Jonathan Jansen

Jonathan Jansen is Honorary Professor of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand and Scholar-in-Residence at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Johannesburg, South Africa. His most recent books are Knowledge in the Blood: How white students remember and enact the past (2009, in press) and Diversity High: Class, Color, Character and Culture in a South African High School (2008, with Saloshna Vandeyar). In these and related works, he examines the ways in which leadership for social justice works against the grain of biography in contexts where reparation and reconciliation both remain as important goals of social transition. He is a recent Fulbright Scholar to Stanford University (2007-2008), former Dean of Education at the University of Pretoria (2001-2007), and Honorary Doctor of Education from the University of Edinburgh. He is a former high school science teacher and achieved his undergraduate education at UWC (BSc), his teaching credentials at UNISA (HED, BEd) and his senior postgraduate education in the USA (MS, Cornell; PhD Stanford)