Wendy Smidt

POST-GRADUATE STUDIES:
Current position: Postdoctoral fellow at the Global Institute for Teacher Education Society (GITES), in the Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Mowbray Campus.

2023: Cape Peninsula University of Technology, D.Ed.
Research topic: The use of film literacy in the development of critical self-awareness and transpersonal growth amongst a group of post-school youth.

2015: Stellenbosch University, MAVA (Ed).
Research topic: Critical citizenship education: investigating new understandings in a teaching and learning environment at Montagu High School, Western Cape.

PUBLICATIONS:
Smidt, W. 2015. Critical citizenship education: investigating new understandings in a teaching and learning environment at Montagu High School, Western Cape. Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Education. Dept. of Visual Arts. 2015, 98 pages. doi: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97910

Smidt W. 2020. Engaging the transformative potential of shortfilm-making toward critical awareness and transpersonal growth among post-school youth. Integral Transpers J. 2020;14(14):26–53. https://doi.org/10.32031/ITIBTE_ ITJ_14-SW2

Smidt, W. 2023. The use of film literacy in the development of critical self-awareness and transpersonal growth amongst a group of post-school youth. Thesis (D.Ed.)--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2023, 328 pages. doi: https://etd.cput.ac.za/handle/20.500.11838/3879

Smidt, W., & Waghid, Z. 2024. Nurturing youth film literacy: Post-qualitative arts-based inquiry into critical self-awareness. The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 20(1), 13 pages. doi: https://doi.org/10.4102/td.v20i1.1382

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Shortfilm-making as an experiential pedagogical activity, critical engagement and social impact, arts-based research methods, personal and transpersonal growth within the context of young adult education.