Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Faculty Member, Education: Research and Engagement

Professor, Research and Engagement

About

I am Professor of Research and Engagement in the Faculty of Education at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa, and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculties of Education at the Universities of British Columbia in Vancouver, and Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada.

I am also a Faculty Associate of the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education at The University of British Columbia. Previously, I was a two-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Alberta. Other recent assignments have included a conjoint Senior Lecturership at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, consulting in the College of Education at the University of Qatar, Doha, and a postdoctoral scholarship with the Imaginative Education Research Group at Simon Fraser University.

I completed my Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies and Mathematics Education at the University of British Columbia. My doctoral work is a critical exploration of the construction of disadvantage in school mathematics in social context. For my dissertation, Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa, I was honoured with the 2006 Illinois Distinguished Qualitative Dissertation Award [International Centre of Qualitative Research]; the 2006 American Educational Research Association Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Curriculum Studies Division; the 2005 Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award; and the 2005 Ted T. Aoki Prize for the most Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Curriculum Studies, UBC.

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