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CURRICULUMVITAE

VAN WYK, BERTE

Education Policy Studies

Faculty of Education

Stellenbosch University

Private Bag X1

Matieland 7602

Tel.+27 21808-2296/2419

Fax.+27 21 808-2283

Cell.+27 83715-7476

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QUALIFICATIONS

PhD (Education Policy Studies, Stellenbosch University), 2004

MEd (University of the Western Cape (UWC)), 1998

BEd (Unisa), 1995

HDE (UWC), 1990

BSc (UWC), 1988

WORK EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University, 1 July 2011 (current)

Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University, July 2007 – June 2011

Lecturer, Education Policy Studies, Stellenbosch University, April 2004 - 2007

Junior Lecturer, Education Policy Studies, Stellenbosch University, 2004

Part-time Research Assistant, Education Policy Studies, Stellenbosch University, 2003

Campus Coordinator, UWC, 1996-99

International Relations Officer, UWC, 1995-96

TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES

I teach Philosophy of Education at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels: BEd II (coordinator), PGCE (coordinator), ACE, BEd Hons (coordinator), and MEd (Coursework coordinator). From 2004-2007 I taught and coordinated Education Policy Studies at BEd Hons level.

PUBLICATIONS(30 in total)

ARTICLES IN ACCREDITED ACADEMIC JOURNALS

(18 in total: 3 international, 15 national)

International(3)

1.B van Wyk 2003. Exploring the notion of educational transformation: in search of

constitutive meanings. International Journal of Special Education, 18(2): 1-18.

  1. B van Wyk 2006. Exploring constitutive meanings of educational transformation in South Africa. Interchange, 37(3): 181-199.
  2. B van Wyk & P Higgs 2007. The call for an African university: a critical reflection. Higher Education Policy, 20(1): 61-71.

National(15)

  1. B van Wyk 2003. Educational Transformation: Re-imagining Higher Education.

South African Journal of Higher Education, 17(3): 152-157.

2.B van Wyk 2004. An analysis of transformation at three South African universities. Education as Change, 8(1): 164-186.

  1. B van Wyk & P Higgs 2004. Towards an African philosophy of higher education. South African Journal of Higher Education, 18(3): 196-210.
  2. B van Wyk 2005. Performativity in higher education transformation in South Africa.South

African Journal of Higher Education, 19(1): 5-19.

5.B van Wyk 2005. Higher education and the market: influence and responses.ActaAcademica, 37(3): 41-64.

6.B van Wyk 2006. Teacher education for democracy and social justice: a reply to Harley and Parker.South African Journal of Higher Education, 20(6): 879-887.

7.P Higgs & B van Wyk 2007. Lifelong learning revisited: an African educational discourse. Education as Change, 11(1): 111-123.

8.P Higgs & B van Wyk 2007. African philosophy and knowledge production in higher education. Journal of Educational Studies, 6(2): 179-188.

9.P Higgs & B van Wyk 2007. The transformation of university teaching and learning: An African philosophical perspective. Indilinga: AfricanJournal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 6(2): 177-187.

10.B van Wyk 2008. Learning and an African lifeworld in (higher) education. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 7(2): 171-182.

11.B van Wyk 2009. The (South-African) university and political consciousness. Journal of Educational Studies, 8(4):118-129.

12.B van Wyk 2010. The affirmative action debate: A critical reflection. South African Journal of Higher Education, 24(2): 358-366.

13.P Higgs, L van Niekerk & B van Wyk 2010. The role of community in curriculum development for open and distance learning in an African context. Progressio: South African Journal for Open and Distance Learning Practice, 32(2): 134-144.

14.B van Wyk & P Higgs. 2011. The curriculum in an African context. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 10(2): 171-181.

15.B van Wyk & A Jacobs. 2012. Cultural change and the emergence of the knowledge-driven economy. South African Journal of Higher Education (forthcoming).

Articles under review (1)

1. B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill. Community, Schools and Society: an analysis of curriculum conflict and resolution through South Africa and United States perspectives. International Review of Education (submitted December 2011).

