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Professor Choshi D. Kasanda BIOGRAPHY
Professor in Mathematics Studies
Prof. Choshi D Kasanda obtained his Bachelor of Science
Faculty of Education
(Education) degree majoring in Mathematics and Physics
University of Namibia Science at the University of Zambia (UNZA), in 1974. He
obtained his Master of Science degree in Mathematics
Education (1977) and a PhD (Mathematics Education)
(1985) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
He taught and supervised Masters students at the UNZA,
served as founding HoD of the Department of Mathematics
and Science Education, as well as Assistant Dean. Prof.
Kasanda has been in the employment of UNAM since 1992.
At UNAM, he has served in a variety of capacities including
that of Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Education from
2008-2011, at a time when the Colleges of Education were
being merged with the Faculty of Education. Currently,
Prof. Kasanda is the Deputy Director of the Teaching and
Learning Improvement Unit (TLIU) which oversees the
quality in teaching and learning at UNAM. Prof. Kasanda
has carried out numerous research in his area of expertise
and has widely published in journals, written chapters in
books and presented at Conferences and Seminars. His
research interests, inter alia, includes teaching and learning
in Mathematics and Science, Indigenous Knowledge
Systems and the subject of gender in Mathematics and
Science teaching and learning.
