Honorary Professor Pamela Christie
Honorary Professor & Honorary Professor
School of Education
Researcher biography
Pam Christie is Professor in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town. She has worked on post-apartheid education policy, as well as on school development and change, leadership, curriculum and pedagogy, and school desegregation. She is currently working on joint research projects on Reconciliation and Pedagogy in Australia and South Africa, and Schooling, Globalisation and Refugees in Queensland. Based in sociology of education, she teaches courses on educational change, globalisation and education, and international education and development. Professor Pam Christie has extensive international links, including a UNESCO Chair in Teacher Education for Diversity and Development.
Publications
Books
Hayes, Debra, Mills, Martin, Christie, Pam and Lingard, Bob (2020). Teachers and schooling making a difference: productive pedagogies, assessment and performance. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003117643
Ahluwalia, Pal, Atkinson, Stephen, Bishop, Peter, Christie, Pam, Hattam, Robert and Matthews, Julie (2012). Rethinking reconciliation and pedagogy in unsettling times. Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780203118986
Ahluwalia, Pal, Atkinson, Stephen, Bishop, Peter, Christie, Pam, Hattam, Robert and Matthews, Julie (2012). Reconciliation and pedagogy. Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780203118986
Christie, Pam (2008). Opening the doors of learning: changing schools in South Africa. Johannesburg, South Africa: Heinemann.
Hayes, Debra, Mills, Martin, Christie, Pam and Lingard, Bob (2006). Teachers and schooling making a difference: Productive pedagogies, assessment and performance. Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
Christie, Pam (2004). Complexity in school leadership: what does this mean for Catholic schools?. Johannesburg, South Africa: CIE Education Services.
Lingard, Bob, Hayes, Debra, Mills, Martin and Christie, Pam (2003). Leading learning: Making hope practical in schools. Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press.
Lingard, R. L., Ladwig, J., Mills, M. D., Hayes, D., Luke, A., Gore, J. and Christie, P. H. (2001). The Queensland School Reform Longitudinal Study: A Strategy for Shared Curriculum Leadership. Teachers' Manual. Brisbane: State of Queensland (Department of Education).
Book Chapters
Mc Kinney, Carolyn and Christie, Pam (2021). Introduction: conversations with teacher educators in coloniality. Decoloniality, language and literacy: conversations with teacher educators. (pp. 1-20) edited by Carolyn McKinney and Pam Christie. Bristol, United Kingdom: Channel View Publications.
Christie, Pam (2013). Inclusive education in South Africa: Achieving equity and majority rights. Inclusive Education. (pp. 160-168) Taylor and Francis.
Christie, Pam (2012). Beyond reconciliation: Reflections on South Africa’s truth and reconciliation commission and its implications for ethical pedagogy. Reconciliation and Pedagogy. (pp. 29-44) Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780203118986
Boege, V. and Christie, P. (2009). Learning in a post-conflict environment: The case of Bougainville. Learning to live together: Using distance education for community peacebuilding. (pp. 97-210) edited by Rawwida Baksh and Tanyss Munro. Vancouver, Canada: Commonwealth of Learning.
Christie, Pam (2009). Peace, reconciliation, and justice: Delivering the miracle in post-apartheid education. Peace Education in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies: Comparative Perspectives. (pp. 75-88) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230620421
Robinson, M. and Christie, P. (2008). South Africa. Teacher Education in the English-Speaking World: Past, Present, and Future. (pp. 137-154) edited by O’Donoghue, T. and Whitehead, C.. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing Inc.
Christie, P. H., Harley, K. and Penny, A. (2004). Case studies from sub-saharan Africa. International Handbook on the Continuing Professional Development of Teachers. (pp. 167-190) edited by Christopher Day and Judyth Sachs. England: Open University Press.
Carrim, N., Postma, D. and Christie, P. (2003). The Incorporation of colleges of education into universities in the provision of teacher education: The case of the Johannesburg College of Education and the University of the Witwatersrand. Changing Patterns of Teacher Education in South Africa: Policy, Practice and Prospects. (pp. xx-xx) edited by K. Lewin, Y. Sayed and M. Samuels. South Africa: Heinemann Publishers.
Christie, P. H. (2001). Changing cultures and schools in South Africa. Values, Culture and Education. (pp. 268-278) edited by J. Cairns, D. Lawton and R. Gardner. London: Kogan Page.
Journal Articles
Christie, Pam (2021). Colonial palimpsests in schooling: tracing continuity and change in South Africa. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 10 (1), 51-79.