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS(3)

  1. B van Wyk 2009. Universities as Institutions or Organisations: Culture and one University. London International Conference on Education (LICE-2009), ISBN 978-0-9564263-0-7, London, 9-12 Nov.
  2. B van Wyk 2010.Learner Diversity and Learning: a Perspective from South Africa.

Procedia Social and Behavioural Sciences 7(C)(2010) 247-253. International Conference on Learner Diversity (ICELD).

  1. B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill 2011. Community, Schools and Society: An analysis of curriculum conflict and resolution through South Africa and United States perspectives.

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education (ICE), Vol B, 135-139 (ISBN 978-960-466-080-3). Research and Training Institute of East Aegean (INEAG), Samos Island, Greece, 7-9 July 2011.

BOOK CHAPTERS (9 in total: 5 international, 4 national)

International (5)

1.P Higgs & B van Wyk 2006. University teaching in South Africa: An African Philosophical Perspective.In: C Kreber (Ed.), International Policy Perspectives on Improving Learning with Limited Resources. New Directions for Higher Education Series, no. 133. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass, 81-90 (on invitation).

2.P Higgs & B van Wyk 2007. An African discourse on lifelong learning: a South African

case study. In: DN Aspin(Ed.), Philosophical Perspectives onLifelongLearning. Lifelong Learning Book Series, Vol 11. Springer Press, Netherlands, 148-157(on invitation).

3.B van Wyk & P Higgs 2012. The Future of University Research in Africa. In: R Barnett (Ed.), The Future University.New York: Routledge, 178-186 (on invitation).

4. B van Wyk. 2012. Race, (Re)Segregation and Schools: lessons from democratic South Africa.In: Being on the Wrong Side of History. Critical Readings on Re-segregation and Race in 21st Century America. Eds. Judith Brooks-Buck & and Carol Camp Yeakey (forthcoming).

5.A Dodge & B van Wyk. 2012. The Courageous Conversations Project: Interrogating Perspectives and Perceptions of Race, Poverty and Schooling in South Africa and the United States. In: International Handbook on Social (In)Justice and Educational Leadership. Eds. Ira Bogotch & Carolyn Shields (forthcoming).

National (4)

1.B van Wyk 2004. Reconstructing (higher) educational transformation through citizenship. In: Y Waghid & LL le Grange (Eds.), Imaginaries on democratic education and change. Pretoria: SAARDHE, 147-155.

2.B van Wyk 2005. Higher education transformation in the Western Cape: On the transformative potential of ubuntu and communitarianism. In: Y Waghid (Ed.), B van Wyk (Assoc. Ed.) & F Adams & I November (Contributing Eds.), African(a) Philosophy of Education: Reconstructions and Deconstructions. Stellenbosch: Department of Education Policy Studies, 100-112.

3.B van Wyk 2005. Hermeneutics and the idea of an African lifeworld. In: Y Waghid (Ed.), B van Wyk (Assoc Ed.) & F Adams & I November (Contributing Eds.), African(a) philosophy of Education: Reconstructions and Deconstructions. Stellenbosch: Department of Education Policy Studies, 86-99.

4.B van Wyk 2009. Universities as organisations or institutions?: the culture debate and one institution. In: E Bitzer (Ed.), Higher Education in South Africa: A scholarly look behind the scenes. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA, 331-347.

NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION (NRF) RATING

C3 – rating(2011-2016)

(Also acts as reviewer for rating and funding proposals).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS(47 in total: 19 international, 28 national)

International (19)

  1. B van Wyk 2004. Educational transformation: towards re-imagining higher education.

International Network of Philosophers of Education (INPE). Ninth Biennial Conference. Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 4-7 August.

2.B van Wyk 2005. Hermeneutics and the idea of an African lifeworld. Paperpresented at the International Symposium on African Philosophy of Education organised by the German International Institute for Educational Research, Frankfurt, Germany, 29-30 August.

3.B van Wyk 2005. The state of education in South Africa: critical reflections. Roundtable discussion at the International Symposium on African Philosophy of Education organised by the German International Institute for Educational Research, Frankfurt. 29-30 August.

