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JOEL SAMOFF Curriculum Vitae

Addresses 3527 South Court Palo Alto CA 94306-4221 USA[+1] 650856-2326 [Voice + Telefax]African Studies Center Stanford University Stanford CA 94305-6045 USA

[+1] 650723-0295

Emailjoelsamoffstanfordedu

AcademicCentral High School Philadelphia PennsylvaniaNational Science Foundation Arts and Sciences Curriculum University of KansasAntioch College Yellow Springs Ohio

BA 1965 HistoryIncluded study Universiteacute de Neuchacirctel Neuchacirctel Switzerland 1963-1964Membership on governing student-faculty committees Library Student Personnel Educational Policy

University of Wisconsin Madison WisconsinMA 1967 Political ScienceAfrican Studies Certificate 1967PhD 1972 Political ScienceMembership on student-faculty committee on University Placement Interviews Modes of Response to Obstruction and

Related Matters President Wisconsin Africanists Association 1967-1968

University of PretoriaDEd (Honoris Causa) 2005

University of the Free StateDPhil (Honoris Causa) 2016

Fellowships Honors and GrantsAntioch College Scholar 1961-1965Wisconsin Ford Area Fellow 1965-1966 Fellow National Defense Education Act Foreign Language Program 1966-1968Fellow Foreign Area Fellowship Program 1968-1970HH Rackham Graduate School Faculty Fellowship and Grant 1973-1974University of Michigan Distinguished Service Award (for Outstanding Contribution to the Scholarly Life of the

University) 1978Spencer Foundation Grant 1980-1981Stanford University School of Education Award for Excellence in Teaching 1983Social Science Research Council Research Grant 1983-84Fulbright Senior Award for Research in Africa 1984-85Rockefeller Foundation Research Grant 1984-1986Digital Research Corporation Equipment Grants to School of Education Stanford University 1985IBM Equipment Grants to School of Education Stanford University 1985Stanford University Feminist Studies Program Instructional Development Support Grant 1985-1986IBM Equipment Grants to School of Education Stanford University 1985Stanford African Students Association Uncommon Man Award 1986Spencer Foundation Grant 1986-1988Grant The William and Flora Hewlett Endowment Fund for Area and International Studies and Research 1988Stanford University Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Faculty Grant for Undergraduate Research 2001University of Pittsburgh Institute of International Studies in Education Best Article Award 2013 (co-authored)Fellow South African Education Research Association 2015

JOEL SAMOFF Curriculum Vitae mdashPage 2

Professional AssociationsAfrican Association of Political ScienceAfrican Studies Association (Board of Directors 1982-1985 Herskovits Award Committee member 1980-1982 and

chair 1981-1982)American Educational Research AssociationAmerican Political Science AssociationAssociation of Concerned Africa Scholars (Board of Directors 1979ndash Research Chair 1981-83)Comparative and International Education Society (Nominations Committee 1991 Awards Committee 1994-1995

2015 Awards Committee Chair 1997-2000 Board of Directors 2000-2003 )International Political Science AssociationSouth African Education Research AssociationTanzania Historical Society

Languages FrenchSwahili

Fields of InterestAfrican PoliticsPolitical Economy of UnderdevelopmentComparative PoliticsEducation and DevelopmentPolitics and EducationPolitical SociologyPolitical Development and ModernizationPhilosophy of Social ScienceUrban Politics (Africa)


ProfessionalSeptember 1980 to present Stanford University

Adjunct Professor African Studies and School of Humanities and Sciences (2016ndash )Consulting Professor African Studies and School of Humanities and Sciences (1995ndash2016)Acting Professor History Department (2012)Acting Professor Department of Political Science (2006)Director Undergraduate African Studies Institute (1996 1999)Visiting Scholar African Studies (1988-1995)Acting Professor School of Education (1994)Associate Professor International Development Education (1980-1988)Chair Committee on African Studies and Director African Studies Center (1984-85)Acting Chair Committee on African Studies Acting Director African Studies Center and Acting Associate Director

Joint [Stanford and University of California Berkeley] Center for African Studies (1982 1983)Faculty Coordinator Institute Focus Africa Stanford Program in International and Cross-Cultural Education and Bay

Area Global Education Project (Summer 1982)Research Associate Department of Education University of Dar es Salaam (1983-1985)

1993-2001 2004-2008 Working Group on Education Sector Analysis (Association for the Development of Education in

Africa) and United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural OrganizationPrincipal Consultant and Senior Project Adviser (1993ndash2001) Member Steering Committee (2004ndash2008)

1993 University of California at Los AngelesVisiting Professor Graduate School of Education

1990-1944 International Labour OfficeUnited Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization Task Force on

Austerity Adjustment and Human ResourcesPrincipal Consultant

1989-1990 University of California Santa BarbaraVisiting Associate Professor Department of Political Science

September 1970 to August 1980 University of Michigan

Assistant Professor Department of Political ScienceAssistant Professor Center for Afroamerican and African StudiesAssistant Research Scientist Center for Research on Economic DevelopmentLecturer Center for Afroamerican and African StudiesLecturer Residential CollegeFaculty Counselor College of Literature Science and the ArtsResearch Associate Department of Political Science University of Dar es Salaam (1973-1974)

June 1973 to August 1975 University of Zambia

Lecturer Department of African StudiesLecturer Department of Political and Administrative StudiesCo-Chairman Social Science Foundation Program

Summer 1972 University of Wisconsin

Visiting Assistant Professor Institute on Law and Development Law SchoolJuly 1968 to December 1969 University of Dar es Salaam

Research Associate Department of Political Science Tutor Institute of Adult EducationJanuary 1966 to May 1968 University of Wisconsin Memorial Library

Cataloguer Searcher Assistant to Africana Bibliographer (part time)June to August 1965 and 1966 Farm and Wilderness Camps Vermont

Waterfront Director Senior Counselor1961 to 1963 as part of the Antioch College Cooperative Program

Auxiliary offset printing (Switzerland) Waiter (Switzerland) Construction laborer (Switzerland) Assistant to theManager ILGWU Local 190 (Philadelphia) Copyboy reporting Washington Post (Washington) Assistant FixtureSupervisor Macyrsquos (New York)


Books and Monographs

Tanzania Local Politics and the Structure of Power (Madison University of Wisconsin Press 1974)

Cell Leaders in Tanzania Agents of Order and Change (co-edited with Jean F OBarr) (Nairobi East African PublishingHouse 1976)

Swedish Public Administration Assistance in Tanzania (co-authored with Marc Wuyts) (Stockholm Swedish InternationalDevelopment Authority 19881989) [Education Division Documents No 43]

South Africa at Stanford A Survey of Resources for Learning and Teaching (Stanford CA Stanford University 1989)

Education and Social Transition in the Third World (co-authored with Martin Carnoy) (Princeton Princeton UniversityPress 1990)

