PUBLICATIONS (34 in total)
ARTICLES IN ACCREDITED ACADEMIC JOURNALS (18 in total: 3 international, 15 national)
International (3)
1. B van Wyk 2003. Exploring the notion of educational transformation: in search of constitutive meanings.
International Journal of Special Education, 18(2): 1-18.
2. B van Wyk 2006. Exploring constitutive meanings of educational transformation in South Africa.
Interchange, 37(3): 181-199.
3. B van Wyk & P Higgs 2007. The call for an African university: a critical reflection. Higher Education Policy,
20(1): 61-71.
National (15)
1. B van Wyk 2003. Educational Transformation: Re-imagining Higher Education.
South African Journal of Higher Education, 17(3): 152-157.
2. B van Wyk 2004. An analysis of transformation at three South African universities. Education as Change,
8(1): 164-186.
3. B van Wyk & P Higgs 2004. Towards an African philosophy of higher education. South African Journal of
Higher Education, 18(3): 196-210.
4. B van Wyk 2005. Performativity in higher education transformation in South Africa. South African Journal
of Higher Education, 19(1): 5-19.
5. B van Wyk 2005. Higher education and the market: influence and responses. Acta Academica, 37(3): 4164.
6. B van Wyk 2006. Teacher education for democracy and social justice: a reply to Harley and Parker. South
African Journal of Higher Education, 20(6): 879-887.
7. P Higgs & B van Wyk 2007. Lifelong learning revisited: an African educational discourse. Education as
Change, 11(1): 111-123.
8. P Higgs & B van Wyk 2007. African philosophy and knowledge production in higher education. Journal of
Educational Studies, 6(2): 179-188.
9. P Higgs & B van Wyk 2007. The transformation of university teaching and learning: An African
philosophical perspective. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 6(2): 177-187.
10. B van Wyk 2008. Learning and an African lifeworld in (higher) education. Indilinga: African Journal of
Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 7(2): 171-182.
11. B van Wyk 2009. The (South-African) university and political consciousness. Journal of Educational Studies,
8(4): 118-129.
12. B van Wyk 2010. The affirmative action debate: A critical reflection. South African Journal of Higher
Education, 24(2): 358-366.
13. P Higgs, L van Niekerk & B van Wyk 2010. The role of community in curriculum development for open and
distance learning in an African context. Progressio: South African Journal for Open and Distance Learning
Practice, 32(2): 134-144.
14. B van Wyk & P Higgs. 2011. The curriculum in an African context. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous
Knowledge Systems, 10(2): 171-181.
15. B van Wyk & A Jacobs. 2012. Cultural change and the emergence of the knowledge-driven economy. South
African Journal of Higher Education, 26(6): 1170-1181.
PAPERS PUBLISHED IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (3)
1. B van Wyk 2009. Universities as Institutions or Organisations: Culture and one University. London
International Conference on Education (LICE-2009), ISBN 978-0-9564263-0-7, London, 9-12 Nov, 146-154.
2. B van Wyk 2010. Learner Diversity and Learning: a Perspective from South Africa.
Procedia Social and Behavioural Sciences 7(C) (2010) 247-253. International Conference on Learner
Diversity (ICELD).
3. B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill 2011. Community, Schools and Society: An analysis of curriculum conflict and
resolution through South Africa and United States perspectives. Proceedings of the 7th International
Conference on Education (ICE), Vol B, 135-139 (ISBN 978-960-466-080-3). Research and Training Institute of
East Aegean (INEAG), Samos Island, Greece, 7-9 July 2011.
BOOKS (1)
B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill (Eds.) 2014. Indigenous Concepts of Education: Toward Elevating Humanity for All
Learners. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
BOOK CHAPTERS (12 in total: 7 international, 5 national)
International (7)
1. Higgs & B van Wyk. 2006. University teaching in South Africa: An African Philosophical Perspective. In: C
Kreber (Ed.), International Policy Perspectives on Improving Learning with Limited Resources. New
Directions for Higher Education Series, no. 133. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass, 81-90 (on
invitation).
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P Higgs & B van Wyk. 2007. An African discourse on lifelong learning: a South African case study. In: DN
Aspin (Ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning. Lifelong Learning Book Series, Vol 11.
Springer Press, Netherlands, 148-157 (on invitation).
3. B van Wyk & P Higgs. 2012. The Future of University Research in Africa. In: R Barnett (Ed.), The Future
University. New York: Routledge, 178-186 (on invitation).
