PUBLICATIONS (34 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.
2. B van Wyk 2006. Exploring constitutive meanings of educational transformation in South Africa. Interchange, 37(3): 181-199.
3. 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.
3. B van Wyk & P Higgs 2004. Towards an African philosophy of higher education. South African Journal of Higher Education, 18(3): 196-210.
4. 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. Acta Academica, 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: African Journal 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, 26(6): 1170-1181.
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, 146-154.
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).
3. 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.
BOOKS (1)
B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill (Eds.) 2014. Indigenous Concepts of Education: Toward Elevating Humanity for All Learners. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
BOOK CHAPTERS (12 in total: 7 international, 5 national)
International (7)
1. 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 on Lifelong Learning. 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. A Dodge & B van Wyk. 2013. The Courageous Conversations Project: Interrogating Perspectives and Perceptions of Race, Poverty and Schooling in South Africa and the United States. In: Ira Bogotch & Carolyn Shields (Eds.), International Handbook on Social (In)Justice and Educational Leadership. Springer: ??, 643-665.
5. B van Wyk. 2012. Race, (Re)Segregation and Schools: lessons from democratic South Africa.In: Judith Brooks-Buck & and Carol Camp Yeakey (Eds.), Being on the Wrong Side of History. Critical Readings on Re-segregation and Race in 21st Century America (forthcoming).
6. B van Wyk 2014. The Khoisan indigenous educational system and the construction of modern Khoisan identities. In: B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill (Eds.) 2014. Indigenous Concepts of Education: Toward Elevating Humanity for All Learners. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 17-30.
7. B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill 2014. Introduction. In: B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill (Eds.) Indigenous Concepts of Education: Toward Elevating Humanity for All Learners. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-14.
National (5)
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.
5. A Fataar, J Heystek, B van Wyk & A Badroodien 2012. Introduction. In: A Fataar (Ed.), Debating Thesis Supervision. Perspectives from a university education department. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (55 in total: 23 international, 32 national)
International (22)
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. Paper presented 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.
4. 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.
5. B van 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. Political consciousness 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.
13. 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.
15. 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, 30 Apr-4 May.
16. 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.
20. B van Wyk 2012. Reconstruction of knowledge through science education: arguing for African community- based research. 30th International Conference of Psychology (ICP), Cape Town, 22-27 July.
21. B van Wyk 2013. Exploring the role of education in poverty reduction and multicultural contexts: Caribbean perspectives (Discussant). American Educational Research Association (AERA), Caribbean and African Studies in Education SIG, San Francisco, USA, 27 April-1 May.
22. B van Wyk 2014. A Critical hermeneutical perspective of institutional culture of higher education. INPE 14th Biennial Conference, Cosenza, Italy. 20-13 August 2014.
23. B van Wyk 2015. Equity Pedagogies and Research Methodologies of Hope. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Presidential Session, Invited Session. Chicago, Illinois, 13 -17 April.
National (32)
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.
4. 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.
5. B van Wyk 2003. Citizenship: a logically necessary condition of educational transformation. Education Students’ Third Regional Conference. University of Cape Town. 26-27 September.
6. 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.
9. 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.
10. B van Wyk 2004. Rethinking philosophy of higher education. Kenton Education Association, Didima Conference Centre, Cathedral Peak, 30 September - 3 October.
11. B van Wyk 2005. Institutional culture for effective education. EASA Conference. North-West University, Potchefstroom, 12-14 Jan.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.