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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Name Johan Pieter Muller Date & Place of Birth 9 October 1947, Matatiele South Africa Marital Status Single Home Address 4 Belmont Avenue Oranjezicht 8001 Postal Address School of Education University of Cape Town Private Bag Rondebosch 7700 Telephone No. Home (021) 461-4329 Office (021) 650-2778 Fax No. (021) 650-5751 Email [email protected] Professional Qualifications 1964 Matriculated at Kearsney College, South Africa (first class) 1968 Graduated Bachelor of Arts at the University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa (first class) 1969 Graduated Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Industrial Psychology cum laude at the University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa 1972 Graduated Master of Arts in Industrial Psychology cum laude at the University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa 1976 Graduated Doctorandus in Social Psychology and Philosophy of Social Science at the University of Leiden, Netherlands 1978 Registered as an Industrial Psychologist with the South African Medical and Dental Council 2002 Graduated PhD in Education at the University of Cape Town 2 Awards, Scholarships and Fellowships 1968 Ernest Oppenheimer Undergraduate Bursary 1968 University of Port Elizabeth, Faculty of Arts Award (best graduate) 1969 Ernest Oppenheimer Postgraduate Scholarship 1971 HSRC Postgraduate Bursary for Masters Degree Study 1976 Nederland - Zuid Afrika Vereeniging Scholarship for Postgraduate Study in the Netherlands 1984 HSRC Postgraduate Bursary for Post-masters Degree Study and Training in Research Overseas 1984 Anderson - Capelli Convocation Fund Award 1988 Finalist (with K. Tomaselli) for the AA Life Vita Award for Theatre Research 1990 United States Information Service International Visitorship 1993 HSRC Senior Research Grant 1994 Director d’Etudes Associe, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France Visiting Scholar, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic 1997 Visiting Fellow, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. Visiting Fellow, Institute of Education, University of London, U.K. 2001 Visiting Fellow, Rutgers University, USA. Visiting Research Associate, University of Newcastle, Australia. 2003 Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. 2004 Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education, Stanford University, USA. 2005 Erasmus Mundus Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Oslo, Norway 2006 Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) 2007/8 Visiting Fellow, Institute of Education, University of London, UK. 2009 Visiting Fellow, Council for Higher Education (CHE), Pretoria. 3 2009 Fellow, Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET), Cape Town 2009 – 2015 Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London, UK 2013 - 2016 Senior Research Fellow, Policy & Research, Higher Education South Africa (HESA), Pretoria. 2013 Distinguished Fellow Award, School of Critical Studies in Education (CRSTIE), The University of Auckland, New Zealand. 2013 Dyason Fellow, School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. 2015 – 2018 Senior Research Scholar, Research Office, University of Cape Town. Professional Experience 1974 Researcher in training and development, Anglo-American Corporation, Johannesburg 1975 Lecturer in Social and Industrial Psychology at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 1976 Researcher in intergroup relations at the Institute of Social Psychology, University of Utrecht, Netherlands 1977 Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of the North, Sovenga, South Africa 1979 Lecturer in Educational Theory and in the Sociology and Social Psychology of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 1984 (Spring Term) Visiting Assistant Professor teaching a course in Politics and Education at the University of Oregon, United States of America 1985 Senior lecturer in Educational Theory at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (advanced to the Special List in 1989) 1987 - 1990 Director of the Education Policy Unit University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 1990 Appointed Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Cape Town 1994 - 2001 Head of the School of Education, University of Cape Town 2004 – 2011 Deputy Dean for Research & Postgraduate Affairs, University of Cape Town 2013 - date Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town 4 2016 – 2018 Senior Research Scholar, Research Office, University of Cape Town Membership of Professional Associations Member of the Association of Sociologists of Southern Africa Member of the International Sociological Association Member of the Southern African Comparative and History Education Society Member