Rajendran Govender
Deputy Dean.Teaching and Learning
School of Science ＆ Mathematics Education
University of the Western Cape
South Africa
Biography
Dr. Rajendran Govender is currently an Associate Professor in Mathematics Education in the School of Science and Mathematics Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of the Western Cape. In the interim he is serving as the Deputy Dean of Teaching and Learning. Rajendran started teaching school mathematics in 1985, became a college mathematics lecturer in 1995 and in 2002 he became a subject advisor of Mathematics in KwaZulu-Natal. In 2003 he joined the University of Limpopo as a mathematics education lecturer, and in 2008 took up the post of mathematics education lecturer at UWC wherein he has been promoted to senior and lecturer in 2013 and recently to Associate Professor of Mathematics Education
Research Interest
His core areas of mathematics education research embrace reasoning, generalizing, proof, problem solving, modelling and the use of ICT in mathematics.
