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Degrees Held
- BA (Natal)
- HDE, BEd Hons (UDW)
- MA (Durham)
- DEd (UDW)
Profile
Experience
Michael Samuel is a Professor in the School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal. He holds Doctorate in Education from the University of Durban-Westville which focuses on a Force field model of teacher development. He has served as a curriculum designer of innovative masters and collaborative doctoral cohort programmes locally and internationally. He has also been a member of the Ministerial Committee on Teacher Education assisting the development of national teacher education policy in South Africa. He has served as Dean (Faculty of Education, UKZN). His research interest focuses on teacher professional development, higher education, life history and narrative inquiry. His book, Life history research: Epistemology, methodology and representation has inspired several studies of professional development in education and the health sciences. Continuity, complexity and change: Teacher education in Mauritius, explores the challenges and possibilities facing a small island in negotiating its presence in global and international discourse of comparative higher education and teacher education. His new book Disrupting higher education curriculum: Undoing cognitive damage explores options for imaginative redirection of higher education curriculum design. He is the recipient of the Turquoise Harmony Institute’s National Ubuntu Award for Contribution to Education.
Accomplishments
| Executive member of the South Africa Education Research Association | 2016-2020 |
| Nominated as South African nominee by Department of Basic Education: Teacher Development Directorate: UNESCO- Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers | August 2013 |
| Invited by University of Hong Kong: Faculty of Education. Faculty Visitorship Scheme | 20 April-05 May 2013 |
| Invited to an international Visitorship programme to Turkey: School, university, cultural linkages | April 2012 |
| Invited member of the Advisory Council for the Commonwealth Secretariat on Teacher Mobility, Recruitment and Migration | 2010-2017 |
| South African Council for Educators (SACE) Interim endorsement committee for Continuing Professional Teacher Development | 2009 |
| Elected Chair of the national Higher Education South Africa (HESA) Education Deans Forum (EDF) | 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011 |
| Endorsement Working Group: Department of Education and South African Council of Educators (SACE) Professional Council | 2008 |
| Invited Panel member: Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf): The PhD Study | 2008—2009 |
| Reference Group: South African Council for Education (SACE) – Department of Education Continuing Professional Teacher Development | 2007-2009 |
| Advisory Reference Group: Council on Higher Education national review of academic and professional programmes in teacher education in South Africa | 2004-2009 |
| Ministerial Committee on Teacher Education: Tasked with developing the national Policy Framework for Teacher Education | 2003-2005 |
| Nominated Ministerial Committee representative on the Technical Committee for the ELRC/HSRC study on determinants of educator demand and supply in the context of HIV & AIDS | 2004- 2005 |
Awards
| National Ubuntu Award for contribution to Education. Turquoise Harmony Institute, South Africa | 2011 |
| International Visitor Fellowship Award by the United States Information Services (USIS): Visited teacher education Sites in the United States of America | 1997 |
| British Council Scholarship. Teaching English as a second language. Masters of Arts (Applied Linguistics). University of Durham | 1986-87 |
| BEd (honours). Cum Laude. University of Durban Westville | 1988 |
| UHDE (with Distinction) University of Durban-Westville | 1983 |
| Certificate for Outstanding Performance: Psychology. University of Natal | 1982 |
Research Interests
- Narrative inquiry
- Higher education studies
- Teacher professional development
- Doctoral research and supervision
Teaching Interests
- Narrative inquiry
- Higher education studies
- Teacher professional development
- Doctoral research and supervision: Cohorts: UKZN (PhD in Higher Education Studies), Mauritius Institution of Education
Supervision
- Life history and narrative inquiry methodology
- Teacher professional development
- Has supervised over 20 PhD studies to successful completion: Fields include Higher education studies, Health science professional development, Teacher professional development
Community Engagement
- Involvement in Digital Initiative for African Centres of Excellence (DIGI FACE) Project: including 11 Centres of Excellence in African higher education institutions and
- Involvement in East and South African-German Centre of Excellence for Educational Research Methodologies and Management (CERM-ESA) Supervisory and staff capacity development in postgraduate supervision project (2018-2020)
- Research supervisory capacity development: (institutional, national, international)
- Samuel MA 2019-2020. (repeat/ variants). The research wheel: Supporting novice supervisors for postgraduate supervision.
