Department of Educational Foundations

Prof Dirk JvR Postma

College of Education
School of Educational Studies
Department: Educational Foundations
Associate Professor
Tel: 012 429 4065
E-mail: postmdj@unisa.ac.za

Expertise

  • Decoloniality
  • Philosophy of Education
  • Political and power in education
  • Research theories

Qualifications

  • PhD (UP, 2009)
  • MEd (Wits, 1995)
  • MA (NWU, 1994)
  • H Dip Ed (Wits (1995)

Currently teaching

  • Philosophy in Education
  • Research theories

Fields of academic interests

  • Critical education studies
  • Posthumanism in education
  • Decoloniality in education

Field of Specialisation

  • Critical education studies
  • Posthumanism in education
  • Decoloniality in education

Books

  • 2014. Education as sociomaterial critique. In T. Fenwick & P. Landri (eds.), Materialities, textures and pedagogies. Routledge. (http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9781138013049/). 978-1-13-801304-9.
  • 2011. Towards critical medical practice: nursing practice and an EMR system.  Soliman, K.S. (Ed.) Creating Global Competitive Economies. A 360-degree Approach. Milan.
  • 2010. The politics of technological design and implementation. In: I. Brown (ed.), The Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ICIME), 25-26 March 2010. Reading: Academic Publishing Limited.  ISBN: 978-1-906638-57-3, pp 330-337.
  • 2010. Being critical of technology: An ANT perspective. In: T. Alexander, M. Turpin & J.P. van Deventer (eds.), IT to empower. Pretoria: University of Pretoria. ISBN: 978-0-620-47172-5.

Journal articles

  • 2016. The ethics of becoming in a pedagogy for social justice. A posthumanist perspectives. South African Journal of Higher Education, 30(3):310-328.
  • 2015. Critical agency in education: a Foucauldian perspective. Journal of Education, 61:31-52.
  • 2013. The politics of performative ontology in Information Systems. TD the Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 9(2):206-224.
  • 2012. Education as sociomaterial critique. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 20(1): 137 – 156.
  • 2012. Educational change, the agency of the educator and heterogeneous assemblages. Journal of Education, 53:55-74.
  • 2011. Who is laughing last in the South African classroom? A critical reflection on language in education. SALALS, 29(1):43 – 54. (co-author: M. Postma)

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • Chief Editor, Education as Change

Projects

  • A posthumanist understanding of critical agency in education
  • Distance education and decoloniality