Educational Technologist (Senior Lecturer)

Tel: 031 373 5259

QUALIFICATIONS

• Professional Diploma in Digital Learning Design (Glasgow Caledonian University, the Digital Learning Institute & the European Qualifications Framework)
• PhD In Visual and Performing Arts (Durban University of Technology)
• Faculty Certificate in Online Teaching (FCOT) (Manipal University)
• Certified Trainer (Blackboard)
• MEd (Computer-Assisted Education) (University of Pretoria)
• Further Diploma in Education – Computers in Education (University of the Free State)
• Higher Diploma in Education (University of Pretoria)
• BA Honours – Afrikaans and Dutch Literature (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal)
• BA (University of Pretoria)

BIOGRAPHY

Marí Peté has worked as educational technologist at the Durban University of Technology since 1994. Here, in 2000, she was part of a small team who founded Pioneers Online — a cascading, cross-disciplinary community of practice who laid down foundations for innovative eLearning in under-resourced environments. In 2023, Marí and a team authored the university’s position paper on generative AI and assessment integrity.

From 1992-1993, Marí helped establish a computerised mark entry system for the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages of the University of Cambridge in 1991, during which time she was a founder member of EuroCall which promoted Computer-Assisted Language Learning.

More recently, Marí’s approach to educational technology has been that of a technology ethnographer. In her PhD study, “Lecturers’ encounters with technological teaching tools”, she used Norman Denzin’s performative interview technique to turn interview transcripts into poetry, to illuminate teachers’ agency in relation to technology. The study rendered a collection of 52 poems of an autobiographic, theory and participant-voiced nature.

PUBLICATIONS 

(accredited by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training)

• Peté, M. 2024. Choosing the Imagination to Comprehend University Lecturers’ Agency in Relation to Technology. In Vincent, A (Ed). Poetic Inquiry Atlas Vol 1:  A Survey of Rigorous Poetics. Delaware, Malaga: Vernon Press. pp 261-279
• Peté, M. 2024. Inquiring with Actor–Network Theory and Poetic Inquiry to Understand University Lecturers’ Agency in Relation to Technology. In Van Rooyen, H and Pithouse-Morgan K (Eds). Poetic Inquiry for the Human and Social Sciences: Voices from the South and North. Cape Town: HSRC Press. pp 173-186
• Peté, M. 2022. Thinging Teachers: gleaning nearness in dis/embodied eLearning through poetic inquiry. Agenda. Gendered Implications of New Technologies and posthuman identities: perspectives from the Global South”. Volume 36. pp.19-33
• Coopasami, M., Knight, S. & Peté, M. 2017. e-Learning readiness amongst nursing students at the Durban University of Technology. Health SA Gesondheid. Volume 22, December 2017, pp 300–306. Published at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1025984817300807
• Cavanagh, M. & Peté, M. 2017. Fashion students choose how to learn by constructing videos of pattern drafting. British Journal of Educational Technology. 48(6). Nov. 2017. pp 1502–1511.
• Peté, M. Virtual conference on learning futures. In Quinlan, K.M. (Ed). 2016. How Higher Education Feels. Commentaries and Poems that Illuminate Emotions in Learning and Teaching. Sense Publishers. Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei. pp. 257-258.
• Van der Merwe, A., Bozalek, V., Ivala, E., Nagel, L., Peté, M. & Vanker, C. Blended learning with technology. In Kilfoil, W.R. (Ed). 2015. Moving beyond the hype: A contextualised view of learning with technology in higher education. Pretoria: Universities South Africa.
• Peté, M. 2013. Employing poetry to understand the transformative experience of attending a virtual conference. Qualitative Inquiry 19(2). Feb. 2013. pp. 127-128. SAGE.

CREATIVE OUTPUTS / POETRY BOOKS (ACCREDITED BY DHET) 

• 2023: Net. Covid Verse (2 units)
• 2021: Light Travels | Lig Reis (2 units)
• 2020: Winter: Water and Fire | Winter: Water en Vuur. Maloti-Drakensberg Verse (1 unit)

POETRY

https://sites.google.com/view/mari-pete/poetry?pli=1

• • Peté, M. 2024. Onions and Irises. Leopard Press.
  • Peté, M. 2023. OlduvAI to AI. We with our Tech Tools. Leopard Press.
  • Peté, M. 2022.  Covid Verse. Leopard Press.
  • Peté, M. 2020. Light travels | Lig reis. Leopard Press.
  • Peté, M. 2019. Winter: Water and Fire | Winter: Water en Vuur. Maloti-Drakensberg Verse.  Leopard Press.
  • Peté, M. 2015. Step through. Leopard Press.
  • Peté, M. 2007. Amytis. Umsinsi Press.
  • Peté, M. 2002. begin. Umsinsi Press.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (PAST 5 YEARS)

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