- Workshop on using a personally designed pedagogical tool to support postgraduate research coherence and supervision. Target audience: novice supervisors and postgraduate students. Approximately 800 participants in workshops over 2017-2020.
- Mentorship Development programme: Samuel MA. A menu of mentorship possibilities. UKZN: University Capacity Development Programme (UCDP) (2018-2019).
- Inter-faith dialogue across different religious groups.
Publications
Books
- Naidoo M, Samuel MA, Green P, Chakoma IC, Govender S, O’Donoghue S, Phaswana I., Naidoo C, Hoque M, Kader A & Gerwel Proches CN 2019. Insights on PhD research nuances. Self Published. https://gsbl.ukzn.ac.za/ library
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- Samuel M, Dhunpath R and Amin, N 2016. (eds.) Disrupting higher education curriculum: Undoing cognitive damage. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 978-94-6300-894-5
- Samuel M & Mariaye H (eds.) 2016. Continuity, complexity and change: Teacher Education in Mauritius. Common Ground Publishing: University of Illinois, Champaign. ISBN 978-1-61229-820-7 https://www.amazon.com/Continuity-Complexity-Change-Michael…/dp/1612298206
Journal Articles
- Samuel MA 2020. Shifting literacies and positionalities in COVID-19 times: The launching of the Higher Education Learning and Teaching in South Africa (HELTASA) doctoral studies programme. In Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association (HELTASA) Compilation of Short and Sharp and Socially Aware (SASASA) pieces on teaching and learning in response to COVID-19. : http://heltasa.org.za/shifting-literacies-and-positionalities-in-covid-19-times-the-launch-of-the-heltasa-doctoral-studies-programme Retrieved 05 May 2020.
- Samuel MA, Wassermann J & Singh V. (in press 2020). Graduate attributes and case-based teaching in a Pharmacy undergraduate university program: Pharmacy educators’ perspectives. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. 12 (7) July 2020.
- Dhunpath R, Matisonn H & Samuel M 2018. Towards a model of mentoring in South African higher education, Alternation 25 (2) (2018): 78-105. Special issue: Crises, contestations and futures in higher education. Electronic ISSN: 2519-5476; DOI https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2018/v25n2a4
- Samuel MA 2018. Exploring conference spaces through poetic inquiry: Loving demons and disobedient angels. African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning. 2(1): 47-63. June 2018. ISSN 252100262 Print URL: http:www.ul.ac.za/APoRTAL. [New: non-accredited journal]
- Myende P, Samuel MA & Pillay A 2018. Novice rural principals’ successful leadership practices in financial management: Multiple accountabilities. South African Journal of Education. 38(2): 1-11.Art.#1447, 11 pages, https://doi.org/10.15700/saje.v38n2a1447 (CWWM 2016)
- Mariaye H & Samuel MA 2018. Educational hubs and private higher education expansion in small island developing state contexts: The case of Mauritius. Transformation in Higher Education 3(0) a 46. https://doi.org/10.4102/the.v310 46.
- Ndlovu Z, Amin N & Samuel MA 2017. Examining pre-service teachers’ subject matter knowledge of school mathematics concepts. Journal of Education. 70: 46-72. http://journal.ukzn.ac.za/index.php/joe/index
- Samuel MA 2017. Developing a syntax for SOTL. SOTL in the South: A journal dedicated to Scholarship of teaching and learning in the ‘global south’. 1(1):19-38: September 2018. [New: non-accredited journal]. https://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=11
- Singh-Pillay A & Samuel MA 2017. Life Sciences teachers negotiating professional development agency in changing curriculum times. EURASIA Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education. 13(6): 1749-1763. ISSN: 1305 8223 2017 DOI 10.12973/eurasia.2017.00696a.http://www.iserjournals.com/DOI10.12973/eurasia.2017.00696a. Titles transferred to MODESTUM LIMITED, UK.EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education.Current website: ejmste.com
- Nnadozie V & Samuel MA 2017. Alternative pathways to universal basic education: Through the lens of Almajiri nomadic schooling in northern Nigeria. Southern African Review of Education. 23(1): 105-120.
- Samuel M 2016. Methodological agency: constructing an institutional life history of a teacher education institution in Mauritius. Island Studies Indian Ocean 2016. 3 (1): 14-25.
- Samuel, Michael Anthony 2016. Values and purposes of a PhD: Comparative responses from South Africa and Mauritius. Higher Education Forum. Volume 13 March 2016: 1-23.
