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Dominique Cook is an English teacher for Grades 5 to 7. Her professional and research interests lie at the intersection of language education, early childhood development, and digital safety. She is particularly focused on how young children engage with digital environments and how educators can support safe and developmentally appropriate digital practices. She is currently affiliated with the University of Pretoria, where her research centers on enhancing digital safety education in the early years. Her work draws on interdisciplinary perspectives, including coding, robotics, language, and play-based learning, to develop practical and contextually relevant approaches for educators. Her research aims to contribute to the development of conceptually grounded and classroom-applicable strategies that support safe, ethical, and meaningful digital engagement among young learners.

Dr Joyce West, is an early childhood education scholar at the University of Pretoria, whose work sits at the intersection of language, literacy, teacher education, and educational technology. Her research focuses on how young children learn to read and write in multilingual contexts, with particular attention to African language literacy development, orthographic features, readability, and the implications of linguistic complexity for equitable early-grade instruction. She works across mixed-methods and design-oriented approaches to generate evidence that is both theoretically robust and usable for classroom practice, including tools and resources that support teacher decision-making and inclusive learning. A central thread in her scholarship is the question of how pedagogical innovation, especially technology-mediated learning, can expand access to high-quality early literacy experiences while remaining ethically grounded and context-responsive. This includes interests in learning analytics, human–machine teaching, and the careful integration of generative AI into teacher education and curriculum design. Dr West collaborates with practitioners and partners to translate research into professional learning and classroom-ready materials, with a strong emphasis on multilingual pedagogy, translanguaging-informed practices, and equity-driven assessment.

Dr. Kayla Willemse is a lecturer in the Department of Early Childhood Education at the University of Pretoria, with research interests that span educational technology, coding and robotics, and broader digital innovation. Her work sits at the intersection of early childhood development, human-centred design, and educational technology. A central thread in her scholarship is how emerging technologies can be used in ethical, playful, and context-sensitive ways to strengthen learning, creativity, and meaningful participation in everyday life. She also engages with digital design and examines how artificial intelligence can influence the quality, efficiency, and ethics of work across continent.

Cook, Dominique, Joyce West, and Kayla Willemse. “Developing a triangulated model for effective Digital Safety Education in the early years.” Journal of Education and Learning Technology 7, no.3 (2026): 311 – 328. https://doi.org/10.38159/jelt.2026738