Author Biography
Stephanie Matseleng Allais (PhD) is currently working for the International Labour Organization, conducting research into National Qualifications Frameworks. Prior to this, she was the Director: Research and Development, for Umalusi, the South African body responsible for quality in primary and secondary education. She has broad experience in education in South Africa, as a teacher, trainer, activist, union educator, and researcher. David Bensusan is a lecturer in the Wits School of Education. He is a political philosopher and a film producer. More recently he completed his LLB studies and is registered as an advocate at the high court. His current research interests include pedagogy, ethics and educational law. Wayne Hugo (PhD) currently heads the school of education and development at the University of Kwazulu-Natal. His research interests revolve around developing more nuanced pedagogic languages of description and utilising these to understand and respond to issues of inequality within a developing context. Lesley Le Grange is professor and Vice-Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. Lesley teaches and researches in the fields of environmental education, research methodology, science education, curriculum and assessment. He has more than 120 publications to his credit and serves on editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals. Heila Lotz-Sisitka holds a Chair in Environmental Education and Sustainability Education at Rhodes University. Her research interests include new social movement theory and pedagogy, with specific reference to environment and sustainability education contributions to social and educational transformations. Shirley Pendlebury is a professor of education and the Director of the Children's Institute at the University of Cape Town. Within the broad domain of philosophy of education and cross-disciplinary studies, her research interests include teaching and teacher education; social justice, human rights and participation; and epistemological issues in curriculum and childhood studies. Lee Rusznyak (PhD) has lectured in physics, geography and methodology at the School of Education and currently coordinates the Teaching Experience programme, University of the Witwatersrand. Yael Shalem is an associate professor of education, Wits School of Education. Her research interests include teachers' work, curriculum, teaching and assessment, and teacher education. Lynne Slonimsky lectures in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Her work on authority and authoring is part of a larger project on learning, teaching and curriculum in the context of a society in the process of transformation from an authoritarian to a democratic society. Yusef Waghid is professor of philosophy of education and Dean of the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. His research focuses on ethics and education.