Education for What Education for Whom Guidelines for National Policy Reports in Education (UNESCO EducationalPolicies and Management Unit 1991)

ldquoEducation and Socialist (R)Evolutionrdquo (editor) Special Issue of the Comparative Education Review 351(February 1991)

Microcomputers in African Development Critical Perspectives (co-edited with Suzanne M Grant Lewis) (BoulderWestview Press 1992)

Toward Education for All A Development Brief for Education Culture and Training (compiler and coordinator)(Windhoek Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers 1993)

After Apartheid What A Review of Externally Initiated Commissioned and Supported Studies of Education in SouthAfrica (Paris Donors to African Education Working Group on Education Sector Analysis and UNESCO 1994)

Coping With Crisis Austerity Adjustment and Human Resources (editor) (London Cassell 1994)

Agitators Incubators AdvisersmdashWhat Roles for the EPUs (Stockholm Swedish International Development CooperationAgency 1996)

Analyses Agendas and Priorities in African Education A Review of Externally Initiated Commissioned and SupportedStudies of Education in Africa 1990-1994 (with NDri Theacuteregravese Assieacute-Lumumba) (Paris UNESCO 1996)

Partnerships for Capacity Building and Quality Improvements in Education (editor) (Paris Association for theDevelopment of Education in Africa 1999)

Investing in People Developing a Country Higher Education for Development in Namibia (Coordinator and compiler)(Windhoek Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers 1999)

From Manpower Planning to the Knowledge Era World Bank Policies on Higher Education in Africa (co-authored withBidemi Carrol) (Paris UNESCO Forum on Higher Education Research and Knowledge 2004)[httpunesdocunescoorgimages0013001347134782eopdf]

The World Bank and Education Critiques and Alternatives (co-edited with Steven J Klees and Nelly P Stromquist)(Rotterdam Sense Publishers 2012)

Education for All A Global Commitment Without Global Funding (co-authored with Margaret Irving) (LondonEducation Support Programme Open Society Foundations ESP Working Paper Series No 60 2014)[httpwwwperiglobalorgrole-statedocumenteducation-all-global-commitment-without-global-funding]

Capturing Complexity and Context Evaluating Aid to Education (co-authored with Jane Leer and Michelle Reddy)(Stockholm Expert Group for Aid Studies 2016)[httpebasewp-contentuploads201605Rapport-201603-Capturing-complexity-and-contextpdf ]


Articles and Chapters

ldquoCell Leaders in Tanzania A Review of Recent Researchrdquo Taamuli 41(December 1973)63-75

ldquoThe Local Politics of Underdevelopmentrdquo (co-authored with Rachel Samoff) The African Review 61(1976)69-97

ldquoAgents of ChangemdashCell Leaders in an Urban Settingrdquo Chapter in OBarr and Samoff

ldquoCell Leaders in Tanzaniardquo Chapter in OBarr and Samoff

ldquoThe Local Politics of Underdevelopmentrdquo (co-authored with Rachel Samoff) Politics and Society 64(1976)397-432

ldquoTransnationals Industrialization and Black Consciousness Change in South Africardquo Journal of Southern African AffairsIII4(October 1978)489-520

ldquoThe Bureaucracy and The Bourgeoisie Decentralization and Class Structure in Tanzaniardquo Comparative Studies in Societyand History 211(January 1979) 30-62

ldquoEducation in Tanzania Class Formation and Reproductionrdquo Journal of Modern African Studies XVII1(March1979)47-69

ldquoBeyond Tanzaphobia The Progress of Ujamaardquo ASA Review of Books 5(1979)163-169

ldquoUnderdevelopment and its Grass Roots in Africardquo Canadian Journal of African Studies 141(1980)5-36

ldquoTarzan Terrs and Liberation A Challenge to TeachersmdashUsing Films on Africardquo Teaching Political Science 81(October1980)41-60

ldquoTransnationals Industrialization and Black Consciousness Change in South Africardquo in David Wiley and Allen F Isaacmaneditors Southern Africa Society Economy and Liberation (East Lansing Michigan State University 1981) pp251-283

ldquoCrises and Socialism in Tanzaniardquo Journal of Modern African Studies XIX2(June 1981)279-306

ldquoEducation and Transformation in Tanzaniardquo Issue XI34(Fall-Winter 1981)22-26

ldquoClass Class Conflict and the State in Africardquo Political Science Quarterly 971(Spring 1982)105-127

ldquoSoweto and Protest in South Africardquo Mawazo I1(April 1982)16-1720

ldquoOn Class Paradigm and African Politicsrdquo Africa Today 292(1982)41-50

ldquoPluralism and Conflict in Africa Ethnicity Interests and Class in Tanzaniardquo Civilisations XXXII2(1982)-XXXIII1(1983)97-134

ldquoSocialist Programs and Strugglerdquo Mawazo 12(May 1983)18-21

ldquoBureaucrats Politicians and Power in Tanzania The Institutional Context of Class Strugglerdquo Journal of African Studies103(Fall 1983)84-96

ldquoSchooling and Socialism Educational Reform in Tanzaniardquo Genegraveve-Afrique XXI1(1983)55-72

ldquoSelf-Reliance in Educationrdquo International Encyclopedia of Education (Oxford Pergamon Press 1985)

ldquoRevolution by Education in Tanzania A Reexaminationrdquo Papers in Education and Development 10(February 1985)81-83

ldquoSingle-Party Competitive Elections in Tanzaniardquo in Fred M Hayward editor Elections in Independent Africa (BoulderWestview Press 1987) pp 149-186

ldquoSchool Expansion in Tanzania Private Initiatives and Public Policyrdquo Comparative Education Review 313(August 1987)333-360

ldquoPopular Initiatives and Local Government in Tanzaniardquo Journal of Developing Areas 24(October 1989)1-18

ldquoModernizing a Socialist Vision Education in Tanzaniardquo in Martin Carnoy and Joel Samoff Education and SocialTransition in the Third World (Princeton Princeton University Press 1990) pp 209-273

ldquoEducation and Social Transformation Theory and Practicerdquo (co-authored with Martin Carnoy) in Martin Carnoy and JoelSamoff Education and Social Transition in the Third World (Princeton Princeton University Press 1990) pp361-380

ldquoThe Politics of Privatization in Tanzaniardquo International Journal of Educational Development 101(1990)1-15

ldquoA durabilidade da modernizaccedilatildeordquo Revista Internacional de Estudos Africanos12-13 (Jan-Dez1990)331-353

ldquoDecentralization The Politics of Interventionismrdquo Development and Change 213(July 1990)513-530

