Universal Design for Learning Approaches in Mathematics Education

Matshidiso Moleko is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies at the College of Education, University of South Africa (UNISA). Pretoria. Earlier, she has been Mathematics Teacher at various high schools in Free State, South Africa. She also served as Mathematics Junior Lecturer and then Lecturer at Maluti FET College and the University of the Free State, respectively. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies (specialising in Mathematics Education). Her career in higher education spans over 16 years as a New Academic Tutorial Programme Coordinator (UFS, Qwaqwa Campus), Teaching and Learning Coordinator (UFS, Bloemfontein) and Mathematics Education Lecturer (UFS, Bloemfontein). She was Visiting Scholar at Rhode Island University and Boston College in the USA, in 2022. She is an established scholar who was the CSIR grant holder (2014-2016), BAAP grant holder (2021-2022) and Women in Research grant holder (2025-2028).

Mncedisi Maphalala is Full Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies at the College of Education, University of South Africa (UNISA). He is Former Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the Durban University of Technology and Former Dean in the Faculty of Education at the University of Zululand. He holds a D.Ed. in curriculum studies from the University of Zululand. His career in higher education spans over 19 years as Research Professor (North-West University), Professor at the University of Zululand and UNISA and Institutional Researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand. He has also previously worked for the KZN Department of Education (as Teacher, Head and Deputy Principal); from May to August 2015, he was Visiting Scholar at the University of North Dakota (USA). He is an established researcher who holds an NRF C2 rating.