of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS) Member of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) Member of the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) Membership of Professional Committees University of Cape Town (selective, last 10 years of fulltime employment) Faculty • Deputy Dean, and Director of the Graduate School of Humanities • Graduate Programmes Committee (chair) § Faculty Research Committee (chair) § Masters Dissertation Examination Committee (chair) • Doctoral Committee of Assessors (chair) • Faculty Executive Committee • Faculty Promotions Committee • Faculty Staffing Committee University • Academic Planning Framework Task Team (chair 2007) • Academic Freedom Committee (chair 2005 - 2007) 5 • Board for Graduate Studies • Doctoral Degrees Board (deputy chair) • Board member of the Maths and Science Education Project • UCT Press Editorial Board • Board member of the Gordon Institute for the Performing and Creative Arts • Board member of the Centre for Social Sciences Research • Board member of DataFirst Other (last 15 years) • Centre for Higher Education Transformation, Expertise Network Reference Group; member of HERANA/ NOMA. • Chair of the Assessment Panel for Political Sciences, Policy Studies and Philosophy of the National Research Foundation (NRF) (2003 – 2004); assessor of Assessment Panels (2006 - 2009). • Member of the Science and Technology Foundation: Educational Sciences Evaluation Panel, Portugal • External examiner for the University of Hong Kong Masters in Education programme • HESA representative on the Accreditation Committee: National Review of MEd Programmes, and member of the MEd Report Reference Group • Member of the Research Output Evaluation Panel of the Department of Education (now Department of Higher Education and Training): (2005 – 2013). • Member of the Academy of Sciences of Southern Africa (ASSaF) (from 2007). • Member of the Consensus Panel, Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa (CSPiSA), ASSAf. • Member of the Steering Group of the ESRC funded project, Pedagogic quality and inequality in university first degrees, Nottingham University, UK. 6 • Member of the International Review Panel, External HEQC Review, Council for Higher Education. • Member of the International Expert Group at the Yasar University International Strategy and Planning Conference, Izmir, Turkey, September 2010. • Member and deputy chair of the Post School System Task Team, Higher Education South Africa, 2010 - 11. • Member of the Education Reference Panel, National Planning Commission, 2011. • Chair of the ASSAf publication rating panel for education books, chapters and conference proceedings, 2015. • Adviser to the Higher Education Learning Outcomes Project, Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research & Education (NIFU), University of Oslo, Norway, 2015 – 2017. • Member of the Reference Group, Standards Development & National Reviews of Doctoral Education, Council on Higher Education (CHE) & National Research Foundation (NRF), 2017 – 2019. • Board of Researchers, Universities and Institutional Complexity Project, universities of Oslo, Ghent & the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. NRF Rating B1 Rated 279 (out of 2234) scholars in the Ranking of scientists working at SA institutions according to their Google Scholar public profiles (http: www.webometrics.info/en/node/145, as at 2nd week of May 2017) Monographs 1. Reclaiming Knowledge: Social Theory, Education Policy and Curriculum, RoutledgeFalmer, London, 2000. 2. (with Nick Taylor & Penny Vinjevold) Getting Schools Working: Research and Systemic School Reform in South Africa, Pearson Education South Africa, Cape Town, 2003. 3. (with Michael Young) Curriculum and the Specialisation of Knowledge: Studies in the Sociology of Knowledge, Routledge, London, 2016. ISBN: 9781138814929 7 Edited Books and Collections 1. (with K and R Tomaselli) The Press in South Africa, James Currey, London, 1987 2. (with N Cloete and L Callinicos) of a special issue of Critical Arts 4, 2, 1986, on ‘The Production of Popular Knowledge' 3. Critique-Vision-Strategy, The Proceedings of the Kenton Conference, 1986, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1987 4. (with J Hofmeyr) How Research and Information are Used, The Proceedings of the Research Utilization Seminar, 1988, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1988 5. Financing of Education, Workshop series no.1, Education Policy Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1989 6. (with R and K Tomaselli) Broadcasting in South Africa, James Currey, London, 1989 7. (with W Flanagan, C Hemson and N Taylor) Vintage Kenton: A Kenton Education Association Commemoration, Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town, 1994. 8. (with N Cloete, MW Makgoba and D Ekong) Knowledge, Identity and Curriculum Transformation in South Africa, Maskew Miller Longman,