Articles and Chapters (continued)


ldquoEducational Reform in Tanzania Schools Skills and Social Transformationrdquo in Bill Nasson and John Samuel editorsEducation From Poverty to Liberty (Cape Town David Philip 1990) pp 132-140

ldquoSocialist Educationrdquo Comparative Education Review 351(February 1991)1-22

ldquoLocal Initiatives and National Policies The Politics of Private Schooling in Tanzaniardquo International Journal of EducationalResearch 155(1991)377-391 [issue on Private Versus Public Education An International Perspective edited by EmmanuelJimenez and Marlaine E Lockheed]

ldquoTheory and Practice in the Analysis of Tanzanian Liberalization A Commentrdquo in Horace Campbell and Howard Steineditors Tanzania and the IMF The Dynamics of Liberalization (Harare SAPES Educational Trust 1991) pp226-246

ldquoEducation and Socialism in the Third World A Responserdquo (co-authored with Martin Carnoy) Canadian and InternationalEducation 202(1991)75-80

ldquoThe Facade of Precision in Education Data and Statistics A Troubling Example from Tanzaniardquo Journal of ModernAfrican Studies 294(December 1991)669-689

ldquoEducation and Development Deconstructing a Myth to Construct Realityrdquo (co-authored with John Metzler and Tahir Salie)in Ann Seidman and Frederick Anang editors 21st Century Africa Towards a New Vision of Self-SustainableDevelopment (Trenton Africa World Press 1992) pp 101-147

ldquoIntroductionrdquo (co-authored with Suzanne Grant Lewis) in Suzanne Grant Lewis and Joel Samoff editors Microcomputersin African Development Critical Perspectives (Boulder Westview 1992) pp 1-24

ldquoThe IntellectualFinancial Complex of Foreign Aidrdquo Review of African Political Economy 53(March 1992) 60-75

ldquoTheory and Practice in the Analysis of Tanzanian Liberalization A Commentrdquo in Horace Campbell and Howard Steineditors Tanzania and the IMF The Dynamics of Liberalization (Boulder Westview Press 1992) pp 171-188

ldquoTanzaniardquo The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (Oxford Oxford University Press 1993) pp 898-900

ldquoThe Reconstruction of Schooling in Africardquo Comparative Education Review 372(May 1993)181-222

ldquoTriumphalism Tarzan and Other Influences Teaching About Africa in the 1990srdquo in Patricia Alden David Lloyd andAhmed I Samatar editors African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum (Boulder Lynne Rienner Publishers1994) pp 35-83

ldquoEducation Policy Formation in Tanzania Self-Reliance and Dependencerdquo in David R Evans editor Education PolicyFormation in Africa A Comparative Study of Five Countries (Washington US Agency for InternationalDevelopment 1994) pp 85-126

ldquoCrisis and Adjustment Understanding National Responsesrdquo in Joel Samoff editor Coping With Crisis AusterityAdjustment and Human Resources (London Cassell 1994) pp 5-27

ldquoFrom Planning to Marketing Making Education and Training Policy in Tanzaniardquo (with Suleman Sumra) in Joel Samoffeditor Coping With Crisis Austerity Adjustment and Human Resources (London Cassell 1994) pp 134-172

ldquoResponses to Crisis (Re)Setting the Education and Training Policy Agendardquo in Joel Samoff editor Coping With CrisisAusterity Adjustment and Human Resources (London Cassell 1994) pp 219-253

ldquoInternational Cooperationrdquo (co-authored with Lucila Jallade and Eddy Lee) in Joel Samoff editor Coping With CrisisAusterity Adjustment and Human Resources (London Cassell 1994) pp 254-266

ldquoThe Reconstruction of Schooling in Africardquo in John J Lane editor Ferment in Education A Look Abroad (ChicagoUniversity of Chicago Press 1995) pp 9-57

ldquoTroublesome Issues in the Structural Adjustment of Educational Researchrdquo NORRAG News 18(November 1995)21-23

ldquoAnalyses Agendas and Priorities in African Educationrdquo (with NDri Theacuteregravese Assieacute-Lumumba) Journal of EducationalPlanning and Administration IX4(October 1995)345-359

ldquoTowards a Framework for the Analysis of Aid-Related Consulting for Education and Development A Working GroupReportrdquo (co-authored with Lene Buchert Kai-Ming Cheng Uthai Dulyakasem Lavinia Gasperini Rosemary Prestonand Jandhyala B G Tilak) in Lene Buchert and Kenneth King editors Consultancy and Research in InternationalEducation The New Dynamics (Bonn Deutsche Stiftung fuumlr Internationale Entwicklung 1996) pp 83-90



ldquoThe Structural Adjustment of Education Research Reflectionsrdquo in Lene Buchert and Kenneth King editors Consultancyand Research in International Education The New Dynamics (Bonn Deutsche Stiftung fuumlr InternationaleEntwicklung 1996) pp 65-82

ldquoChaos and Certainty in Developmentrdquo World Development 244(April 1996)611-633

ldquoWhich Priorities and Strategies for Educationrdquo International Journal of Educational Development 163(July 1996)249-271

ldquoAid and EducationmdashTransforming the Policy Making Processrdquo in Birgit Brock-Utne and Tove Nagel editors The Role ofAid in the Development of Education For All (Oslo University of Oslo Institute for Educational Research Report No8 1996) pp 10-72

ldquoAfrican Education and Development Crisis Triumphalism Research Loss of Visionrdquo Alberta Journal of EducationalResearch XLII2(June 1996)121-147

ldquoEducation sector analysis in Africa limited national control and even less national ownershiprdquo International Journal ofEducational Development 194-5(July-September 1999)249-272

ldquoInstitutionalizing International Influencerdquo in Robert F Arnove and Carlos Alberto Torres editors Comparative EducationThe Dialectic of the Global and the Local (Boulder Rowman amp Littlefield 1999) pp 51-89

ldquoNo Teacher Guide No Textbooks No Chairs Contending with Crisis in African Educationrdquo in Robert F Arnove andCarlos Alberto Torres editors Comparative Education The Dialectic of the Global and the Local (Boulder Rowmanamp Littlefield 1999) pp 393-431

ldquoCooperation But Limited Control and Little Ownershiprdquo in Partnerships for Capacity Building and QualityImprovements in Education (Paris Association for the Development of Education in Africa 1999) pp 175-204

ldquoiquestCuaacuteles son las Prioridades y Estrategias para la Educacioacuten Irdquo Revista Cubana de Educacioacuten Superior XIX1(1999)3-31

ldquoiquestCuaacuteles son las Prioridades y Estrategias para la Educacioacuten IIrdquo Revista Cubana de Educacioacuten Superior XIX2(1999)3-25

ldquoKnowledge Management Systems On the Promise and Actual Forms of Information Technologiesrdquo (co-authored with NellyP Stromquist) Compare 303(2000)323-332

ldquolsquoEducation for Allrsquo in Africa but Education Systems that Serve Few Wellrdquo Perspectives in Education 191(March2001)5ndash28

