ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE: PROF ASLAM FATAAR

EDUCATION:

BA 1986, HDE 1987, BA Hon 1990, MA 1992, P.HD November 1999 (UWC)

P.HD Thesis:

Education policy development in South Africa, 1994-1997 (2000)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

  • Teacher: Lotus Senior Secondary School (1988 - 1993)
  • Lecturer: University of the Western Cape (1994 - 1999)
  • Senior Lecturer (2000 – 2002)
  • Associate Professor (2003 -2007)
  • Professor, 2008
  • CURRENT: Appointed as Full ProfessorStellenbosch University, 1 July 2009.

UNIVERSITY AND FACULTY ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEES:

  • Research Committee
  • Higher Degrees Committee
  • Undergraduate Committee (chair)
  • Post Graduate Certificate in Education (coordinator)
  • Faculty Appointments Committee
  • Faculty Restructuring Committee (convenor)
  • University Senate, University International Relations Committee (1996-1997),
  • UWC’s Institutional forum (chair, 2004-2004)
  • Member, UWC’s Senate
  • member, UWC’s Senate and Scholarship Committee
  • UCT - Council member, 2003 - 2006
  • UWC Council member, 2008 / 2009
  • Stellenbosch University Senate

FORMER MANAGEMENT POSITION IN FACULTY of Education

Research Development Director, 2002 – 2008, UWC

Deputy Dean, Faculty of Education –July 2008 – June 2009, UWC

Current Management Position:

Head of Dept: – Education Policy Studies Dept, Stellenbosch University

COURSES TAUGHT:

6 M.Ed courses, 6 B.Ed Honours courses, 6 HDE courses, 5 undergraduate courses

Supervisions completed: 15 Masters and 5 P.HD students

Supervisions current: 3 Phd and 8 Masters students

NOTABLE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION WORK

Published articles in newspapers, numerous radio and two TV programmes, run many workshops and seminars with teachers and teacher educators, organised two conferences, participation in HSRC school needs survey, coordinated international visits, research evaluation work for the Tokyo Foundation, did 10 web cast lecturing sessions to universities in the USA, gave a full M.Ed courses over the web to students at Ohio University, participated in a white paper drafting group on Educator development and Support,

CONFERENCES:

70 conferences nationally, regionally and internationally, read papers at most

PUBLICATIONS:

1, book, 50 refereed journal articles, 6 papers in conference proceedings, 6 other scholarly publications, 2 book articles, numerous newspaper articles, 4 monograph papers, 2 interactive readers, 2 book co-editorships, edited 3 journal volumes, 1 forthcoming book – November 2010, 1 impending book – June 2001, Journal editor – Southern African Review of Education

CURRENT EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL: SOUTHERN AFRICAN REVIEW OF EDUCATION

Selected publications

BOOK:2011: Educational Development in South Africa’s Democratic Transition, 1994-1997. (Sun Media: Cape Town).

  • 2010, Fataar, A and Bangstad, S. Ambiguous Accommodations: Cape Muslim political discourses in the post-apartheid period, Journal of Southern African Studies
  • 2010) Student being and becoming at the university: A perspective from the Sociology of Teacher Education, South African Journal of Higher Education, 24
  • (2009) Schooling subjectivities across the post-apartheid city, in African Education Review
  • (2008) An analysis of the reflexive adaptations of school principals in a ‘local’ South African space, International Journal of Inclusive Education
  • (2008),The politics of education policy reform in post apartheid South Africa: constraints and possibilities; Chapter in book on Globalisation, culture and education, edited by Guofang Wang from Ohio University.
  • In press, (July 2007), Educational renovation in a ‘township on the move’: a Socio- Spatial analysis, International Journal of Education Development.
  • (2007), Identity formation and communal negotiation in a ‘bounded’ geographic space: The formative discourses of Muslim teachers in apartheid Cape Town, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.
  • (2006, Dec), Policy networks in recalibrated discursive terrain: School curriculum policy and politics in South Africa, Journal of Education Policy Vol 21, no.6: 641-659.
  • (2005), “Discourse, Differentiation and Agency: Muslim Community Schooling in Post-Apartheid Cape Town.” Comparative Education Review, 49, no.1: 23-44.
  • (2005) “Negotiating student identity in the proposal development process: A personal reflective account,” In Journal of Education, Vol 36, No1: 36-58.
  • (2003) with Alan Wieder, “Education, Radical Politics and Modernity in southern Africa: The Teaching Life of Ali Fataar”, In Southern African Review of Education, Vol 8.
  • (2004) “Access to schooling in South Africa: Downscaling of a development vision” In African Journal of Studies in Education, Vol. 20: 2-13.
  • (2003) “Higher Education policy in South Africa: a struggle for alignment with macro development policy.” In South African Journal of Higher Education, vol 17, no.4,
  • (2003) with Andrew Paterson. “The culture of learning and teaching: Teachers, moral agency and the reconstruction of schooling in South Africa”. In Education and Society, Vol 20 No 3

ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONAL MEMBERSHIP:

  • Kenton Academic Association, Executive member
  • Education Association of South Africa, executive member
  • South African Comparative and History of Education Society, executive member
  • South African Review of Education – Editor – in - Chief
  • Southern African Education and Training Journal (Internet): editorial member (1996-1998) Board member,
  • Teach Africa Project, Education Faculty, UWC Board member
  • Institute for the African Child, Ohio University, Athens (Ohio),
  • Editorial Board – African Review of Education, South African Journal of Higher Education

AWARDS:

  • Pennstate Share Fellowship: 4 months academic development award taken up at The Pennsylvania State University (September - December 1996)
  • Sasakawa Leadership award for outstanding young leaders in South

Africa, 1997-1999; **Putnam Visiting Professorship to Ohio University, 1999

  • Research evaluation committee member, Tokyo Foundation, 2001 -2002
  • Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, Illinois University, Sept 2005 – May 2006

Editor-in-Chief: Southern African Review of Education

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