Cg America

Biography

Carina America is a lecturer and subject co-ordinator of Business Education in the Faculty of Education at the Stellenbosch University. She graduated from the University of the Western Cape with a Master's degree in Commerce and completed her PhD in Education at the University of Stellenbosch. Her work and academic experience over the past three decades have been largely linked to business and business education. After qualifying as a schoolteacher, she taught in the fields of Accounting, Economics and Business Studies. Thereafter, she worked in the financial services sector, after which she joined the higher education sector as a commerce lecturer, first in a Business Faculty and then in an Education Faculty.

Research Interest

She has published in accredited journals and presented papers at various local and international conferences, focussing on sustainable development and issues related to in-service and pre-service teaching in Business Education. For the past nine years, she has been involved in research projects on curriculum and assessment for Umalusi and written several technical reports as the leader of the Business Studies team. She has supervised and co-supervised postgraduate students and has been an external examiner for masters and doctoral theses. She reviewed several articles written for publication related to Business Education.