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From Kilimanjaro coffee farmers in Tanzania to militant bus drivers in Ann Arbor Michigan to the education activists of South Africa and Namibia, the orienting concern of Joel Samoff�??s work has been understanding how people organize themselves to transform their communities. With a background in history, political science, and education, he studies and teaches about development and underdevelopment, with a particular interest in education, and with a primary geographic focus on Africa. For many years he has studied politics and public policy in South Africa. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1980 and is currently at the Center for African Studies. He has also been a faculty member at the Universities of California (Santa Barbara, Los Angeles), Michigan, and Zambia, and he has taught for shorter periods in Mexico, South Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. In 2005 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria. Concerned with public policy as well as research, and especially with the links between the two, he works regularly with international agencies and NGOs involved in African education. In recent years he has worked with UNESCO and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa to review and improve aid-funded education research in Africa. He is the North America Editor of the International Journal of Educational Development and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Comparative Education Review, Journal of Educational Research in Africa, and Southern African Review of Education. Among his publications are: The World Bank and Education: Critiques and Alternatives (co-edited with Steven J. Klees and Nelly P. Stromquist)(2012), “Institutionalizing International Influence,” and “Education for All in Africa: Still a Distant Dream” (with Bidemi Carrol) in Arnove and Torres, Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local (2007); “Bantu Education, People's Education, Outcomes-Based Education: Whither Education in South Africa,” in Everard Weber, editor, Educational Change in South Africa: Reflections on Local Realities, Practices, and Reforms (2008). Currently teaching
AFRICAST 199: Independent Study or Directed Reading
(Autumn)
INTNLREL 198: Senior Thesis (Autumn, Winter, Spring) INTNLREL 197: Directed Reading in International Relations (Winter, Spring) |