Christie, Pam and McKinney, Carolyn (2017). Decoloniality and "Model C" schools: ethos, language and the protests of. Education as Change, 21 (3) #2332, 1-21. doi: 10.17159/1947-9417/2017/2332
Christie, Pam (2016). Educational change in post-conflict contexts: reflections on the South African experience 20 years later. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 14 (3), 434-446. doi: 10.1080/14767724.2015.1121379
Geelan, David, Christie, Pam, Mills, Martin, Keddie, Amanda, Renshaw, Peter and Monk, Sue (2015). Lessons from Alison: a narrative study of differentiation in classroom teaching. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 10 (1), 13-23. doi: 10.1080/22040552.2015.1084673
Sidhu, Ravinder and Christie, Pam (2014). Making space for an international branch campus: Monash University Malaysia. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 55 (2), 182-195. doi: 10.1111/apv.12052
Gowlett, Christina, Keddie, Amanda, Mills, Martin, Renshaw, Peter, Christie, Pam, Geelan, David and Monk, Sue (2014). Using Butler to understand the multiplicity and variability of policy reception. Journal of Education Policy, 30 (2), 149-164. doi: 10.1080/02680939.2014.920924
Sidhu, Ravinder and Christie, Pam (2014). Transnational higher education as a hybrid global/local space: a case study of a Malaysian-Australian joint venture. Journal of Sociology, 51 (2), 299-316. doi: 10.1177/1440783314521882
Mills, Martin, Monk, Sue, Keddie, Amanda, Renshaw, Peter, Christie, Pam, Geelan, David and Gowlett, Christina (2014). Differentiated learning: from policy to classroom. Oxford Review of Education, 40 (3), 331-348. doi: 10.1080/03054985.2014.911725
Christie, Pam (2013). Space, Place, and Social Justice: Developing a Rhythmanalysis of Education in South Africa. Qualitative Inquiry, 19 (10), 775-785. doi: 10.1177/1077800413503796
Sidhu, Ravinder, Taylor, Sandra and Christie, Pam (2011). Schooling and refugees: engaging with the complex trajectories of globalisation. Global Studies of Childhood, 1 (2), 92-103. doi: 10.2304/gsch.2011.1.2.92
Christie, Pam (2010). Landscapes of leadership in South African schools: Mapping the changes. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 38 (6), 694-711. doi: 10.1177/1741143210379062
Christie, Pam (2010). The complexity of human rights in global times: The case of the right to education in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, 30 (1), 3-11. doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2009.06.006
Hoadley, Ursula, Christie, Pam and Ward, Catherine L. (2009). Managing to learn: Instructional leadership in South African secondary schools. School Management and Leadership, 29 (4), 373-389. doi: 10.1080/13632430903152054
Ravinder, Sidhu and Christie, Pamela H. (2007). Spatialising the scholarly imagination: Globalisation, refugees and education. Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 4 (1), 7-17.
Christie, Pam and Sidhu, Ravinder (2006). Governmentality and 'fearless speech': framing the education of asylum seeker and refugee children in Australia. Oxford Review of Education, 32 (4), 449-465. doi: 10.1080/03054980600884177
Christie, Pamela (2006). Changing regimes: governmentality and education policy in post-apartheid South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, 26 (4), 373-381. doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2005.09.006
Christie, Pam (2005). Education for an ethical imagination. Social Alternatives, 24 (4), 39-44.
Christie, P. H. (2005). Towards an ethics of engagement in education in global times. Australian Journal of Education, 49 (3), 238-250. doi: 10.1177/000494410504900302
Christie, Pam and Limerick, Brigid (2004). Editorial Overview: Leadership as a field of study. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 25 (1), 3-6. doi: 10.1080/0159630042000178536
Fleisch, Brahm and Christie, Pamela (2004). Structural Change, Leadership and School Effectiveness/Improvement: Perspectives from South Africa. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 25 (1), 95-112. doi: 10.1080/0159630042000178509
Hayes, Debra, Christie, Pam, Mills, Martin and Lingard, Bob (2004). Productive leaders and productive leadership: Schools as learning organisations. Journal of Educational Administration, 42 (5), 520-538. doi: 10.1108/09578230410554043
Christie, Pam and Sidhu, Ravinder (2004). How we treat our strangers? Working in schools. Education Links, 68, 34-37.
Lingard, Bob and Christie, Pam (2003). Leading theory: Bourdieu and the field of educational leadership. An introduction and overview to this special issue. International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory & Practice, 6 (4), 317-333. doi: 10.1080/1360312032000150724
Christie, Pam and Sidhu, Ravinder (2002). Responding to globalisation: Refugees and the challenges facing Australian schools. Mots Pluriels, 21, 1-11.
Sidhu, Ravinder and Christie, Pam (2002). Sticks and stones will break my bones -- and words will harm too: Australia's provision of education for asylum seeker children in detention. Social Alternatives, 21 (4 (Spring)), 11-16.
Christie, P. H. (2002). Learning about leadership: Recent perspectives from education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 23 (1), 129-135. doi: 10.1080/01596300220123088
Christie, P. H. (2001). Improving school quality in South Africa: A study of schools that have succeeded against the odds. Journal of Education, 26, 40-65.