1.B van Wyk & P Higgs 2005. African philosophy and knowledge production in higher education. Joint Conference of the South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education and The Productive Learning Cultures Project, University of Bergen, Norway. Scandic Hotel, Bergen City. Knowledge production and higher education in the 21st Century, 31 August-2 September.

2.Bvan Wyk 2006. Knowledge construction and an African lifeworld. 10th International Network of Philosophers of Education (INPE). University of Malta, Malta. 3-6 August.

6.B van Wyk 2007. The university and political consciousness. American Educational Research Association. Philosophical Studies Special Interest Group. Chicago, USA. 9-13 April.

7. P Higgs & B van Wyk 2008. The Curriculum in an African Context: A Critical Reflection. Comparative & International Education Society (CIES). New York, 17-21 March.

8.B van Wyk 2008. Exploring constitutive meanings of institutional culture: a South-African case study. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philosophical Studies Special Interest Group. New York, 21-25 March.

9.B van Wyk 2008. Discourses on institutional culture in higher education in South Africa. 11th International Network of Philosophers of Education (INPE).Kyoto University, Japan, 8-11 August.

10.B van Wyk 2009. Politicalconsciousness and democratic citizenship in South Africa.American Educational Research Association. Special Interest Group: Democratic Citizenship in Education. San Diego, USA. 13-17 April.

11. Waghid Y, P Beets, B van Wyk, C Reddy & L le Grange 2009. Africanisation and Curriculum Change(s) in South Africa: Exploring Education for Social Justice. IAACS 2009 International Conference, Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset West, 6-10 Sept.

12.B van Wyk 2009. Universities as Institutions or Organisations: Culture and one University.

London International Conference of Education (LICE-2009), London, 9-12 Nov.

16.B van Wyk 2010. Reconceptualising Teacher Education in South Arica: Democracy, Knowledge and Social Justice. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Critical Educators for Social Justice Studies Special Interest Group. Denver, Colorado, 30

Apr-4 May.

14.B van Wyk 2010. The role of education in building capacity across diverse populations in

complex political ecologies: A South-African perspective. American Educational Research

Association (AERA), Presidential Session, Invited Session.Denver, Colorado, 30 Apr-4

May.

  1. Waghid Y, LL le Grange, PAD Beets, B van Wyk 2010.Ubuntu and the

Reconceptualisation of a South African Teacher Education Program. American

Educational Research Association (AERA), Div Teaching and Teacher Education.

Denver,Colorado, 30Apr-4 May.

  1. B van Wyk 2010. Learner diversity and learning: a perspective from South Africa.

International Conference on Learner Diversity (ICELD). Selangor,Malaysia,17-20 Oct.

17.B van Wyk 2011.The African concept of ubuntu, education and society: A South African perspective. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Caribbean and African Studies in Education SIG New Orleans, USA, 8-12 April.

18. B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill. 2011.Community, schools and society: an analysis of curriculum conflict and resolutions – through South Africa and United States perspectives. International Conference on Education (ICE), Research and Training Institute of East Aegean, Greece. Samos Island, Greece, 7-9 July.

19.D Adeniji-Neill & B van Wyk 2012. To Know Is Not Enough”: Diaspora Fathers’ Conduct of Fatherhood, Teaching, and Learning With Their Children in a new World. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Caribbean and African Studies in Education SIG Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 13-17 April.

National (28)

  1. B van Wyk 2002. A Conceptual Analysis at three South African universities in relation to the National Plan for Higher Education. 2nd Education Research Conference, University of Cape Town, 27-28 September.
  2. B van Wyk 2002. A Conceptual Analysis of Transformation at three South African universities in relation to the National Plan for Higher Education. Education Faculty Colloquium for Post-graduate Students. Stellenbosch University, 1 November.
  3. B van Wyk 2003. Educational Transformation in a Deliberative Democratic Framework.

Conference of the Education Association of South Africa (EASA), Stellenbosch University, 14-16 January.

