Joyce Raanhuis
Dr Joyce Raanhuis is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria, Department of Humanities Education. She holds an MA in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex, and a Doctorate in Education, focusing on teachers and social cohesion in post-conflict settings, from the Centre for International Teacher Education, a South African Research Chair (SARCHi) in Teacher Education, hosted at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Following her doctoral studies, she lectured on the MA programme in Education Policy, Leadership and Change at the University of Cape Town.
Her research is interdisciplinary, situated at the intersection of Migration, Education, and History. Her current work explores controversial issues in education, focusing on History student-teachers in South Africa, the Netherlands, Suriname, and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. She recently completed a collaborative project with the University of Utrecht, in which student-teachers from South Africa and the Netherlands co-created knowledge on shared colonial histories and controversial topics in History Education.
Recent publications:
Raanhuis, J. (2023). Social justice and Hope: Teachers’ continuing professional development in South Africa. In Bourn, D. & Tarozzi, M. (Eds) Pedagogy of hope for global social justice. Sustainable Futures for People and the Planet. London: Bloomsbury, p. 225-240
Raanhuis, J. (2023). Teachers’ Views of Continuing Professional Development Related to Social Cohesion in the Western Cape, South Africa. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Cape Town: Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Raanhuis, J. (2021). Empowering teachers as agents of social cohesion:
Continuing professional development in post-apartheid South Africa. Policy & Practice. Issue 33. Autumn, 28-51
Sayed, Y., Badroodien, A., Omar, Y., Balie, L., McDonald, Z., de Kock, T., Salmon, T., Raanhuis, J., Singh, M., Robinson, N. and Nakidien, T. (2017).
Engaging Teachers in Peacebuilding in Post-conflict Contexts: Evaluating Education Interventions in South Africa. Cape Town: Centre for International Teacher Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology