10.47622/9781928502241.
Community Involvement
- 2016-2024, Cluster co-representative, Social Science Education
- 2022-2023, invited speaker to address two fora on the proposed Drakensberg cableway
- 2021, Co-awardee, School of Education Community Engagement
- 2020-2021, Keep-it-Cool Climate Change Education, Project to educate high school teachers about climate change
- 2016-2021, Cluster co-representative, Social Science Education
Teaching Expertise
- Understanding research
- Geography Education topics, including climatology and development studies
- B Ed Hons Education for Sustainable Development and Education for Climate Change
Students Supervision
Honours
Masters
Honours
- Noncaba Khumalo (2023). Climate change education in geography CAPS curriculum: A desktop study exploring teachers’ practices in South Africa.
- Sphamandla Gumede (2023). The teaching of the impact of climate change on Africa’s environment: The factors affecting effective teaching of the impact of climate change on Africa’s environment In South African schools.
- Siphesihle Zulu (2023). The Teaching of the Future of Non-conventional Energy in South Africa in Grade 11 (CAPS).
- Annelise Venketas (2022). The role of the youth (aged 14-25) as active agents of climate change awareness in South Africa: A literature review.
- Siphesihle Mthanti (2022). The role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the teaching and learning of Geography at the secondary school level: A literature review.
- Senamile Hlongwane (2022). Challenges faced by Geography Further Education and Training educators when teaching the Geographic Information Systems topic in rural KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape secondary schools.
- Shaylen Naidoo (2020). Representation of tenets of climate change mitigation in South African Further Education and Training Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (Geography): A content analysis of relevant literature.
- Ayanda Africa (2019). Education for Climate Change at the FET Geography level in South Africa- a literature review.
- Ntombizodumo Mkhungo (2019). A Comparison on how sustainable development is taught between South African schools and United States (California) in the senior high school phase.
Masters
- Shaylen Naidoo (2021-2023). Content analysis of relevant literature on how the tenets of climate change mitigation are represented in Geography Education modules at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Education (Edgewood Campus).
