Dr Krystle Ontong

Krystle Ontong is a Senior and Academic Development Lecturer in the department of Construction Economics and Management, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town. She obtained her PhD in 2013 in the field of Critical Human Geography and Environmental Education at Stellenbosch University where she also taught in the Curriculum Studies Department. Her research is in human geography where she critically explores the conceptual and practical intersections between space, place, land and people and how their entangling produces spatial and gender divisions, environmental problems and social ills. The latter she argues, could be addressed more efficiently through the avenue of place-and-land-conscious education which is underpinned by both western and indigenous epistemologies. In the teaching and learning domain, her research involves productive pedagogies and cybergogies, curriculum inquiry, student engagement and e-learning. She has published in several peer-reviewed journals both locally and internationally and is a member of various education and geography associations. To date, she has presented at more than eighteen conferences locally and internationally and reviewed a number of articles and theses. She also received a National Research Foundation (NRF) rating for her research in 2020.