ldquoTanzaniardquo The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (Oxford Oxford University Press Second Edition 2001) pp826-828

ldquoManaging Knowledge and Storing Wisdom New Forms of Foreign Aidrdquo (co-authored with Nelly P Stromquist)Development and Change 324(September 2001)631-656

ldquoKnowledge Banks and Gateways The Changing Forms of Foreign Aid and Influencerdquo ACAS Bulletin 6263(Spring2002)6-17

ldquoSector-Based Development Cooperation Critical Issuesrdquo in Nordic Solidarity Conference on Education andDevelopment Co-operation (Oslo Nordic Council of Ministers 2002)

ldquoKnowledge Banks and Gateways The Changing Forms of Foreign Aid and Influencerdquo NORRAG News 30(August2002)39-43

ldquoInstitutionalizing International Educationrdquo Safundi 10 (April 2003) [wwwsafundicomissue10aspwwwsafundicompapersasplop=samoff]

ldquoSector-Based Development Cooperation Evolving Strategies Persisting Problemsrdquo in Jan Olsson and Lennart Wohlgemutheditors Dialogue in Pursuit of Development (Uppsala Nordic Africa Institute 2003) pp 286-301

ldquoAnalyses Agendas and Priorities in African Educationrdquo (with NDri Theacuteregravese Assieacute-Lumumba) in Jandhyala B G Tilakeditor Education Society and Development National and International Perspectives (New Delhi APH PublishingCo 2003)

ldquoInstitutionalizing International Influencerdquo in Robert F Arnove and Carlos Alberto Torres editors Comparative EducationThe Dialectic of the Global and the Local (Boulder Rowman amp Littlefield Second Edition 2003) pp 52-91 [revised]



ldquoNo Teacher Guide No Textbooks No Chairs Contending with Crisis in African Educationrdquo in Robert F Arnove andCarlos Alberto Torres editors Comparative Education The Dialectic of the Global and the Local (Boulder Rowmanamp Littlefield Second Edition 2003) pp 409-445 [revised]

ldquoSektorstoslashtte Strategiene Skifter Problemene Bestaringrrdquo in Kunnskap Makt Og FrigjoslashringmdashTekster Om Utdanning OgUtvikling (Oslo Studentenes og Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond (SAIH) 2003) pp 242-258

ldquoThe Promise of Partnership and Continuities of Dependence External Support to Higher Education in Africardquo (with BidemiCarrol) African Studies Review 471(April 2004)67-199

ldquoFrom Funding Projects to Supporting Sectors Observations on the Aid Relationship in Burkina Fasordquo International Journalof Educational Development 244(July 2004)397-427

ldquoScaling Up by Focusing Down Creating Space to Expand Education Reformrdquo (co-authored with E Molapi Sebatane andMartial Dembeacuteleacute) in Reaching Out Reaching All Sustaining Effective Policy and Practice for Education in Africaand Promising Educational Responses to HIVAIDS (Paris Association for the Development of Education in Africa2005) pp 91-135

ldquoThe Pedagogy of Transformationrdquo Perspectives on Education 232(June 2005)121-124

ldquoThe Pursuit of Effective External Support and Persisting External InfluencemdashDirect Indirect and Negotiatedrdquo A ChangingLandscape Making Support to Higher Education and Research in Developing Countries More Effective Ad Boerenand Gerrit Holtland editors (The Hague Nuffic 2005) [httpwwwnufficnlpdfosemsamoffpdf]

ldquoInfluencemdashDirect Indirect and Negotiated The World Bank and Higher Education in Africardquo (co-authored with BidemiCarrol) in Guy Neave editor Knowledge Power and Dissent Critical Perspectives on Higher Education andResearch in Knowledge Society (Paris UNESCO Publishing 2006) pp 133-180

ldquoInstitutionalizing International Influencerdquo in Robert F Arnove and Carlos Alberto Torres editors Comparative EducationThe Dialectic of the Global and the Local (Boulder Rowman amp Littlefield Third Edition 2007) pp 47-77

ldquoEducation for All in Africa Still a Distant Dreamrdquo (with Bidemi Carrol) in Robert F Arnove and Carlos Alberto Torreseditors Comparative Education The Dialectic of the Global and the Local (Boulder Rowman amp Littlefield ThirdEdition 2007) pp 357-388

ldquoEducation Quality The Disabilities of Aidrdquo International Review of Education 535-6(2007)485-507

ldquoEveryone Has the Right to Educationrdquo African Studies Review 511(April 2008)105-118

ldquoBantu Education Peoplersquos Education Outcomes-Based Education Whither Education in South Africardquo in Everard Webereditor Educational Change in South Africa Reflections on Local Realities Practices and Reforms (RotterdamSense Publishers 2008) pp ix-xvi

ldquoForeign Aid to Education Managing Global Transfers and Exchangesrdquo in Linda Chisholm and Gita Steiner-Khamsi editorsSouth-South Cooperation in Education and Development (New York Teachers College Press 2009) pp 123-156

lsquoGoing to Scalersquo Nurturing the Local Roots of Education Innovation in Africa (co-authored with Martial Dembeacuteleacute and EMolapi Sebatane) (Bristol University of Bristol EdQual Working Paper 28 2011) [httpwwwedqualorgpublicationsworkingpaperedqualwp28]

ldquoMore of the Same Will Not Do Learning without Learning in the World Banks 2020 Education Strategyrdquo in Steven JKlees Joel Samoff and Nelly P Stromquist editors The World Bank and Education Critiques and Alternatives(Rotterdam Sense Publishers 2012) pp 109-121

ldquolsquoResearch Shows That rsquo Creating the Knowledge Environment for Learning for Allrdquo in Steven J Klees Joel Samoff andNelly P Stromquist editors The World Bank and Education Critiques and Alternatives (Rotterdam SensePublishers 2012) pp 143-157

ldquoCrossing Borders Research in Comparative and International Educationrdquo (co-authored with Jesse Foster and Nii AntiayeAddy) International Journal of Educational Development 32 6 (November 2012) 711-732[httpdxdoiorg101016jijedudev201112003] (University of Pittsburgh Institute of International Studies inEducation Best Article Award 2013)

ldquoScaling Up by Focusing Down Creating Space and Capacity to Extend Education Reform in Africardquo (co-authored withMartial Dembeacuteleacute and E Molapi Sebatane) in Leon Tikly and Angeline M Barrett editors Education Quality and SocialJustice in the South Challenges for policy practice and research (London Routledge 2012)



ldquoInstitutionalizing International Influencerdquo In Robert F Arnove Carlos Alberto Torres and Stephen Franz editorsComparative Education The Dialectic of the Global and the Local (Lanham MD Rowman amp Littlefield Fourthedition 2013) 55-87

ldquoEducation for All in Africa Not Catching Up but Setting the Pacerdquo (with Bidemi Carrol) in Robert F Arnove CarlosAlberto Torres and Stephen Franz editors Comparative Education The Dialectic of the Global and the Local(Lanham MD Rowman amp Littlefield Fourth Edition 2013) 403-443