4. A Dodge & B van Wyk. 2013. The Courageous Conversations Project: Interrogating Perspectives and
Perceptions of Race, Poverty and Schooling in South Africa and the United States. In: Ira Bogotch &
Carolyn Shields (Eds.), International Handbook on Social (In)Justice and Educational Leadership. Springer:
??, 643-665.
5. B van Wyk. 2012. Race, (Re)Segregation and Schools: lessons from democratic South Africa.In: Judith
Brooks-Buck & and Carol Camp Yeakey (Eds.), Being on the Wrong Side of History. Critical Readings on Resegregation and Race in 21st Century America (forthcoming).
6. B van Wyk 2014. The Khoisan indigenous educational system and the construction of modern Khoisan
identities. In: B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill (Eds.) 2014. Indigenous Concepts of Education: Toward
Elevating Humanity for All Learners. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 17-30.
7. B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill 2014. Introduction. In: B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill (Eds.) Indigenous Concepts
of Education: Toward Elevating Humanity for All Learners. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-14.
National (5)
1. B van Wyk 2004. Reconstructing (higher) educational transformation through citizenship. In: Y Waghid &
LL le Grange (Eds.), Imaginaries on democratic education and change. Pretoria: SAARDHE, 147-155.
2. B van Wyk 2005. Higher education transformation in the Western Cape: On the transformative potential
of ubuntu and communitarianism. In: Y Waghid (Ed.), B van Wyk (Assoc. Ed.) & F Adams & I November
(Contributing Eds.), African(a) Philosophy of Education: Reconstructions and Deconstructions.
Stellenbosch: Department of Education Policy Studies, 100-112.
3. B van Wyk 2005. Hermeneutics and the idea of an African lifeworld. In: Y Waghid (Ed.), B van Wyk (Assoc
Ed.) & F Adams & I November (Contributing Eds.), African(a) philosophy of Education: Reconstructions and
Deconstructions. Stellenbosch: Department of Education Policy Studies, 86-99.
4. B van Wyk 2009. Universities as organisations or institutions?: the culture debate and one institution. In: E
Bitzer (Ed.), Higher Education in South Africa: A scholarly look behind the scenes. Stellenbosch: SUN
MeDIA, 331-347.
5. A Fataar, J Heystek, B van Wyk & A Badroodien 2012. Introduction. In: A Fataar (Ed.), Debating Thesis
Supervision. Perspectives from a university education department. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (55 in total: 23 international, 32 national)
International (22)
1. B van Wyk 2004. Educational transformation: towards re-imagining higher education. International
Network of Philosophers of Education (INPE). Ninth Biennial Conference. Universidad Complutense,
Madrid, Spain, 4-7 August.
2. B van Wyk 2005. Hermeneutics and the idea of an African lifeworld. Paper presented at the International
Symposium on African Philosophy of Education organised by the German International Institute for Educational
Research, Frankfurt, Germany, 29-30 August.
3. B van Wyk 2005. The state of education in South Africa: critical reflections. Roundtable discussion at the
International Symposium on African Philosophy of Education organised by the German International
Institute for Educational Research, Frankfurt. 29-30 August.
4. B van Wyk & P Higgs 2005. African philosophy and knowledge production in higher education. Joint
Conference of the South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education and The
Productive Learning Cultures Project, University of Bergen, Norway. Scandic Hotel, Bergen City.
Knowledge production and higher education in the 21st Century, 31 August-2 September.
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B van Wyk 2006. Knowledge construction and an African lifeworld. 10th International Network of
Philosophers of Education (INPE). University of Malta, Malta. 3-6 August.
B van Wyk 2007. The university and political consciousness. American Educational Research Association .
Philosophical Studies Special Interest Group. Chicago, USA. 9-13 April.
P Higgs & B van Wyk 2008. The Curriculum in an African Context: A Critical Reflection. Comparative &
International Education Society (CIES). New York, 17-21 March.
B van Wyk 2008. Exploring constitutive meanings of institutional culture: a South-African case study.
American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philosophical Studies Special Interest Group. New
York, 21-25 March.
B van Wyk 2008. Discourses on institutional culture in higher education in South Africa. 11th International
Network of Philosophers of Education (INPE). Kyoto University, Japan, 8-11 August.
B van Wyk 2009. Political consciousness and democratic citizenship in South Africa. American Educational
Research Association. Special Interest Group: Democratic Citizenship in Education. San Diego, USA. 13-17
April.