  1. B van Wyk 2003. Educational Transformation: Re-imagining Higher Education. 13th Biennial Conference of the South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education, Stellenbosch University. 25-27 June.
  2. B van Wyk 2003. Citizenship: a logically necessary condition of educational transformation. Education Students’ Third Regional Conference. University of Cape Town. 26-27 September.
  3. B van Wyk 2003. Educational Transformation: Revisiting Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics. Joint Kenton/SACHES Conference, Goudini Spa, Worcester. 30 Oct-2 Nov.

7.B van Wyk 2004. Educational Transformation: A Philosophical Perspective. EASA Conference, Rand Afrikaans University. 13-15 January.

8.B van Wyk 2004. A Conceptual Analysis of Transformation at three South African universities in relation to the National Plan for Higher Education. Education Faculty, University of Stellenbosch. Colloquium for Post-graduate Students. 26 March.

  1. B van Wyk & P Higgs 2004. Towards an African philosophy of higher education. Joint Conference of the South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education and the Productive Learning Cultures Project (University of Bergen, Norway), Durban. 10-12 June.
  2. B van Wyk 2004. Rethinking philosophy of higher education. Kenton Education Association, Didima Conference Centre, Cathedral Peak, 30 September - 3 October.
  3. B van Wyk 2005. Institutional culture for effective education. EASA Conference. North-West University, Potchefstroom, 12-14 Jan.
  4. B van Wyk & P Higgs 2005. The call for an African university: a critical reflection. South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education conference: The African University in the 21st Century. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. 27-29 June.
  5. B van Wyk 2005. Research panelist with S Pendlebury & M Abrahams (on invitation). Pitfalls in graduate research. Fifth Education Students’ Regional Research Conference, Stellenbosch University, 30 Sept-1 Oct.
  6. B van Wyk 2005. Exploring constitutive meanings of institutional culture. Kenton Education Association, Mpekweni Sun, (In)equality, democracy and quality. 27-30 Oct.

15.B van Wyk 2006. Higher education and an African lifeworld. EASA Conference, Ilanga Estate, Bloemfontein. 18-20 Jan.

16.B van Wyk 2006. Response to K Harley: Teacher education in South Africa: social change, quality assurance, and democracy. Symposium: Higher Education quality assurance in South Africa: Widens democracy or not? Education Faculty, Stellenbosch University. 10 Aug.

17.B van Wyk & P Higgs 2006. The curriculum revisited: An African discourse. EASA/Kenton International Conference. Protea Wilderness Resort, Wilderness, South Africa. 28 Nov-1 Dec.

18. B van Wyk, Y Waghid, L le Grange & P Beets 2006. Symposium: African(a) Philosophy of Education: Reconstructions and Deconstructions. EASA/Kenton International Conference. Protea Wilderness Resort, Wilderness, South Africa. 28 Nov-1 Dec.

19.B van Wyk 2007. Effective outcomes based training for teachers -Leadership and organisational development. Education in Southern Africa Summit. BMW Pavilion, Cape Town. 5-9 March (on invitation).

20. B van Wyk 2007. Knowledge and higher education: a critical reflection(keynote address). First Education Students’ Research Conference, University of the Free State, 22 Sept (on invitation).

21. B van Wyk 2008. Knowledge, democracy and social justice: a critical reflection. Education Association of South Africa (EASA), Club Mykonos, Langebaan, 8-11 January.

22.B van Wyk & LL le Grange 2008. Wittgenstein and social justice (symposium). Education Association of South Africa (EASA), Club Mykonos, Langebaan, 8-11 January.

23. B van Wyk & P Higgs 2008. The curriculum in an African context: a critical reflection. 2nd

African Conference on Curriculum Development in Higher Education, Willow Park Conference Centre, Bredell, Gauteng, 16-18 Sep.

24. B van Wyk 2009. Moving beyond performativity: cultivating imagination and creativity. Kenton Conference, Protea Hotel, Techno Park, Stellenbosch, 5-8 Nov.

25. Y Waghid, B van Wyk, L le Grange 2009. Performativity and Education: Taking a Post-Structuralist Turn (symposium). Kenton Conference, Protea Hotel, Techno Park, Stellenbosch, 5-8 Nov.