- Samuel M 2015. Re-membering and re-directing the self: an educational journey. Journal of International Cooperation in Education. 17 (2). 2015: 109-127.
- Munro N & Samuel M 2015. African students who excel in South African higher education: Retro(pro) spectivity and co-regulation of learning. 17(2015): 168-190. ISSN 1023-1757. http://alternation.ukzn.ac.za/pages/volume-22-2015/alternation-special-edition-no-17-2015-student-acc.aspx
- Arbee, A & Samuel M 2015. The writing centre: A site for discursive dialogue in Management Studies. South African Journal of Higher Education. 29 (5). 2015: 48-69. ISSN 1011-3487. Paper awarded Certificate of Merit for Best Teaching and Learning article 2016, UKZN, College of Law and Management Studies.
- Samuel M 2015. Beyond narcissism and hero-worshipping: Life history research and narrative inquiry. Alternation. 22 (2) 2015: 8-28. Special Issue: Memory work and interdisciplinary studies (Editors: Sabine Marshall & Phillipe Dennis). ISSN 1023-1757.
- Samuel M 2015. Angels in the wind: the future of educational research. Journal of Education. Number 61. 2015: 147-158.
- Ankiah-Gangadeen A & Samuel M 2014. Biography, policy and language teaching practices in a multi-lingual context: early childhood classrooms in Mauritius. South African Journal of Childhood Education. 2014. 4 (2) : 57-72. ISSN: 2223-7674
- Samuel M 2014. South African teacher voices: recurring resistances and reconstructions for teacher education and development, Journal of Education for Teaching: International research and pedagogy, 40:5, 610-621To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2014.956546 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02607476.2014.956546. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UIZFXYEh2ZmQxHGtVF3F/full
- Samuel M 2014 Doctoral career path studies: exchanging paradigms across international borders. South African Journal of Higher Education. 2014 28.(5): 1469-1484. ©Unisa Press ISSN 1011-3487.
- Samuel M & Maistry S (eds.) 2014. Brother Sun and Sister Moon: I can hear your tune, so much in love with all I survey. 2014. 21 (1): 1-14. Special Issue: Education at the Crossroads. ISSN 1023-1757.
- Samuel M 2014. The other and I: Turkish teachers in South Africa. Education as Change: Journal of Curriculum Research. 18 (1):9-20. January 2014: 9-20. DOI: 10.1080/16823206.2013.847010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16823206.2013.847019 Samuel M & Mariaye H 2014. “De-colonising international partnerships: The UKZN-Mauritius Institute of Education PhD programme”.COMPARE: A journal of Comparative and International Education. 44 (4) (July 2014): 501-521.DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2013.795100 ISSN 0305-7925 (Print) 1469-3623 (Online) http://dx.doi.org/1080/03057925.2013.795100
- Samuel M 2014. Educational leadership: the audience creates the text. Paper accepted by International Journal of Education Development in Africa (IJEDA). 1(1): 31-45.
Chapters in Books
- Samuel MA & Mariaye H 2020. (in press). Co-existing agendas for higher education in Mauritius: Internationalisation, massification and corporatisation. In Sarangapani P & Pappu R (eds.) Global Education Systems. Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia. Springer Nature. New York. Accepted April 2020. First Online April 2020.URL: https://meteor.springer.com/container/contribute.jsf?id=150586
- Samuel MA, Mariaye H 2020. Schooling education in Mauritius. In Sarangapani P, Pappu R (eds) Handbook of education systems in South Asia. Global education systems. Springer, Singapore. Received 02 May 2019; Accepted 13 August 2019. First Online 24 October 2019.DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3309-5_54-1. Publisher Name Springer, Singapore. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-981-13-3309-5_54-1, Online ISBN 978-981-13-3309-5. URL: https://meteor.springer.com/container/contribute.jsf?id=139619.
- Ojo-Aromokudu, JT, Samuel MA & Dhunpath R 2020. A demand-driven subsidised housing policy for South Africa. In Myeni DT & Okem AE (eds.) The political economy of government subsidised housing in South Africa. Routledge Studies on the Political Economy of Africa. Routledge: London & New York, pages 60-79. ISBN: 978-1-138-3649101(hbk); ISBN: 978-0-429-43104-3(ebk).
