BOTHA, JOHAN Dr Johan Botha is a senior lecturer at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa, in the Faculty of Education Sciences (School of Education). Johan is responsible for teaching-learning Life Orientation and Learner Support in teachers training. His main research focus is: Aggression in post-conflict societies as well as Research Methodology. His aim is to create a research culture with specific interest in Research Methodology amongst his students. Johan has also published a book, The experiences of SA secondary school male educators own aggression, with VDM Verlag Publishers in Saarbrücken, September 2008. He has presented several peer reviewed papers at national and international conferences. BECKER, ANNE After completing BMUS and a Teacher diploma at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). She completed her BEd and MEd at UNISA and taught for 10 years at the Pro-Arte school of Arts and started her own music studio and dedicated more time to community projects. Through teaching and community involvement she has met many wonderful people who taught her that a dignified life concerns compassionate responsibility towards others. They have sparked her own dialogic revolution, continually questioning her understanding of human life, society, human rights and education. She is currently a PhD student and a member of SANPAD researching Human Rights Education in Diverse Contexts. Her fields of interest and research are identity, curriculum and human rights. DE WET, ANNAMAGRIET Dr Annamagriet de Wet was from 2004-2009 a lecturer in Education Law in the Faculty of Education Sciences at the North-West University. Since 2010 she is post-doctoral fellow in the funded projects on Human Rights Education in Diversity. Annamagriet focuses on issues of gender-equity in education and has done research on sexual harassment of learners in secondary schools (PhD study), gender violence against girls in secondary schools (UNESCO-funded project) and the experiences of female school principals in South Africa (Commonwealthproject in association with Southampton University). Her publications include articles in peer-reviewed journals, papers at conferences; publications and chapters in books peer-reviewed). Her qualifications include: BCom; HED (cum laude); BEd (cum laude); MEd (cum laude) and PhD. DU PREEZ, PETRO Prof. Petro du Preez is an Associate Professor in Curriculum Studies at the North- West University (Potchefstroom Campus). She was subject chair of Curriculum Studies and is at present the Program Manager of the PhD and MEd-programs. In 2006 she received a DAAD scholarship to study in Hamburg, Germany. She obtained her PhD from the University of Stellenbosch in 2008. Her research foci 269
includes: Curriculum Studies and Human Rights for diverse education environments. Petro s research involvement includes national and international projects and publications all peer reviewed and published in most international publications on invitation. She has delivered several papers and published widely on the topics of human rights for multicultural and multireligious curriculum environments. She currently supervises 5 Masters students and 2 PhD students in Curriculum Studies for diverse contexts. She was a founder member of the HREiD research group since 2007. FERGUSON, RENÉ Dr. René Ferguson is a lecturer and researcher in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She obtained her PhD in 2011 from the University of Stellenbosch and is since 2004 part of the HREiD-research group. René teaches Religion education, Human rights and democratic citizenship education to primary, secondary and post-graduate certificate teacher education students at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). Her research interests focus on teacher development for diversity, democracy and human rights education. She has delivered peer-reviewed papers at national and international conferences and published articles and an international book chapter on invitation. GALLOWAY, GRETA Dr Greta Galloway is currently the Head of School, School for General and Continuing Education (Pre-service, In-service and Postgraduate studies) at the University of Fort Hare (East London Campus). She obtained the PhD in 2007 from the University of Stellenbosch in Philosophy in Education. Greta is a member of the HREiD-Research group since 2009. She has delivered peer reviewed papers at national and international conferences and was part of an International exchange programme (2009) Linnaeus Palme International Exchange Lecturing Programme, International exchange between UFH in South Africa and Umeå University in Sweden. Her areas of specialization include Curriculum studies: Foundation phase subjects (Numeracy, Literacy, Life Skills), School leadership, management and governance (School leadership and management, Democratic citizenship education/human rights education). GEARON, LIAM Dr Liam Gearon holds a University Lectureship in Religious Education at the Oxford University Department of Education in association with a Senior Research Fellowship at Harris Manchester College. Immediately before Oxford, he was Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Plymouth. He was appointed in 2005 as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, for contribution to teaching and learning across a range of contexts. With a background in the study of religion and literature, he is widely published in religious education as well as citizenship. Recent major publications include the co-authored Arthur (UK), Gearon (UK), and Sears (Canada) (2010) Education, Politics and Religion: 270
Reconciling the Civil and the Sacred in Education (London and New York: Routledge) and the co-edited Engebretson (Australia), De Souza (Australia), Durka (USA), and Gearon (UK) (2010) International Handbook for Inter-Religious Education (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer). He is also editor of the Religious Education Handbook, an online resource for teachers funded by the DCSF and the Religious Education Council of England and Wales (www.re-handbook.org.uk). He is presently a recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2011-2012) for research on Writers and their Dictators. Liam is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. KEET, ANDRÉ Prof André Keet tutored in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Cape where he completed his Masters Degree in Education (Cum Laude) in 1995. In 1997 and 1998 he completed courses in human rights in Uganda and Denmark. A PhD degree from the University of Pretoria was conferred on him in April 2007. André joined the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in 1996 and was appointed as Director of the National Centre for Human Education and Training (NACHRET) of the SAHRC in 2000. He was a member of various academic and non-academic advisory structures related to human rights and social justice in education and headed the human rights and inclusivity task teams appointed