Christie, Pam (1998). Schools as (dis)organisations: The ‘breakdown of the culture of learning and teaching’ in South African schools. Cambridge Journal of Education, 28 (3), 283-300. doi: 10.1080/0305764980280303
Christie, Pam (1997). Global trends in local contexts: A South African perspective on competence debates. Discourse, 18 (1), 55-69. doi: 10.1080/0159630970180104
Christie, Pam (1996). Globalisation and the curriculum: Proposals for the Integration of education and training in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, 16 (4), 407-416. doi: 10.1016/S0738-0593(96)00061-2
Christie, Pam (1995). Transition tricks? policy models for school desegregation in south africa, 1990-94. Journal of Education Policy, 10 (1), 45-55. doi: 10.1080/0268093950100103
Christie, Pam (1994). South Africa in Transition: Educational Policies, 1990–-93. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 14 (2), 45-56. doi: 10.1080/0159630930140204
Christie, Pam (1992). From crisis to transformation: Education in post-apartheid South Africa. Australian Journal of Education, 36 (1), 38-52. doi: 10.1177/000494419203600105
Christie, Pam and Gordon, Adele (1992). Politics, Poverty and Education in Rural South Africa. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 13 (4), 399-418. doi: 10.1080/0142569920130401
Christie, Pam (1990). Reforming the Racial Curriculum: Curriculum Change in Desegregated Schools in South Africa. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 11 (1), 37-48. doi: 10.1080/0142569900110103
Christie, Pam and Collins, Colin (1982). Bantu Education: Apartheid ideology or labour reproduction?. Comparative Education, 18 (1), 59-75. doi: 10.1080/0305006820180107
Conference Papers
Christie, P. (2009). Getting schools to work: Achieving equity and quality in education in post-apartheid South Africa. African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific ( AFSAAP), Brisbane, Australia, 29 September - 2 October 2009.
Christie, P. (2007). Globalising the right to education: limits and possibilities.. The Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (ANZCIES) 35th Annual Conference: International Co-operation through Education, Auckland, New Zealand, 30 Nov -2 December 2007.
Christie, Pamela H. (2007). Peace, reconciliation and justice: Delivering the miracle in post-apartheid education. XIII World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, Sarajevo, 3-7 September 2007.
Christie, P. (2006). Globalisation and the 'knowledge society"' some implications for developing teachers for rural education in South Africa. 2nd KwaZulu Natal Teacher Development Conference, Durban, South Africa, February 2006.
Christie, Pamela H. (2006). The Right to Quality Education: Defining the Right to Education. 16th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (16CCEM), Cape Town, South Africa, 11-14 December, 2006.
Christie, P. H. (2005). Leading Learning. 16 February, 2005. Gauteng: MGSLG.
Christie. P (2005). Self and other: towards an ethics of engagement in education in global times. Comparative International Education and Society (CIES) Annual Conference, Stanford University, California, USA, 22-26 March 2005.
Christie, Pam (2005). Keynote address: Leadership: Ubuntu and an ethics of engagement in education. 7th World Convention of the International Confederation of Principals (ICP), Cape Town, 13 July 2005. Melbourne, Australia: ICP.
Christie, P. (2004). The suffering of the other: education, violence and an ethics of engagement. ANZCIES (32nd Annual Conference): Global pedagogies [electronic resource] : equity, access and democracy in education, Melbourne, 3-5 December, 2004. Melbourne: School of Education, The University.
Christie, Pam (2003). Globalisation, postcolonialism and development: reflections on postapartheid education restructuring in South Africa. Joint New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) & Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) International Conference, Auckland, New Zealand., Auckland, New Zealand, 30 November - 3 December 2003. AARE The Association for Active Educational Researchers.
Christie, P. (2002). Leading the field: Case studies of school leadership. AARE 2002 International Education Research Conference, Brisbane, 1-5 December 2002. Coldstream, Victoria: Australian Association for Research in Education.
Mills, M., Hayes, D. and Christie, P. (2002). Leading for learning: Productive leadership and productive pedagogies. Ninth International Literacy & Education Research Network Conference on Learning, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 16-20 July 2002. Beijing: Beijing Normal University.
Christie, P. H. (2001). Reforming education structures in the postcolonial world: The case of South Africa. Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education, Brisbane, Australia, 17-19 August, 2001. Brisbane, Australia: School of Education, University of Queensland.
Christie, P. H. (2000). Globalisation and the challenges for Catholic education. Catholic Schools and the Common Good, Johannesburg, 20-22 September 2000. Johannesburg: Centre for School Quality & Improvement.
Research Reports
Faller, P., Christie, P., Excel, L. and Livington, V. (2009). Implementation of the national curriculum statement in the foundation phase. South Africa: Gauteng Department of Education.
Christie, Pam, Butler, Dawn and Potterton, Mark (2007). Report of Ministerial Committee: Schools that Work. Republic of South Africe: South Africa Department of Education.
Mulcahy, J. and Christie, P. (2007). South Africa. Cumulative Case Consultation, Reflecting on Peace Practices. Boston, Massachusetts, USA : CDA-Collaborative Learning Projects.