Publications and Conference presentations available at https://johannesburg.academia.edu/MarlenedeBeer

Part-time Research Proposals Supervisor to 22 Honour year Southern Business School students.

Psycho-social; A.D.D., behavioural & integration challenges; academic performance and motivation.

As AiU is a start up university I was responsible to set up and build a Student Affairs Department & responsible for all student orientation, accommodation, food, health, psycho-social wellbeing, community service, sports, arts, cultural & co-curriculum activities.Other activities included: various Committee Representation; Research; Curriculum Development (i.e. Co-Curriculum & Leadership course) & general Management functions. Publication topics included: -Ethics & Values of Service & Learning: Code of Conduct /Ethics of Students during Service Activities, providing Values Statements and Ethical Standards for the following areas: Respect for the Dignity of Persons; Responsible Caring; Integrity in Relationships; Responsibility to Society and Institutions; Service Pledges. -Leadership & Co-Curricular Involvement through Groups, Organisations & Communities: Group Formation, Team Dynamics & Facilitation; Community Work & Participation.-Student Support & Development Booklet. -Peer Buddies/Helpers Handbook. - Student Development Theories & Models.Conference presentation:Nurturing Students’ Purpose and Integrity through University Vision, Mission, Values & logo symbolism. 3rd Regional Convention on Student Development: Enhancing Student Leadership – Developing Purpose & Integrity, Bandung, Indonesia.Voluntary & Community Involvement:-AiU Chaperone with Student Clubs Activities / Outings (Malaysia) -SPCA Penang, Malaysia

Duties included: -set up, coordinate & maintain Student Affairs & Support Services, Psycho-Social Interventions & Personal Development. -Supervision of over 30 Social Work Interns (2nd, 3rd yr & honours). -Supervised Masters students on their Socio-Economic Transformation projects & acted as class co-facilitator (Faculty member). -Research/Surveys & Curriculum Development. Publication topics included:-Student Support & Development Booklet. -Student Development Theories & Models. -Volunteer /Student /Intern Code of Practice. -Investigation into alleged spirit-sightings/felt/possessed experiences of foundation year female students at CIDA City Campus during 2007-2008. -Meditative Poetics exploring a Reinventive Education.-Futures beyond social cohesion: Lessons for the ‘Classroom’. In Inayatullah, S., Bussey, M. and Milojević, I. “Neohumanist Educational Futures: Liberating the Pedagogical Intellect.” Chapter 10:202-226. Taipei: Tamkang University Press. -Maharishi’s CBE, CIDA & the GENE Pool. In Lessem, R. “Indaba zoPhando: Consciousness Based Education, Integral Gene Pool Research Framework & Social & Economic Transformation.”-You Are Welcome: Activities to Promote Self-Esteem and Resilience in Children from a Diverse Community, including Asylum Seekers and Refugees (book review). -Success Comes from Within… Conference Presentation: Spirit-sightings/felt/possessed experiences of foundation year female students at CIDA City Campus. 12th South African Association for Senior Student Affairs Professionals (SAASSAP) National Conference, NMMU, Port Elizabeth, South Africa (20-22 Oct.’10). Voluntary & Community Involvement:Lam Rim Buddhist Centre: Involvement with spiritual activities & outreach/networking - Peace Pole, Meditation, Yoga, Tai Chi; also helped out as a learning Heart Yoga Meditation Instructor at the Centre (JHB).

Health Quest Academy (JHB, '08-'10) CIDA City Campus (JHB, '05-'07)Family & Child Care (NI, April '05) Independant Stress Management & Meditation group facilitation (SA & NI,1995-2004) Child & Family Welfare (Sasolburg, Feb ’93-May ’94)Place of Safety (Benoni, Dec ’91-Jan ’93)Social Work Student Internship/Practical Placements/Holiday work:- Hillbrow Twilight Children Shelter: group work on health & wellbeing; community volunteer training programme & research - programme evaluation (1991) - Namaqauland Mines Holiday Youth Programme Coordinator (June-July 1990; Dec 1990-Jan 1991)- Johannesburg Child Welfare Society: Riverley ext. focus on group and community work (1990) - National Cancer Association: focus on community work (JHB, 1989) - Brixton Old Age Home: focus on group work (1989) - Johannesburg Hospital (1988)

Activities included: writing reports & proposals for workshops/seminars & research projects - Equality of Religious Practice; Cultural Diversity & African Day; Gauteng Traditional Healers; the Nama people in and around Port Nolloth; Cultural Youth Days; Eid al-Adha - Muslim Sacrifice Festival; Exploring Culture; ‘do the dead have rights/burial sights; indigenous land & land reform; meetings with Commissioners, -Education Committee, -Research & Policy Committee; Strengthening Partnership of Constitutional Bodies. ww.crlcommission.org.za/

International literature study on Parenting Effectiveness TrainingPublication: Changing Women, Changing Worlds: Evangelical Women in Church, Community and Politics (book review).