by the Minister of Education from 2001 to 2003. André also served as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) of the South African Human Rights Commission and briefly functioned as a Commissioner on the Commission for Gender Equality. He joined the University of Fort Hare as the Director: Transdisciplinary Program in 2008. Since July 2011, André is based at the University of the Free State as the Director of the International Institute for the Studies in Race, Reconciliation and Social Justice. MOGADIME, DOLANA Prof. Dolana Mogadime, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University in St. Catharines Ontario, Canada. Currently, she teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in the Social Cultural Contexts of Education field of study, where she has served as Coordinator. She is an associate of the Brock University Women s Studies Center, and Past-President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education (CASWE). Dolana s research interests are in critical sociology of education, social justice, equity studies and feminist theories. She is interested in the connections between educators and school leaders lives and commitment toward developing equitable approaches to education. She has published her research in international journals such as Urban Education; The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations; Journal of Black Studies; Canadian Women s Studies; Canadian feminist anthologies as well as Canadian anthologies on Black feminisms. Dolana was born in Pretoria, South Africa and has led the North-West University/ Brock University Institutional Partnership; she was an extra-ordinary 271
associate professor of the Faculty of Education Sciences (2009-2011), North-West University, South Africa. PERUMAL, JULIET Prof Juliet Perumal is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research interests lie in the areas of critical feminist pedagogy; language and gender and curriculum leadership for social justice. Juliet has presented numerous national and international papers on gender and published widely in national and international peer-reviewed journals on gender and leadership. Her 2007, Peter Lang publication, Identity, Diversity and Teaching for Social Justice, captures a significant portion of her research interests. Juliet is also a National Research Fourdation (NRF) rated researcher. ROUX, CORNELIA Prof. Cornelia Roux is since 2010 the Research Director of the Focus Area of the Faculty of Education Sciences (Potchefstroom Campus) at the North-West University in South Africa. She was pervious a research professor at the NWU (2008-2009) and lecturer and professor in Curriculum Studies at the Faculty of Education, University of Stellenbosch (1991-2008). Her research focus is on Religion in Education, Human Rights Education in Diversity (Cultures, Religions, Beliefs and Value systems), Curriculum Theory and Development. Cornelia is a member of ASSAF (Association of Science of South Africa) and a National Research Fourdation (NRF) rated researcher. She is member of eight national and international professional associations. She has published widely in accredited journals, delivered papers and key notes at national and international conferences; contributed chapters to 12 academic books (10 international). She has been project leader of 14 national and international research projects. The results of completed research projects have been disseminated at 30 international and 28 national conferences and articles in peerreviewed journals. She is the founder of the HREiD research group established in 2007. SABELIS, IDA Dr Ida Sabelis is senior lecturer at the department Organization Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at VU University, Amsterdam. In the 1980s and 1990s she worked as an organizational consultant on the topic diversity in organizations. From the mid-1990s on, the perspective of time/s in organizations offered a conceptual framework further to theorize questions of inequality in organizations (gender, multiculturalism, and diversity) and of long-term development of organizations (sustainability, future/s, continuity and change). Through publications, congress organization and presentations, she established a position in the field of inter/national and interdisciplinary time studies, conceptually focusing on methodology and critical theory, and thematically on diversity (gender) and sustainability (future studies). Idae held guest professorships in France (Brest) and Germany (Leuphana University, Lüneburg). She is jointeditor in chief for the international journal Gender, Work and Organization. 272
SIMMONDS, SHAN Shan Simmonds is a lecturer in Curriculum Studies in the School of Education at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). She was the recipient of the Dean s Prestige Bursary for her MEd-studies and at present enrolled for her PhD and graduated of the SANPAD RCI 2010/2011 cohort. In 2012 she is a awardee of SAVUSA (South Africa Vrije University Strategic Alliance) bursary for further study at the Vrije University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include curriculum development, gender equity, human rights education, and religious and cultural studies. Shan s research involvement includes an international SANPAD project (2010-2013) and HREiD research group (since 2008). She has presented papers at national and international conferences and published in a peer-reviewed journal. TER AVEST, INA Dr. Ina ter Avest is research lecturer at the Inholland University of Applied Sciences, and lecturer at the VU University in Amsterdam. She has a background in psychology of religion. The focus in her research is on identity development of pupils and students, of teachers and of schools and educational institutes in a context characterized by diversity. Besides Ina s academic work one day a week is spent on consultancy work, mainly in primary education. Ina has published widely in journals and authored many books in her field of interest. TOPIDI, KYRIAKI Dr Kyriaki Topidi is a Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the School of Law of the University of Lucerne (Switzerland). She has undertaken extensive research on and participated in a number of research projects focusing on minority protection in Europe. She has published widely on this topic. Kyriaki has acted as an expert for the European Parliament on Roma issues and has participated in numerous conferences and networks. Her teaching is focused on Comparative Law and Human Rights. VANOBBERGEN, BRUNO Dr Bruno Vanobbergen received his PhD in Educational Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium). He published several national and international articles in journals and chapters in books on the history of childhood, focusing on processes of commodification, medicalization and educationalization. Since June 2009 Bruno is the Flemish Children s Rights Commissioner. He also guest professor of Childhood Studies at Ghent University. 273