- Samuel, MA (forthcoming). Trends in ‘post-apartheid’ teacher education: Reimagining our pathologies. In Sayed, Y. (ed.) Being a teacher in post-apartheid South Africa: Newly Qualified teachers experiences of teaching. Sun Media.
- Samuel MA 2019. Foreword: Becoming a doctor: New paths and old roads. In Naidoo M, Samuel MA, Green P, Chakoma IC, Govender S, O’ Donoghue S, Phaswana I, Naidoo C, Hoque M, Kader A, Gerwel Proches CN 2019. Insights on PhD Research Nuances. Self Published.This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License. To view a copy of the license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.
- Samuel MA 2018. Chapter 2. Entry attributes of doctoral students: Managing transitions. 33-56. In Du Preez P & Simmonds S (eds). A scholarship of doctoral education: On becoming a researcher. SUN MeDia: Stellenbosch. ISBN 978-1-928357-92-6 https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928357933
- Moodley T & Samuel MA 2018. Chapter 4. The rise of professional doctorates: A comparative study of psychology and music.57-90. In Du Preez P & Simmonds S (eds.) 2018. A scholarship of doctoral education: On becoming a researcher. SUN MeDia: Stellenbosch. ISBN 978-1-928357-92-6 https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928357933
- Pillay M & Samuel MA 2018. Chapter 16. What do they leave with? Doctoral Exit attributes. 249-273. In Du Preez P, Simmonds S (eds.). A scholarship of doctoral education: On becoming a researcher. SUNMEDIA: Stellenbosch. In Du Preez, P & Simmonds S (eds.) 2018. A scholarship of doctoral education: on becoming a researcher. SUN MeDia: Stellenbosch. ISBN 978-1-928357-92-6 https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928357933
- Samuel MA 2018. Foreword. Continuing professional development as conflicting agendas. In Y. Sayed, A. Badroodien, A & RJ Mogliacci (eds.) Continuing professional development of teachers in sub-Saharan Africa: Problems, prospects and possibilities. Bloomsbury Academic: London: xvii-xxii.ISBN: 978-1-4742-7789-1; ePDF: 978-1-4742-7788-4; eBook: 978-1-4742-7790-7 bloomsbury.com
- Samuel M & Mariaye H 2017. From a distance: Small island states and their global partners. In Tavis D. Jules & Patrick Ressler (eds.) Re-reading Educational Policy and Practice in Small States: Issues of size and scale in the emerging “intelligent society” and economy. Comparative Studies Series, ed. by Jürgen Schriewer, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang: 173-193.ISBN 978-3-631 705971.https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/16604.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-02633-7
- Samuel M.A. 2017. Chapter One: Understanding policy analysis: South African policies shaping teachers as professionals. In: Labby Ramrathan; Lesley Le Grange and Philip Higgs (eds.) Education Studies for Initial Teacher Development. Juta Publishers. Cape Town.
- Amin M, Dhunpath R and Samuel M 2016. Chapter 1. Undoing cognitive damage. Disrupting higher education curriculum: Undoing cognitive damage. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands: 1-14.
- Samuel M 2016 Chapter 11. Reading spatiality in higher education curriculum. In Samuel M, Dhunpath R and Amin, N 2015. Disrupting higher education curriculum: Undoing cognitive damage. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands: 171-191
- Samuel M 2016. Chapter 24: The future of doctoral education. In Fourie-Maherbe M, Albertyn R, Aitchson C and Bitzer E 9eds.) Postgraduate supervision: Future foci for the knowledge society. SUN Media: Stellenbosch: 397-419.
- Samuel M 2016. Afterword: Small islands: Big issues. In Samuel M & Mariaye H (eds.) 2015. Continuity, complexity and change: Teacher Education in Mauritius. Common Ground Publishing: University of Illinois, Champaign: 200.
- Samuel M 2016. Closing Chapter 9: new forms of intimacy and narrative possibilities: negotiating post-coloniality,indigeneity and internationalisation within small islands states. In Samuel M & Mariaye H (eds.) 2015. Continuity, complexity and change: Teacher Education in Mauritius. Common Ground Publishing: University of Illinois, Champaign: 172-199.
- Mariaye H & Samuel M 2016. Chapter 8: Teacher education, small island contexts and partnerships: rewriting the research-policy-thery0practice linkages. In Samuel M & Mariaye H (eds.) 2015. Continuity, complexity and change: Teacher Education in Mauritius. Common Ground Publishing: University of Illinois, Champaign:145-171.
