WERA Keynote @ CIMIE 2024: “Respice Prospice: Towards Sustainable Care and Support with Youth in the Global South”

Prof Fumane Portia Khanare is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the Faculty of Education, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research focuses on rural education, in particular, voices of care and support for learners with neurodiverse needs, orphans and vulnerable learners, HIV and AIDS Education, as well as the holistic well-being of youth and teachers in rural communities. She combines asset-based approaches and participatory arts-based research methods as pathways to advance the voices of youth and teachers, fostering systematically inclusive and enabling learning environments. She has been a MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative Fellow at Columbia University, the University of California in Los Angeles, and the Human Sciences Research Council. 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. From 2020 to 2023 She co-convened the International Youth Exchange Project titled “Participate South Africa-Germany and Zimbabwe,” which focused on enabling youth participation and agency towards realising of SGD 8: Decent work and economic growth among marginalised communities. Prof Khanare is the current President of the Education Association of South Africa (EASA), an executive member of the Postgraduate Forum of Southern Africa (PGFSA), and a member of the SADC Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) Research Forum. Recently, she co-edited a book titled: Successful Pathways of the Well-being of Black Students.