Waghid Y, P Beets, B van Wyk, C Reddy & L le Grange 2009. Africanisation and Curriculum Change(s) in
South Africa: Exploring Education for Social Justice. IAACS 2009 International Conference, Lord Charles
Hotel, Somerset West, 6-10 Sept.
B van Wyk 2009. Universities as Institutions or Organisations: Culture and one University. London
International Conference of Education (LICE-2009), London, 9-12 Nov.
B van Wyk 2010. Reconceptualising Teacher Education in South Arica: Democracy, Knowledge and Social
Justice. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Critical Educators for Social Justice Studies
Special Interest Group. Denver, Colorado, 30 Apr-4 May.
B van Wyk 2010. The role of education in building capacity across diverse populations in complex political
ecologies: A South-African perspective. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Presidential
Session, Invited Session. Denver, Colorado, 30 Apr-4 May.
Waghid Y, LL le Grange, PAD Beets, B van Wyk 2010. Ubuntu and the Reconceptualisation of a South
African Teacher Education Program. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Div Teaching and
Teacher Education. Denver, Colorado, 30 Apr-4 May.
B van Wyk 2010. Learner diversity and learning: a perspective from South Africa. International Conference
on Learner Diversity (ICELD). Selangor, Malaysia, 17-20 Oct.
B van Wyk 2011. The African concept of ubuntu, education and society: A South African perspective.
American Educational Research Association (AERA), Caribbean and African Studies in Education SIG New
Orleans, USA, 8-12 April.
B van Wyk & D Adeniji-Neill. 2011. Community, schools and society: an analysis of curriculum conflict and
resolutions – through South Africa and United States perspectives. International Conference on Education
(ICE), Research and Training Institute of East Aegean, Greece. Samos Island, Greece, 7-9 July.
D Adeniji-Neill & B van Wyk 2012. To Know Is Not Enough”: Diaspora Fathers’ Conduct of Fatherhood,
Teaching, and Learning With Their Children in a new World. American Educational Research Association
(AERA), Caribbean and African Studies in Education SIG Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 13-17 April.
B van Wyk 2012. Reconstruction of knowledge through science education: arguing for African communitybased research. 30th International Conference of Psychology (ICP), Cape Town, 22-27 July.
B van Wyk 2013. Exploring the role of education in poverty reduction and multicultural contexts:
Caribbean perspectives (Discussant). American Educational Research Association (AERA), Caribbean and
African Studies in Education SIG, San Francisco, USA, 27 April-1 May.
B van Wyk 2014. A Critical hermeneutical perspective of institutional culture of higher education. INPE 14th
Biennial Conference, Cosenza, Italy. 20-13 August 2014.
B van Wyk 2015. Equity Pedagogies and Research Methodologies of Hope. American Educational Research
Association (AERA), Presidential Session, Invited Session. Chicago, Illinois, 13 -17 April.
National (32)
1. B van Wyk 2002. A Conceptual Analysis at three South African universities in relation to the National Plan
for Higher Education. 2nd Education Research Conference, University of Cape Town, 27-28 September.
2. B van Wyk 2002. A Conceptual Analysis of Transformation at three South African universities in relation to
the National Plan for Higher Education. Education Faculty Colloquium for Post-graduate Students.
Stellenbosch University, 1 November.
3. B van Wyk 2003. Educational Transformation in a Deliberative Democratic Framework. Conference of the
Education Association of South Africa (EASA), Stellenbosch University, 14-16 January.
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B van Wyk 2003. Educational Transformation: Re-imagining Higher Education. 13th Biennial Conference of
the South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education, Stellenbosch University.
25-27 June.
B van Wyk 2003. Citizenship: a logically necessary condition of educational transformation. Education
Students’ Third Regional Conference. University of Cape Town. 26-27 September.
B van Wyk 2003. Educational Transformation: Revisiting Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics. Joint
Kenton/SACHES Conference, Goudini Spa, Worcester. 30 Oct-2 Nov.
B van Wyk 2004. Educational Transformation: A Philosophical Perspective. EASA Conference, Rand
Afrikaans University. 13-15 January.
B van Wyk 2004. A Conceptual Analysis of Transformation at three South African universities in relation to
the National Plan for Higher Education. Education Faculty, University of Stellenbosch. Colloquium for Postgraduate Students. 26 March.
B van Wyk & P Higgs 2004. Towards an African philosophy of higher education. Joint Conference of the
South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education and the Productive Learning
Cultures Project (University of Bergen, Norway), Durban. 10-12 June.