- Mariaye H with Samuel M 2016 Introduction: developing an institutional biography of the Mauritius Institute of Education: A lens to understanding small islands developing states. In Samuel M & Mariaye H (eds.) 2015. Continuity, complexity and change: Teacher Education in Mauritius. Common Ground Publishing: University of Illinois, Champaign: xvi-xxvii.
Postgraduate Student Supervision
PhD
- Urisha Naidoo (PhD) (Higher Education) 200304137 Communication strategies of Speech-Language Therapists during clinical engagement: A case study of UKZN graduates (Co-supervisor: Prof Mershen Pillay)Sept 2019
- Yesha Mahadeo-Doorgakant (PhD) 212562431The development of the linguistic repertoire of primary school learners within the Mauritian education system (Co-supervisor: (co-supervision with Dr Nita Rughoonundun-Perumal) Sept 2017
- Nadira Manickhund (PhD) 9802800Parents’ decision-making of primary school choice for their children in KwaZulu-NatalApril 2017
- Aruna Ankiah-Gangadeen (PhD) 201556554Biographies, experiences and language practices: Teachers of Early Childhood Education in Mauritius April 2014
- Marinda Swart (PhD) 207529419On becoming a teacher: Novice teachers/ experiences of early professional learning (co-supervision with Dr. Guruvasagie Pillay) April 2014
- Jabu Ngwenya (PhD) 200000098 Teacher professional Development and Commerce Education (joint supervision with Dr Suriamurthee Maistry) 2013
- Steve Reid (PhD) 863865946Education for Rural Medical Practice (co-supervision with Prof. R. Vithal) 2011
- Shermaine Mannah (PhD) 8116908Women in the Teacher Union Leadership: A Case Study of South African Teachers Union (SADTU) 2009
DEd
- Mahomed Hanif Laher (DEd) 200001517A Curriculum Framework for Undergraduate Studies in Dental Science (co-supervision with Prof Jairam Reddy) 2010
- Shabier Hoosen Omar (DEd) 7811640Women in the Teacher Union Leadership: A Case Study of South African Teachers Union (SADTU) 2009
- Nyna Amin (DEd) 9903550A Paradox of Knowing: Teachers’ Knowing about Students (main supervisor: Prof. Renuka Vithal) 2008
- Rajesh Neerachand (DEd) 7608531A Critical Analysis of the National Policy on Whole School Evaluation and its impact on the Management Capacities of School Principals in the Durban South Regions in KwaZulu-Natal 2007
- Robin Joubert (DEd) 9151977Indigenous Fruits from Exotic Roots? Revisiting the South African Occupational Therapy Curriculum (co-supervision with Dr Z. Naidoo) 2007
- Cecilia Jacobs (DEd) 200300138Negotiated Understandings of the Academic Literacies Practices of Tertiary Educators 2006
- Sundrasagren Naidu (DEd) Recognition of Prior Learning and Assessment of Adult learners: Considerations for Theory, Policy and Practice 2004
- Guruvasagie Pillay (DEd) 7812246 A Cubist Narrative: Lives of Successful Teachers 2003
- Harsha Kathard (DEd) 8218320 Lives of people who Stutter: On becoming someone 2003
- Mershen Pillay (DEd) 8829813(Re)positioning the Powerful Expert and the Sick Person: A Case Study of Communication Pathology 2003
- Balenthran Gounden (DEd) 9609067 Teacher Professional Development: An Integrated Approach 2003
- Rubby Dhunpath (DEd) 7608938 Archaeology of a Language Development NGO 2003
- Shakila Reddy (DEd)Troubling Sexualities: Teenagers Conceptions of Sexuality in the context of HIV & AIDS 2003
- Prevanand Ramrathan (DEd) 7913087 Ways of Knowing: Teacher Attrition in the context of an HIV/AIDS Pandemic 2002
- Ruth Beecham (DEd) 9409167A Failure of Care: A Story of a Speech and Hearing Therapy Student 2002
MEd
- Maanasa Govender (MEd) 205524740The Role of Media in the Teacher Rationalization and Redeployment in KwaZulu-Natal 2001
- Mona Singh (MEd) Teacher Resignations: Perceptions of Teaching as Career 2002
- Karen Rachel Laban (MEd) 9147289 Learners’ Experiences of Adventure Education2002
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