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Prof Jonathan Jansen
Speaker
Prof Jonathan Jansen
Distinguished Professor of Education, Stellenbosch University
Jonathan Jansen is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. In 2016/17 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and in 2018/9 will be a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is currently President of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
He started his career as a Biology teacher in the Cape after receiving his science degree from the University of the Western Cape. He obtained a MS degree from Cornell University and a PhD from Stanford. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Vermont and Cleveland State University.
In 2013, he was awarded the Education Africa Lifetime Achiever Award in New York, the Spendlove Award from the University of California for his contributions to tolerance, democracy and human rights, and he also won the largest book award from the British Academy for the Social Sciences and Humanities for his book, Knowledge in the Blood (published by Stanford University Press).
His recent books include Leading for Change (Routledge, 2016), As by fire: the end of the South African university (Tafelberg, 2017), Interracial intimacies on campuses (Bookstorm, 2017) and Song for Sarah (Bookstorm, 2017). His 2018 books include Inequality in South African schools (with Nic Spaull, publisher Springer), the Politics of Curriculum (Wits University Press) and Who gets in and why? The politics of admissions (UCT Press)
Closing Keynote Address, Conference Day 3:
The Ethics and Politics of Procurement - Lessons for Collaboration
We tend to think of human activities like procurement as a set of technical procedures requiring effectiveness and efficiency. But these human tasks are also ethical and political in their essence, requiring a broader approach that recognises the role of values, interests and preferences in making decisions that are seemingly technical and procedural only. Using actual case studies from the field, this talk will demonstrate how critical relationships such as partnerships can make procurement both technically sound and socially just.