Radio Television Internet (Selected)ldquoOil Africa and the USrdquo Africa Today KPFA Radio August 2003ldquoAid Dependence and Development in Africardquo KCSB February 2007ldquoCowboy Capitalism in Africardquo KCSB October 2008Who You Are Is So Loud I Cannot Hear What You Are Saying (EthicsNoon Stanford University 10 February 2012)

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=NDPBiZ0k7Ec Education for All Who Learns Who Pays and Why (Privatisation in Education Research Initiative Summer School on

Globalisation Regionalisation and Privatisation of Education 2012 httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=08MKWikmQJs ldquoDebating Privatisation in Educationrdquo (Privatisation in Education Research Initiative 2012)

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xRRA07v8hyg Re-thinking Evaluations in Aid to Education FreshEd Podcast Comparative and International Education Society (FreshEd

58 30 January 2017) httpwwwfreshedpodcastcomjoelsamoff

Subject of Review ArticleJames R Scarritt ldquoRelating Classes and Politics The Contribution of Joel Samoff to the Study of Africardquo Africa Today

292(1982)31-41

Editorial ResponsibilitiesAfrican Studies Review Editorial Board 1988ndash1992Comparative Education Review

Guest Editor for Special Issue on Education and Socialist (R)Evolution 1990Editorial Advisory Board 1998ndash2003 2003ndash

Development and Change Advisory Board 1995ndash2008International Bureau of Education UNESCO Book Series 2017ndashInternational Journal of Educational Development North America Editor 1996ndash2013 Advisory Board 2013ndashJournal of Educational Research in Africa Editorial Board 2008ndash Southern African Review of Education Editorial Advisory Board 2007ndash

Book Reviews in

African Affairs

Africana Journal

African Economic History

African Social Research

American Historical Review

American Political Science Review

ASA Review of Books

Comparative Education Review

International Journal of AfricanHistorical Studies

International Migration Review

Journal of Commonwealth and

Comparative Politics

Journal of Developing Areas

Journal of Politics

Political Science Quarterly

Science and Society

Reports

The State in Post-Colonial AfricaSwedish International Development Authority Stockholm September 1987

Decentralization in Africa Specifying Who RulesmdashA Critical Review of Recent Literature (co-authored with Jonathan Jansen)prepared for the Swedish International Development Authority Stockholm June 1988

Project Study on the Future Development of Swedish Public Administration Assistance in Tanzania (co-authored with Marc Wuyts)A Report to the Ministry of Finance Economic Affairs and Planning Tanzania and the Swedish InternationalDevelopment Authority December 1988 (Team Leader)

Reports (continued)

JOEL SAMOFF Curriculum Vitae mdash0

No Teacher Guide No Textbooks No Chairs An Analytic Overview of Recent Education Assistance Agency Africa Studiesprepared for the Operational Policy and Sector Analysis Division Bureau for Coordination of Operational ActivitiesUNESCO September 1989

Austerity Adjustment and Human Resources The Role of ILO and UNESCO prepared for the Interagency Task Force onAusterity Adjustment and Human Resources of the International Labour Office and the United Nations EducationalScientific and Cultural Organisation UNESCO April 1990

More Less None Human Resource Development Responses to Economic Constraint prepared for the Interagency Task Force onAusterity Adjustment and Human Resources of the International Labour Office and the United Nations EducationalScientific and Cultural Organisation UNESCO May 1990

Education for What Education for Whom Guidelines for National Education Policy Reports prepared for the Educational Policiesand Management Unit UNESCO for its Project on Education Policy Analysis and Reviews in the LDCs March 1991

Self Reliance and Dependence in Tanzanian Education prepared for the Project on the Education Policy Process in AfricaDonors Group to African Education August 1991

Land and Computers in Botswana An Evaluation of a Pilot Land Inventory Project prepared for the Swedish InternationalDevelopment Authority and the Ministry of Local Government and Lands Botswana October 1991 (Team Leader)

Defining What Is and What Is Not An Issue An Analysis of Assistance Agency Africa Education Sector Studies Seminar on theMonitoring and Evaluation of Education Systems Swedish International Development Authority January 1992

The Facade of Precision in Education Data and Statistics A Troubling Example Seminar on the Monitoring and Evaluation ofEducation Systems Swedish International Development Authority January 1992

Which Counting to Count On Approaches Approximations and Frustrations in Monitoring Education Systems Seminar on theMonitoring and Evaluation of Education Systems Swedish International Development Authority January 1992

Advisers and their Advice A Review of Recent Major Studies of Education in Namibia prepared for the Swedish InternationalDevelopment Authority and the Ministry of Education and Culture Namibia February 1992

Preparation of an Education Development Brief for NamibiamdashPhase I Refining the Scope prepared for the Ministry of Educationand Culture Namibia February 1992

From Lighting a Torch on Kilimanjaro to Surviving in a Shantytown Education and Financial Crisis in Tanzania prepared for theInteragency Task Force on Austerity Adjustment and Human Resources of the International Labour Office and theUnited Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation March 1992

Preparation of a Development Brief for Education Culture and TrainingmdashPhase II Defining the Scope prepared for the Ministry ofEducation and Culture Namibia April 1992

Preparation of a Development Brief for Education Culture and TrainingmdashStatus Report prepared for the Ministry of Educationand Culture Namibia April 1992

Toward Education for All A Development Brief for Education Culture and Training draft prepared for the Ministry of Educationand Culture Namibia September 1992

Toward Education for All A Development Brief for Education Culture and Training prepared for the Ministry of Education andCulture Namibia December 1992 Adopted by Parliament March 1993

From Planning to Marketing Making Education and Training Policy in Tanzania prepared for the Interagency Task Force onAusterity Adjustment and Human Resources of the International Labour Office and the United Nations EducationalScientific and Cultural Organisation March 1993

Responses to Crisis (Re)Setting the Education and Training Policy Agenda prepared for the Interagency Task Force on AusterityAdjustment and Human Resources of the International Labour Office and the United Nations Educational Scientific andCultural Organisation March 1993

Anti-Apartheid and Development A Review of Swedish Support to the Education of South Africans prepared for the SwedishInternational Development Authority (co-authored with Zelda Groener and Ihron Rensburg) September 1993

Anti-Apartheid and Development Interim Recommendations prepared for the Swedish International Development Authority(co-authored with Zelda Groener and Ihron Rensburg) January 1994

Donor Cooperation and Coordination in Education in South Africa prepared for the Division for Policy and Sector AnalysisUnited Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (co-authored with Baudouin Duvieusart) May 1994

