Jonathan D Jansen is Distinguished Professor of education at Stellenbosch University. He is President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and Chairman of the Jakes Gerwel Fellowship, as well as an author and co‑editor of Schooling in South Africa: The Enigma of Inequality (Springer, 2019). [orcid: 0000-0002-8614-5678]
Ms Theola Farmer-Phillips is a departmental head at Yellowwood Primary School in Cape Town. She serves as an advisory member of the Primary Science Programme. She is a student at the University of the Western Cape and in her free time she does content development and mentoring at the Cape Teaching and Leadership Institution. [orcid: 0000-0002-1347-7591]