The purpose of the in-depth case study was to explore and describe the emergence of a constantly evolving Pushkin Model. It traces the emergence of the Pushkin Model over 17 years in the promotion of creativity and imagination in education and community development on the island of Ireland (N&S).Publications:de Beer, M. 2005. Pushkin’s Organic 4-petalled Flower & Tree of Life Model… Towards an integral 4 Quadrants and Creative Spiral Dynamics interpretation of The Pushkin Trust. (163 pages / 60,000 words).de Beer. M. 2005. Pushkin’s Organic 4-Petalled Flower… & Tree of Life Model. The Pushkin Trust Schools’ Programme 2005 Annual Magazine, p.14-15.Conference Presentations:The Pushkin Trust - Enables, Celebrates and Affirms Inspired Learning through Creativity in Education: An integral 4 Quadrants & Creative Spiral Dynamics Model. ESRC Seminar Series: Creating Learning Communities: Learner’s Perspectives. Organised by Creativity in Education and Knowledge and Skills for Learning to Learn. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. (18 Nov. 2004)The Pushkin Model: Facilitating Children’s & Adult’s Creativity & Imagination on the Island of Ireland. Presented at the Culture and Unconsciousness Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of East London, UK. (9-10 July 2004)

Research: Social cohesion & educational development - The role of local & international organisations (donor & lending) in developing social cohesion through education & development in countries of transition. Other activities: inputs, recommendations & proposals to individual linked to various international organisations, e.g.: World Bank & British Council projects in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Russia and Sri Lanka; Guest lecturing on social cohesion & SA transition & mentoring of MA TESOL and MA Education & Management, Sri Lankan educators funded by the World Bank on their social cohesion research projects; writing of research funding proposals.Publications & Conference Presentations topics included: -Echoes of a Wounded African Healer. -A Seventh Moment Bricoleurship and Narrative Turn To Poetics in Educational Research.-Tango Romantica or Liasons Dangereuses?’ Social Cohesion & Education - ‘Simpler Than You Think, More Complex Than You Imagine’.-Transpersonal Realities & New Leadership in Developing Social Cohesion Through Education.-The Rhetoric & Politics of Social Cohesion Discourses.-Social Cohesion Perspectives. -Education for Diversity: the Social Cohesion Challenge. -International Organisations Intervention in Developing Social Cohesion Through Education. Voluntary & Community Involvement: -Meditation group (initiator and organiser of weekly sessions at the University of Ulster, N.Ireland. 2003-5)-Young at Arts: International Creative Arts Festival for children and young people; Festival of Journeys, Stranmillis University College, Belfast, N.Ireland. (Oct. 2004)-Soul at Play group for students, staff and community members; people of any religion or none, coming together to create dialogue, share own life journeys and personal growth, and to develop an ever deepening conversation with self and the world; joint initiator and facilitator of monthly meetings and workshops at the University of Ulster (Coleraine & Portrush), N.Ireland. (2000-3)

Responsibility to Honours Degree final year level: research, curriculum design and development, syllabus design, materials development, course management and administration, teaching and examining, & supervision of honours mini-dissertations. Other activities included: - Organising and presenting Community Policing workshops;- Design and development of training units for Cooperative Learning in South Africa (COLSA) on Diversity, Independent Complaints Directorate and Community Visitors System; - Facilitating students learning with the KATORUS (Thokoza, Katlehong and Vosloorus) Presidential Project;- Joint Conference planning and organising: Police Officials as Victims of Trauma and Crisis;- Facilitator for Community Policing Station Superintendents’ and Managers’ Training Programme (Unisa - Health Psychology Unit - Centre for Peace Action);- Facilitator for HELP-Programme (Helping to Ensure Learner Efficiency Programme).Voluntary & Community Involvement: -Disability Forum member (1999);-Women’s /Gender Forum member, Joint initiator & facilitator (1997-8); -NUTESA (National Union for Technikons in South Africa), Academic Representative (1997-8); -Co-Initiator & facilitator of the LesBiGay Community Policing Task Team (1997-8);-Executive Committee Member of the Newlands Community Policing Forum, Johannesburg (1996-7); -Newlands Community Policing Forum Member, Johannesburg (1994-5).Publication titles included: -Crime Prevention through Environmental Design. -Police Heterosexism and Homophobia: The Langemaat Case. -The legacy of discriminatory policing in South Africa and the transformation to equality: Initiatives and opportunities for the lesbigay community policing task group. -Diversity awareness: to promote an equal and non-discriminatory service. -Group formation, team dynamics and facilitation. -Police community relations: public relations and media relations. -Community work and participation in policing.