Reports (continued)


After Apartheid What A Review of Externally Initiated Commissioned and Supported Studies of Education in South Africaprepared for the Donors to African Education Working Group on Education Sector Analysis and the Division for Policyand Sector Analysis United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation June 1994

Contested Transitions A Review of Swedish Support to the Education of South AfricansmdashFinal Report prepared for the SwedishInternational Development Authority (co-authored with Zelda Groener and Ihron Rensburg) September 1994

Analyses Agendas and Priorities in African Education A Review of Externally Initiated Commissioned and Supported Studies ofEducation in Africa 1990-1994 prepared for the Donors to African Education Working Group on Education SectorAnalysis and the Division for Policy and Sector Analysis United Nations Educational Scientific and CulturalOrganisation December 1994

Agitators Incubators AdvisersmdashWhat Roles for the EPUs An Evaluation of South African Education Policy Units Supported bySweden prepared for the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries March 1995

Education Sector Studies and Development Dialogues Products and Process prepared for the Swedish International DevelopmentAuthority for a Seminar on Issues in Education Sector Analysis Copenhagen April 1995

Current Trends in Africa Education Aid Policies and Practices Observations prepared for the Swedish InternationalDevelopment Authority May 1995

Analyses Agendas and Priorities in African Education A Review of Externally Initiated Commissioned and Supported Studies ofEducation in Africa 1990-1994 (Revised) prepared for the Association for the Development of African Education WorkingGroup on Education Sector Analysis and the Division for Policy and Sector Analysis United Nations EducationalScientific and Cultural Organisation May 1995

Analyses Agendas and Priorities in African Education A Review of Externally Initiated Commissioned and Supported Studies ofEducation in Africa 1990-1994 (Revised) prepared for the Association for the Development of African Education WorkingGroup on Education Sector Analysis and the Division for Policy and Sector Analysis United Nations EducationalScientific and Cultural Organisation September 1995

Frameworks South African Education and Training Policy Documents 1994-1996 prepared for the Macro Education PolicyUnit University of Durban-Westville South Africa September 1996

Footprints in the Sand or Tracks in the MudmdashEvaluation Strategies A Conceptual Overviewrdquo prepared for the Working Group onEducation Sector Analysis (Association for the Development of African Education and UNESCO Division for theReconstruction and Development of Education Systems) April 1997

Reaction and Initiative A Review of Strategies and RolesmdashBureau of Educational Research and Evaluation University of Dar esSalaam prepared for the Ministry of Education and Culture Tanzania and the Bureau of Educational Research andEvaluation University of Dar es Salaam July 1997

Investing in People Developing a Country Higher Education for Development in Namibia prepared for the Ministry of HigherEducation Vocational Training Science and Technology May 1997 September 1997 final draft May 1998

Whose Sector Programme Whose Responsibility Observations from Recent Education Sector Analyses in Africa prepared for theSwedish International Development Cooperation Agency Maputo Mozambique September 1997

Cooperation But Limited Control and Little Ownership Observations on Education Sector Studies in Africa 1990ndash1994 preparedfor the Working Group on Education Sector Analysis (Association for the Development of African Education andUNESCO Division for the Reconstruction and Development of Education Systems) August 1997

Education and Culture (co-authored with Fay Chung Patrick Seyon Jeanne Toungara and Sheila Walker) Paper prepared forthe National Summit on Africa March 1998

Framework for Initial ActivitiesmdashEducation Sector Analysis in Mozambique A Self-Reflective Approach prepared for Danida andthe Government of Mozambique May 1998

Integrating External Interests and National Ownership Reviewing Agency Education Sector Study Guidelines developed for theWorking Group on Education Sector Analysis of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa andUNESCO Working Group Lead Agency May 1998

Issues in the Eritrean Education Sector Programme Support Danida and the Ministry of Education Eritrea June 1998

Rehabilitation of Education Systems in Africa Prepared for the Office of the Special Coordinator for Africa and the LeastDeveloped Countries United Nations June 1999

Partnerships for Capacity Building and Quality Improvements in Education [Editor] (Paris Association for the Development ofEducation in Africa 1999)

Reports (continued)


When Progress is Process Evaluating Aid to Basic Education Issues and Strategies prepared for the Consultative Group ofEvaluative Departments [12 funding and technical assistance agencies coordinated by The Netherlands] February 2001

Perspectives on UNICEFmdashin Education Evaluation Reports prepared for UNICEF Education Section New York April 2004

From Evaluation to Policy and Practice Aid and Education Report on the International Colloquium The Hague 22ndash23 March 2004[Editor] (The Hague Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2004)

Consensus Legitimacy and Critique in Joint Evaluations An Analysis of Local Solutions to Global Challenges Towards EffectivePartnership in Basic Education [co-authored with Ted Kliest Ted Freeman and Sheila Dohoo Faure] (The Hague Policyand Operations Evaluation Department Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2005)

Imaginative Innovations and Muddling Through in Joint Evaluations Observations drawn from Local Solutions to GlobalChallenges Towards Effective Partnership in Basic Education (Toronto Joint Conference of the Canadian EvaluationSociety and the American Evaluation Association October 2005)

Education Trends in East and Southern Africa Development and Dependence SNV East and Southern Africa May 2006

Post-Independence Reforms to Attain UPE in Benin Cameroon Guinea and Tanzania and their Effects on Post-Primary Education(co-authored with Ibrahima Bah-Lalya A Tidjane Diallo and JP Lefoka) May 2008

Transition Articulation among Non-Formal Primary Secondary and Tertiary Education Lessons from the Gabon Mauritius andNigeria Peer Reviews A WGESA Contribution to the ADEA 2008 Biennial Synthesis of the Country Study Reports (co-authoredwith I Bah-Lalya JP Lefoka KS Sukon) May 2008

Tensions and Opportunities Supporting Research on Education and Development [co-authored with Michele Schweisfurth](Glasgow and London Department for International Development April 2009)

Disruptive Change Challenges and Opportunities OER Africa Assessment of Organisational Effectiveness (Johannesburg OERAfrica January 2011)

Rethinking Funding Education for All (co-authored with Margaret Irving) (London Education Support Programme OpenSociety Foundation 2014)

Research and Writing in Progress

From Philanthropy to Partnership Foreign Assistance to Africa

Coping with Crisis in African Education

The Durability of Modernization

The Financial-Intellectual Complex

Education and Development Expectations and Outcomes

Education Policy and Policy Making in South Africa

Research Instructional and Institutional Support

Fellow Foreign Area Fellowship Program 1968-1970

HH Rackham Graduate School Faculty Fellowship and Grant 1973-1974

Spencer Foundation Grant Seed Grant for research on Revolution by Education in Tanzania A Reexamination 1980-1981

