Having been active in sustained service delivery to impoverished and disadvantaged rural regions and provinces such as Limpopo Province for a number of years, I have consistently linked my academic and professional training to designing and delivering development to rural areas – notably in the field of Educational Psychology (including the Psychology of Mathematics Education).
I have been engaged since 2001 in work in Narrative Career Counselling which, I hope, will become the model for Career Counselling throughout South Africa – especially to severely impoverished and disadvantaged areas in which it has already been tried and tested and shown to produce remarkable results. I have been instrumental in getting the University of Pretoria’s Education Faculty to create opportunities for rural and disadvantaged students with promise and potential to enroll at the University of Pretoria to train as teachers.
Transformation is one of my main ambitions and I am pursuing this aim by extending my research projects to Gauteng, North-West, Mpumalanga and Limpopo. If anyone is interested n collaborative research or if you have something to contribute (e.g. ideas to make a difference, making funding available for e.g. Vegetable gardens in impoverished regions or at AIDS Clinics), please contact me?
For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
( St. Francis of Assisi )
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Innovating Counseling for Self- and Career Construction
Psychology of Career Adaptability, Employability and Resilience
Brings together the views of academics, career counselling theorists and practitioners
Combines the three constructs of career adaptability, employability, and career resilience
Presents perspectives and theory on how to deal with workplace transition insecurity
Prof. Kobus Maree and colleagues’ latest scholarly book by Springer appeared a few days ago
(please see flyer below for details).
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Prof. Kobus Maree and Prof. Annamaria Di Fabio’s latest scholarly book
(co-authored by 28 of the leading authors in the field of career counselling in the world)
Counselling for career construction
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Shaping the Story
A Guide to Reflective career counselling
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Psychology of Career Counseling: New Challenges for a New Era
“GRAD — Student Resources”
Please join me in thanking the author, Mrs Ruda Landman, whom we all remember for her contributions to journalism (e.g., Carte Blanche), for providing us with these outstanding resources. Every student, prospective student, or graduate will benefit immensely from them. Ruda, you are one of a kind, and it is deeply inspiring to learn that you are still as inspirational and courageous as ever. Thank you so much.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue: Innovative and integrative career construction counseling for enhancing the existential experience of gifted and talented learners
Guest Editor: Professor Kobus Maree, University of Pretoria
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2024
Time to choose a career? A psychologist offers tips on the journey after high school
Coping with exams during a pandemic
Prof Kobus Maree of the Department of Educational Psychology offers lecturers advice on how to check in on their emotions during exam time in the midst of all the challenges brought about by COVID-19.
Degree, diploma, or certificate which of these qualifications offers the students their ‘best’ chance in the occupational world?
Prof. Maree was awarded the Psychological Association of SA Lifetime Award
Prof. Maree was awarded the Psychological Association of SA Lifetime Award in recognition of a person that has dedicated his life to Psychology in South Africa at the Pan African Psychology Congress in Durban on 19 September 2017
The article ‘Why career counselling is more valuable now than ever before‘ has been published on The Conversation.
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Recent Interviews with Prof Maree
UP EXPERT OPINION - ‘There’s reason to remain upbeat about the future’ – UP educational psychology expert to matriculants at career crossroads ‘Moenie leerlinge met bangpraatjies wegdryf van wiskunde’ Education crisis looms in 2025 as budget cuts threaten teachers’...
Prof. J. G. Maree Presenting papers at the Psychological Society of South Africa’s (PsySSA) 30th Anniversary and the 10th Pan African Psychology Union (PAPU) Anniversary Congress, Emperors Palace, 10 October 2024.
A brief video taken at the event :
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“The secret”
(performed by Victor and Adeline Twigge after adapting an idea and a song written by Kobus Maree and changing the melody)