Prof N Madikizela-Madiya

Expertise

• Geography and environmental education
• Higher education policy and research
• Research in education
• Space and place for educational practice
• Spatial justice in education

Qualifications

• DEd Philosophy of Education (UNISA)
• MEd (UKZN)
• BEd Honours (Cum Laude, UNISA))

Currently teaching

• Educational Research Methodologies
• Academic Writing

Fields of academic interests

• Higher education research and development
• Academic identities
• Spatial justice and transformation
• Postgraduate supervision

Field of Specialisation

• Philosophy of education

Books

• Madikizela-Madiya, N. 2022. What is the mission of this university? The question of isomorphism and quality practices in the era of institutional rankings. In Sengupta, E., Blessinger, P. & Nezaami, N. (Eds.), Governance and Management in Higher Education (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, pp. 143-156, Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. http://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-364120220000043009
  
  
• Madikizela-Madiya, N. 2022. Open distance e-learning as the producer of space for quality assessment in higher education. In Neema-Abboki, P.  Quality Assessment and Enhancement in Higher Education in Africa, pp. 79-98, Routledge.
  
  
• Madikizela-Madiya, N. 2018. Space and place for Geography teaching and learning in the 21^st century. In E.S. Van Eeden & P. Warnich (Eds). Teaching and learning history and geography in the South African classroom. Pretoria: Van Schaik.

• Mncube, VS & Madikizela-Madiya, N. 2013. Educational reform: Curriculum, governance and teacher education. In C. Harber (Ed). Education in Southern Africa. London: Bloomsbury publishing.

Journal articles

• Madikizela-Madiya, N. & Motlhabane, A. 2022. Educational research ethics committees as space for situated learning in higher education, Education Research International, Accepted.

• Madikizela-Madiya, N. 2022. Transforming higher education spaces through ethical research publication: a critique of the ‘publish or perish’ aphorism, Higher Education Research & Development, DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2022.2048634

• Jojo, Z. & Madikizela-Madiya, N. 2022. Disrupting school spaces to enhance mathematics teaching and learning, Journal on Mathematics Education, 13(1), 87-102. http://doi.org/10.22342/jme.v13i1.

• Madikizela-Madiya, N. 2021. The question of access and spatial justice in universities in sub-Saharan Africa: A capabilities approach, Transformation in Higher Education, https://thejournal.org.za/index.php/thej

• Madikizela-Madiya, N. 2021. Relational research ethics and disengagement from collaborative projects: A conceptual analysis, South African Journal of Higher Education, Accepted.

• Madikizela-Madiya, N. & Atwebembeire, J. M. 2020. “Colleague postgraduate supervision” and the production of space in higher education: a duoethnographic analysis, Qualitative Research Journal, 21(2), 166-176. DOI 10.1108/QRJ-05-2020-0039

• Munasi, K. R. & Madikizela-Madiya, N. 2019. Agency curtailed: Implications for the integration of environmental education in Life Sciences, International Journal of Educational Development in Africa, 5(1): 1-15.

• Madikizela-Madiya, N. 2018. Mistrust in a multi-campus institutional context: a socio-spatial analysis, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, DOI:10.1080/1360080X.2018.1478609.

• Madikizela-Madiya, N. (2017). Ethics’ power dynamics in higher education’s self-ethnographic research, Qualitative Research Journal, 17 (1): 32-42.

• Madikizela-Madiya, N. & Le Roux, CS. (2017). Space and academic identity construction in higher education: an open and distance learning perspective. Higher Education Policy, 30: 185-201.

• Madikizela-Madiya, N. 2014. Rethinking space for academic identity construction in a higher education context: an application of Mouzelis’s typology. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 5(14): 298-303.

• Madikizela-Madiya, N. & Mncube VS. 2014. The hybrid nature of school space and the manifestation of violence in South African schools. Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 5(2).

• Mncube, V. & Madikizela-Madiya, N. 2014. Gangsterism as a cause of violence in South African schools: The case of six provinces. Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 5 (1): 43–50.

• Madikizela-Madiya, N., Goba, B. & Nkambule, T. 2013. Developing a researcher identity: A reflective narration of postgraduate students’ supervision experiences in a research project, South African Journal of Higher Education, 27(4): 941-952.

• Madiya, N., Bengesai, A. & Karlsson, J. 2011. What you do and where you are: A comparative analysis of postgraduate education research (1995-2004) from three South African higher education institutions, South African Journal of Higher Education, 25(2): 216-232.

• Moletsane, R., & Madiya, N. 2011. Postgraduate educational research on violence, gender and HIV/AIDS in and around schools (1995-2004), South African Journal of Higher Education, 25(2): 287-300.Molefe, S., Bengesai, A., Davey, B., Goba, B., Lekena, L., Madiya, N., Nkambule, T. 2011. ‘Now you call us colleagues’: A reflection on the PPER students’ experiences of becoming researchers (2007-2009), South African Journal of Higher Education, 25(2): 373-387.

Other

1. GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=Qp7cggYAAAAJ&hl=en
2. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4629-2913
3. Web of Science ResearcherID: J-4417-2016