B van Wyk 2004. Rethinking philosophy of higher education. Kenton Education Association, Didima
Conference Centre, Cathedral Peak, 30 September - 3 October.
B van Wyk 2005. Institutional culture for effective education. EASA Conference. North-West University,
Potchefstroom, 12-14 Jan.
B van Wyk & P Higgs 2005. The call for an African university: a critical reflection. South African Association
for Research and Development in Higher Education conference: The African University in the 21 st Century.
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. 27-29 June.
B van Wyk 2005. Research panelist with S Pendlebury & M Abrahams (on invitation). Pitfalls in graduate
research. Fifth Education Students’ Regional Research Conference, Stellenbosch University, 30 Sept-1 Oct.
B van Wyk 2005. Exploring constitutive meanings of institutional culture. Kenton Education Association,
Mpekweni Sun, (In)equality, democracy and quality. 27-30 Oct.
B van Wyk 2006. Higher education and an African lifeworld. EASA Conference, Ilanga Estate, Bloemfontein.
18-20 Jan.
B van Wyk 2006. Response to K Harley: Teacher education in South Africa: social change, quality
assurance, and democracy. Symposium: Higher Education quality assurance in South Africa: Widens
democracy or not? Education Faculty, Stellenbosch University. 10 Aug.
B van Wyk & P Higgs 2006. The curriculum revisited: An African discourse. EASA/Kenton International
Conference. Protea Wilderness Resort, Wilderness, South Africa. 28 Nov-1 Dec.
B van Wyk, Y Waghid, L le Grange & P Beets 2006. Symposium: African(a) Philosophy of Education:
Reconstructions and Deconstructions. EASA/Kenton International Conference. Protea Wilderness Resort,
Wilderness, South Africa. 28 Nov-1 Dec.
B van Wyk 2007. Effective outcomes based training for teachers - Leadership and organisational
development. Education in Southern Africa Summit. BMW Pavilion, Cape Town. 5-9 March (on invitation).
B van Wyk 2007. Knowledge and higher education: a critical reflection (keynote address). First Education
Students’ Research Conference, University of the Free State, 22 Sept (on invitation).
B van Wyk 2008. Knowledge, democracy and social justice: a critical reflection. Education Association of
South Africa (EASA), Club Mykonos, Langebaan, 8-11 January.
B van Wyk & LL le Grange 2008. Wittgenstein and social justice (symposium). Education Association of
South Africa (EASA), Club Mykonos, Langebaan, 8-11 January.
B van Wyk & P Higgs 2008. The curriculum in an African context: a critical reflection. 2nd
African Conference on Curriculum Development in Higher Education, Willow Park Conference Centre,
Bredell, Gauteng, 16-18 Sep.
B van Wyk 2009. Moving beyond performativity: cultivating imagination and creativity. Kenton
Conference, Protea Hotel, Techno Park, Stellenbosch, 5-8 Nov.
Y Waghid, B van Wyk, L le Grange 2009. Performativity and Education: Taking a Post-Structuralist Turn
(symposium). Kenton Conference, Protea Hotel, Techno Park, Stellenbosch, 5-8 Nov.
Y Waghid, C Reddy, B van Wyk, P Beets, L le Grange 2010. Education as an inconsistent initiation into
practices: In conversation with Derrida and Deleuze (symposium). EASA Conference, Quest Conference
Centre, Vanderbijlpark, 12-14 Jan.
B van Wyk & A Jacobs. 2011. Cultural change and the emergence of the knowledge-driven economy.
“Knowledge production and Higher Education in the 21 st Century” – Knowledge 2011. V&A Waterfront,
Cape Town, 28-31 March.
28. B van Wyk. 2011. Bauman’s idea of the liquid world: implications for higher education. Kenton Conference.
Cape Town, 3-6 Nov.
29. B van Wyk. 2013. What happened to education in post-apartheid South Africa? South African Education
Research Association (SAERA), ATKV Klein Kariba, 28-30 Jan.
30. B van Wyk. 2014. The complex relationship between authority and freedom in education. EASA, Golden
Gate National Park, 12-15 Jan.
31. B van Wyk. 2014. Research in philosophy, education, and policy. SAERA, Durban, 13-15 August 2014.
32. B van Wyk 2014. Higher education and critical consciousness: Towards a citizen of the world. Stellenbosch
University. International conference on the relevance of critical citizenship education in an African
context. 26-27 November 2014, Visual Arts Department, Stellenbosch University.