This department is responsible for three main subject areas: Geography education, Mathematics education and Science education. DMSE strives towards providing quality initial teacher education as well as research in these subject disciplines and in areas closely related to them. The academic members of staff who form part of DMSE focus on promoting innovative classroom practices that are in line with contemporary teaching and learning theories. As a department we strive to prepare committed and reflective teachers and we will guide you to develop a personal response to the challenges of education. The academic members of this department are also involved in providing other postgraduate programmes, professional development for teachers, contributions to national and international conferences, dissemination of research work in journals and participation in international research projects with other foreign universities.