Loveness Mahwire is a Mathematics Education lecturer and doctoral candidate in Education. Her research focuses on teacher professional development (TPD) and its influence on pedagogical practice in under-resourced primary school contexts. She examines how the quality of professional learning shapes teachers’ instructional decisions, classroom enactment, and learner engagement.
Situated within mathematics education, her work also explores the integration of computational thinking into mathematics teaching. She has engaged with TurtleStitch as a pedagogical tool for fostering mathematical reasoning, problem-solving, and algorithmic thinking through creative design-based learning. This strand of her research interrogates how digital and computational approaches can expand access to meaningful mathematical learning, particularly in contexts marked by structural inequality.
Her scholarship engages critically with questions of teacher agency, pedagogical judgment, and equity, investigating how teachers interpret and adapt professional development within complex institutional environments. Through qualitative inquiry, she contributes to debates on sustainable, context-responsive models of professional learning and equitable mathematics education reform.