Research Grant from the Joint Committee on African Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies for research on Participation Decentralization and Education in Tanzania 1983-1984

Fulbright Senior Research Award for research on Participation Decentralization and Education in Tanzania 1984-1985

Research grant from The Rockefeller Foundation for research in Africa on Revolution by Education in Tanzania AReassessment 1984-1986

Equipment grants Digital Research Corporation 1985

Instructional Development Support Grant to develop a new course on Women and Development in Africa Feminist StudiesProgram Stanford University 1985-86

Joint Stanford-Berkeley Center for African Studies National Resource Center and Fellowships Program US Office ofEducation 1985-1988

Equipment grants IBM (Advanced Education Projects) 1985


Spencer Foundation Grant to develop microcomputer instructional software on The Human Geography of Africa 1986-88


Grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Endowment Fund for Area and International Studies and Research at Stanford1988

Selected Consultations

Swedish International Development Authority Stockholm (September 1987) Consultative Task Force on Swedish Supportto Public Administration

Swedish International Development Authority Stockholm (June 1988) Preparation of critical overview of conceptions ofand research on decentralization Consultative Task Force on Swedish Support to Public Administration

Hampshire College (June 1988) Develop new courses and related activities in education and development

Swedish International Development Authority Stockholm and Dar es Salaam (November-December 1988) Mission toreview Swedish support to public administration in Tanzania (Team Leader)

University Committee on Faculty Initiatives on Southern Africa Stanford University (1988-1989) Preparation of acomprehensive survey of resources on South(ern) Africa at Stanford University

Operational Policy and Sector Analysis Division Bureau for Coordination of Operational Activities UNESCO Paris(August-September 1989) Developed an Analytic Overview of international assistance agency Education Sector Studiesand a resource database

Interagency Task Force on Austerity Adjustment and Human Resources of the International Labour Office and the UnitedNations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (May-June 1990) Prepared Case Study Research Project

Interagency Task Force on Austerity Adjustment and Human Resources of the International Labour Office and the UnitedNations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (September 1990-1994) Principal Consultant Case StudyResearch Project

Donors Group to African Education and The World Bank Project on the Education Policy Process in Africa (July-August1991) Prepared review and analysis of education policy making in Tanzania 1961-present

Swedish International Development Authority (Division for Administrative Development) and the Government of Botswana(Ministry of Local Government and Lands) Sweden and Botswana (August-September 1991) Team Leader Evaluatedpilot land inventory project and creation of computer database

Republic of Namibia Ministry of Education and Culture and Swedish International Development Authority WindhoekNamibia (January-December 1992) Principal Consultant to prepare an Education Development Brief (an overallstatement of goals and priorities) for Namibia

National Education Coordinating Committee Johannesburg South Africa (July 1992) Reorganization and restructuring ofeducation policy research and analysis

African National Congress Education Desk Johannesburg South Africa (July 1992) Creation and Terms of Reference foran Education Policy Research Unit

Funda Community Centre Soweto South Africa (July 1992) Issues and funding in reorganizing as a community college

Careers Resource and Information Centre Cape Town South Africa (July 1992) International funding for non-governmental organizations

Swedish International Development Authority Sweden and South Africa (July 1992 - September 1994) Review andevaluation of Swedish assistance to the education of South Africans (Principal Consultant)

UNESCO Policy and Sector Analysis Division in the Bureau for Relations with Extra-Budgetary Funding Sources andDonors to African Education Working Group on Education Sector Analysis (December 1993-1996) Review of AfricaEducation Sector Studies (Principal Consultant Author Editor and Coordinator)

UNESCO Policy and Sector Analysis Division in the Bureau for Relations with Extra-Budgetary Funding Sources (March-June 1994) Review of External Agency Support to Education in South Africa (Senior Consultant)

Swedish International Development Authority for the Nordic (DANIDA FINNIDA NORAD SIDA) and Dutch (DGIS)Development Assistance organizations Scandinavia (1994-1995) Consultant review of Africa education sector studiesand development of approach and methodology

Swedish International Development Authority Sweden (1994-1995) Consultant to the Chief Advisor on Human ResourceDevelopment on foreign assistance and strategies for identifying understanding monitoring and alleviating poverty

Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries Sweden Zimbabwe and South Africa (1994-1995)Evaluation of Swedish support to Education Policy Units in South Africa

Working Group on Education Sector Analysis Association for the Development of African Education [and UNESCOPolicies and Sector Analysis Division in the Bureau for Relations with Extra-Budgetary Funding Sources Lead Agency]

Selected Consultations (continued)


(1995- ) Senior Advisor Consultation planning and implementation multiple strategies for improving the quality ofeducation sector analysis in Africa including work with both funding and technical assistance agencies and Africangovernments universities research networks and other institutions

Education Research Network for West and Central Africa and Working Group on Education Sector Analysis Association forthe Development of African Education (1996) Presenter and facilitator Seminar on Education Research and PolicyAbidjan Cocircte dIvoire

Macro-Education Policy Unit University of Durban-Westville Durban South Africa (1996) Review of major post-apartheideducation policy documents

Donors to African Education (1996-1997) Preparation of theme overviews and other materials for 1997 DAE BiennialMeeting

Ministry of Education and Culture Tanzania and University of Dar es Salaam (1996-1997) Needs assessment and planningfor the Bureau of Educational Research and Evaluation Faculty of Education University of Dar es Salaam

Ministry of Higher Education Vocational Training Science and Technology Namibia (1996-1999) Prepare national WhitePaper on Higher Education Initial work funded by the World Bank subsequent work funded by USAID

Working Group on Education Sector Analysis (Association for the Development of Education in Africa and UNESCO)European Union and Deutsche Gesellschaft fuumlr Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GTZ) (1996-1998) Technicalsupport for a Pilot Study on the Coordination of Analytical Work on the Education Sector in Ethiopia

Working Group on Education Sector Analysis (Association for the Development of African Education and UNESCODivision for the Reconstruction and Development of Education Systems) (1997-1999) Senior Advisor Preparation ofldquoFootprints in the Sand or Tracks in the MudmdashEvaluation Strategies A Conceptual Overviewrdquo and follow-upevaluation activities

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Maputo Mozambique (1997) Overview of major lessons learnedfrom recent education sector analyses and education sector development programmes in Africa for the European Unioneducation assistance coordination group in Mozambique

Working Group on Education Sector Analysis (Association for the Development of African Education and UNESCODivision for the Reconstruction and Development of Education Systems) (1997-1998) Senior Advisor Preparation ofldquoCooperation But Limited Control and Little Ownership Observations on Education Sector Studies in Africa1990ndash1994rdquo and related activities

National Summit on Africa Expert Group on Education and Culture (1997-2000) Preparation of paper on Education andCulture for the National Summit on Africa