26. Y Waghid, C Reddy, B van Wyk, P Beets, L le Grange 2010.Education as an inconsistent initiation into practices: In conversation with Derrida and Deleuze (symposium). EASA Conference, Quest Conference Centre, Vanderbijlpark, 12-14 Jan.

27. Bvan Wyk & A Jacobs. 2011. Cultural change and the emergence of the knowledge-driven economy. “Knowledge production and Higher Education in the 21st Century” – Knowledge 2011. V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, 28-31 March.

28. B van Wyk. 2011. Bauman’s idea of the liquid world: implications for higher education. Kenton Conference. Cape Town, 3-6 Nov.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

PhD (1 completed, 2 current)

2012Anthea Jacobs, promoter. A critical-hermeneutical inquiry of institutional culture in higher education (current).

2012Nolitha Vukuza-Linda, promoter. Higher education mergers and the reshaping of institutional cultures: a case study of a South African University of Technology (current).

2010Cecil J Beukes, promoter. A critical-hermeneutical inquiry of schools as learning organisations(completed).

MEd / MPhil (6 completed, 4 current)

2012Z Waghid. MED, co-supervisor.

2012DM Lapperts. MEd, supervisor. Forms of discipline practiced at two rural schools (completed).

2012C Daniels. MEd, supervisor. An analysis of policies and strategies to reduce poverty (completed).

2009F Frolicks. MEd, supervisor. Die opvoeder as leermediator en die haalbaarheid van die nodige kompetensies soos omskryf in die Norme en Standaarde vir Opvoeders (completed).

2009NM Ramovha. MPhil, supervisor. Leadership and productive school culture at selected secondary schools in Limpopo province (completed).

2009 AHM Jacobs. MEd, supervisor. A critical inquiry of a literacy policy in the Western Cape province (completed).

2005M Marthinus. MEd, co-supervisor. Morele opvoeding aan leerders binne die konteks van plekke van veiligheid in Wes-Kaapland (completed).

EXAMINER: THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

External (14)

2005Ntombekaya Adelaide Lubisi, MEd. An investigation into the implementation of the National Policy on HIV/Aids for learners and educators in public schools, and students and educators in further education and training institutions in Mangaung secondary schools in the Motheo District, Free State Province. University of the Free State (UFS).

2006MMB Ramakau, MEd. The implementation of the Lesotho Service Regulations 2002 according to the Lesotho education Act No. 10 of 1995 in high schools in the Maseru district of Lesotho. University of the Free State.

2006MF Letsoela, MEd. An analysis of the criteria for the appointment of English language examiners in Lesotho. University of the Free State.

2007BPF Bruintjies, MTech. Coping strategies of new school principals. Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

2007ML Gomes, MEd. Die ontwikkeling van kriteria waarmee sosiale wetenskappe-onderrigmateriaal (Graad Sewe) opgestel kan word om te verseker dat selfgerigte leer bevorder word. Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

2007MME Maneyli, MEd. Teacher professionalism: the role of Lesotho education policies. University of the Free State.

2008MH Damons, MEd. The performance of female principals in the management of selected secondary schools in the Gauteng Province. University of Johannesburg.

2008N Mnguni. MEd. The influence of institutional culture at a changing university through the lens of institutional documents: a case study of the University of Cape Town. University of the Western Cape.

2008MD Martin, MTech. Die probleme wat vroue in landelike gebiede ervaar wanneer hulle as skoolhoofde waarneem. CPUT.

2009 K Pillay, PhD. The idea of a university in South Africa. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Feb 2009.

2009DJ Faroo, DEd. Curriculum delivery in multi-grade rural schools in the Breede River/Overberg EMDC. CPUT, Aug 2009.

2010TV Tlali, PhD. Africanisation and Globalisation: implications for education policy reform in Lesotho. UFS, July 2010.

2010D-O Benedicta O,MEd. Exploring capabilities of learners in a quintile 1 school in Metro central of Cape Town. University of the Western Cape, July 2010.

2011JC Compion, PhD. A strategy for a mini-education system to support transformational development in a developing community. North-West University, Sept 2011.