Everard Weber
I am a retired professor. I have worked in the field of education for more than 40 years. Currently, I am a research associate, SARCHi Chair, Teaching and Learning at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), and an academic advisor in the Future Professors Programme (FPP) at UJ. This is a government-sponsored initiative that seeks to develop the next generation of professors and academic leaders in all disciplines, across all universities in South Africa. I studied African Languages and History at the University of Cape Town and Comparative and International Education at Harvard University. In South Africa, I have worked at Crestway High School in Cape Town, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the University of Pretoria. A recent book is “A Home Away from Home”: A Community of International and South African University Students”. Professor Chika Sehoole, Dean of the Education Faculty at the University of Pretoria, and I have edited about 60 papers from around the world on higher education in the 4th edition of the International Encyclopedia of Education published by Elsevier in 2022. I am presently conducting fieldwork on curriculum change in South African higher education with Professor Shireen Motala and Dr Venise Joubert at UJ. This project is grounded in the history of southern Africa and hopes to contribute to the scholarship of postcolonialism.
Violence
2023-07-19"We gain a certain understanding of Victorian classrooms at home and abroad, during the colonial period and after. We also learned of the contemporary cultures of neoliberal kitchens in neoliberal cities, and by implication, of many universities, their purposes of higher education and coercive relations of governance and management."