Professor Ina Joubert has more than 35 years’ experience in education. She has acted as school principal, lecturer in distance education and head of an academic department at the University of Pretoria. She has recently been appointed as Executive Academic Director of SANTS Private Higher Education Institution. She has published numerous books, book chapters and scholarly articles. She has supervised MEd (18) and PhD (20) students and she received C3 rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF). She was awarded a special achievement award for the promotion of Afrikaans in Early Childhood Education by the Academy for Science and Art in 2018. Professor Joubert’s work in literacy and Citizenship education in Early Childhood, has brought several accolades to herself.