Feminist Pedagogy and the South African Curriculum: The case of Women and Food Security 1 ISSN: 2517- 9861 Abstract South Africa is one of only a few countries that has Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the secondary school curriculum. Of these few, SA is even more singular in that its Geography syllabus includes GIS geoprocessing. A mixed-methods approach was used for this study and results show that only a minority of teachers teach practical GIS classes irrespective of their Examination Board or education authority, access to hardware, how resourced their school is or whether they teach at a private or a government school. Te key determinants to teaching practical GIS lessons are the teacher’s perceived GIS expertise and access to spatial data and time. Software, connectivity, and power supply are also identifed as challenges. Teachers who participated in the study overwhelmingly agree that there are numerous benefts to using GIS in the classroom. Tey also expressed a keen willingness to attend GIS courses and learn more about QGIS. A sample group evaluated how OpenStreetMap (OSM) could be used to create local spatial data and how QGIS can be used to teach the GIS curriculum and used to map local data for individual research projects. Tere is an urgent need for more current research, both globally and locally, into how GIS can be used more in secondary school pedagogy. Keywords: Geographic Information Systems (GIS); QGIS; OpenStreetMap (OSM); Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G); Project-based GIS Learning (PBL) An evaluation of the use of GIS and open data in secondary school education in South Africa, with reference to QGIS and OpenStreetMap (OSM) Bridget Fleming and Mary Evans School of Geography, Archaeology & Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa (bridget@thinkteacher.co.za); (mary.evans@wits.ac.za), https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4780-8106 and https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1164-9932 DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.46622/jogea.v4i1.2038 Journal of Geography Education in Africa (JoGEA) Journal of the Southern African Geography Teachers’ Association - sagta.org.za