Dr Adeline Twigge

Adeline Twigge is an educational psychologist who obtained her BSc (Ed) degree at the University of Pretoria in 1981, after which she became a biology teacher at the Afrikaans high school Dr EG Jansen in Boksburg. She completed her BEd (Orthodidactics) degree in 1995 (also at the University of Pretoria) and continued her teaching career at the Afrikaans primary school Concordia. In 1999, she completed her MEd(Educational Psychology) degree at the University of Pretoria and started her career as educational psychologist, first at the Dr WK du Plessis School (Springs) for learners with epilepsy and learning disabilities, and in 2002 at the School of Achievement (Germiston) for children with learning disabilities. She eventually started a private educational psychology practice in Boksburg in 2005.

Adeline has served on the Gauteng Welfare Services Advisory Committee (a non-profit organization that caters for individuals in urgent need of welfare and psychological services) since 2008. She completed her PhD (Educational Psychology) in 2015. Her research has been published (together with her promotor and co-author Professor Kobus Maree) in the distinguished Frontiers in Psychology, which is ranked as the 5th most-cited publisher among the twenty largest publishers in its field. Their article was also published in a Frontiers eBook as part of the Research Topic titled From Meaning of Working to Meaningful Lives: The Challenges of Expanding Decent Work.