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Faculty Research Profiles: Bekisizwe Ndimande
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Curriculum & Instruction
315 Education Building
1310 S. 6th St. MC 708
Champaign, IL 61820USA
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Research Biography
Bekisizwe Ndimande's research interests include the politics of curriculum and examining the policies and practices in post-apartheid desegregated public schools and the implications of school "choice" for disadvantaged communities. His current research on these issues also provides a comparative analysis between the United States and post-apartheid South Africa.
Degrees
- Ph.D., Curriculum & Instruction and Education Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005
- M.Ed., Curriculum Design, Implementation, and Evaluation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1998
- B.Ed., Foundations of Education, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa, 1995
Key Professional Appointments
- Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005--
Activities & Honors
- I serve on the advisory editorial board, Cadernos de Educacao, a journal published at Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil, AERA, 2010-2014
- I was invited to review articles submission to the American Educational Research Journal, Ad-hoc reviewer for AERJ journal, AERA, 2010
- Certification of Appreciation, AERA Division K, This was awarded by the Chair of the Legacay Award Committee to recognize my work on this AERA committee since 2009 to present, AERA, Division K, 2008-2011
- Editorial Advisory Board member, International Journal of Educational Policy, Research and Practice, International Journal of Educational Policy, Research and Practice, 2006-2014
- Proposal Reviewer, Division B, American Educational Research Association, 2005
Selected Publications
- Ndimande, B. S. (In Press). Lutas Docentes nas Escolas Públicas para negros na África do Sul pós-apartheid. Cadernos de Educação, Ano 20, n.38, jan./abril, 2011
- Ndimande, B. S. (2010). Neoliberalism and teacher struggles in post-apartheid public schools. In R. Verma (Ed.), Be the change: Teacher, activist, global citizen (pp.275-288). New York: Peter Lang.
- Ndimande, B. S. (2010). Critical theory as social justice pedagogy. In T. Chapman & N. Hobble (Eds.), Social justice across the curriculum: The practice of freedom (pp.89-103). New York: Routledge.
- Ndimande, B. S. (2009). Persistent exclusions in post-apartheid education: Experiences of Black parents. In C. Mitakidou, E. Tressou, B. B. Swadener, & C. Grant (Eds.), Beyond pedagogies of exclusion in diverse childhood contexts: Transnational challenges (pp. 81-98). New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Ndimande, B. S. (2009). Multicultural strategies for education and social change: Carriers of the torch in the United States and South Africa by Arnetha F. Ball [book review]. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 19, 261-268.