Danish International Development Assistance (1998-1999) Development of a framework for initial activities for thecollaborative education sector analysis initiative of the Government of Mozambique and the Nordic and DutchDevelopment Assistance Agencies

Working Group on Education Sector Analysis (Association for the Development of Education in Africa and UNESCODivision for the Reconstruction and Development of Education Systems) (1997-1999) Senior Advisor Coordination ofnational reviews of education sector analysis in selected African countries (to date Zimbabwe Burkina Faso andLesotho) and related activities (including Ethiopia and Mozambique)

Danish International Development Assistance (1998-1999) Technical support to Danida and to the Ministry of EducationEritrea for the development of Danish support to the education sector in Eritrea

Association for the Development of Education in Africa (1998-1999) Edited papers presented at the ADEA BiennialMeeting Dakar Seacuteneacutegal October 1997) for publication Partnerships for Capacity Building and QualityImprovements for Education (Paris Association for the Development of Education in Africa 1999)

Working Group on Education Sector Analysis (Association for the Development of Education in Africa and UNESCODivision for the Reconstruction of Education Systems) (1999-2001) Collaborative cross-national comparative researchon international development cooperation partnerships with responsibility for the case study of Burkina Faso

United Nations Office of the Special Coordinator for Africa and the Least Developed Countries (1999) Preparation of achapter on the Rehabilitation of Education Systems for a publication on the Overview of African Development TheChallenge of Rehabilitation in Africa on the Eve of the Third Millennium



Working Group on Education Sector Analysis (Association for the Development of Education in Africa and UNESCODivision for the Reconstruction of Education Systems) (1999) Participation in comparative seminar on education sectoranalysis in Africa including lead presentation ldquoThe Process of Education Sector Analysis Critical Issuesrdquo

Danish International Development Assistance and Royal Danish School of Educational Studies (2000- ) Technical supportto Danida Faculty of Education University of Asmara the Ministry of Education Eritrea and RDSES for thedevelopment of a collaborative relationship between the Faculty of Education University of Asmara and RDSES

University of Indiana and Universidade Agostinho Neto (2000) Support for the development of a Master Plan forUniversidade Agostinho Neto Luanda Angola

Association for the Development of Education in Africa (2000) Preparation of theme overviews and related materials for the2001 ADEA Biennial Meeting

Consultative Group of Evaluative Departments [13 funding and technical assistance agencies coordinated by TheNetherlands] (2000ndash2001) Preparation of issues and options paper for joint evaluation of aid to basic education

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (2001) Course on Education Reform in Developing Countries forEducation Division staff in conjunction with the Institute of International Education University of Stockholm

Consultative Group of Evaluative Departments [12 funding and technical assistance agencies coordinated by TheNetherlands] (2001ndash2005) Adviser to the Evaluation Steering Committee and the Evaluation Management Group forthe joint evaluation of external support to basic education

UNICEF Education Section (2004) Chaired and moderated seminar on Perspectives on UNICEFmdashin Education EvaluationReports and prepared report on major findings and implications of the evaluations

Working Group on Education Sector Analysis (Association for the Development of Education in Africa and UNESCO)(2004- ) Technical support for initiative on formative research in Africa

Department for International Development (2005) Review of proposals for Research Programme Consortia Awards

Danish International Development Assistance (Danida) (2005) Mission dEacutevaluation de la Formulation de la Phase 1 duProgramme drsquoAppui au Secteur de lEacuteducation au Beacutenin (PASEB) 2006-2010

Danish International Development Assistance (Danida) (2005) Mission dEacutevaluation de la Formulation du ProgrammedAppui Danois au Secteur de lEacuteducation au Burkina Faso (PADSE) 2006-2010

SNV East and Southern Africa Review of Education Trends in East and Southern Africa Development and Dependenceand facilitation of SNV workshops and seminars in Zambia Uganda and Nairobi (2005ndash2006)

Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cultural Cooperation Education and Research Department (2006) Review ofchanging aid architecture and implications for external support to education

Working Group on Education Sector Analysis Association for the Development of Education in Africa Historical andComparative Study of Mass Education (2007ndash2008) Technical support for reviews and analyses of mass primaryeducation campaigns in Africa with attention to implications for expansion of post-primary education

Danish International Development Assistance (Danida) (2008) The Africa Commission on Effective DevelopmentCooperation with Africa Technical support for the preparation of the background paper for the Conference on theEducational Challenge (Ouagadougou Burkina Faso 16 June 2008)

Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa South Africa (2008) Participation in Colloquium Great Expectations or FalseHope A Critical Look at the Education for All Framework in Southern Africa and consultation on regional activities

USAID Aguirre Division of JBS International Inc (2009) Technical support for An Outcomes and Impacts Evaluation of ThePresidentrsquos Africa Education Initiative

Department for International Development UK (2009) Critical overview of research on education and development andpreparation of a report on Options for Education Research under DFIDs New Research Strategy (with MicheleSchweisfurth)

Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa South Africa (2009) Participation in Regional Coalitions Workshop and OSISAColloquium and consultation on regional programme and activities

OER Africa (2010) Assessment of organizational effectiveness

OER Africa (2011) Systematic Review of Implementation Grant 2009-2011 A combination of evaluation and strategicplanning drawing on documents interviews and site visits

Expert Group on Aid Studies Sweden 2015-2016 Synthetic review of evaluations of aid-funded education activities


Courses Taught

Stanford University (Quarter Courses)

Africa Development and Dependence

AIDS Literacy and Land Policy Challenges in Contemporary Africa

AIDS Literacy and Land External Aid and Development in Africa

Dynamics of Change in Africa

Education and Political Change

Education and Radical Change African Experiences

Education Contemporary Crises and the World System

Education for All The Global and Local in Public Policy Making in Africa

History of South Africa

Health and Society in Africa

Implementing Educational Reform

Problems of International Development Education Issues in Educational Policy and Planning

Research Seminar on the Politics of Education

Research Workshop in International Development Education

Running While Others Walk African Perspectives on Development

South Africa Contested Transitions

South Africa in Southern Africa

South African Politics Liberation and Reconstruction

Tarzan Terrs and Liberation Introduction to Africa Through Film

Thinking Through Africa

Women and Development in Africa

Stanford University (Short Courses)

College of Continuing Studies South Africa Contested Transitions (1999)

Undergraduate African Studies Institute South Africa Contested Transitions (1996)

Southeast Asian Senior Educators Workshop (1989 1990 1991)

Professional Development Workshop for World Bank Staff in Population and Human Resources (1989 1990 1991)

Professional Training and Development Program for Senior Malaysian Educators (1987)

Focus Africa [Institute for K-12 Teachers] Stanford Program in International and Cross-Cultural Education and BayArea Global Education Project (1982)

A Decade of Majority Rule Contested Transitions in South Africa Overseas Studies Program Cape Town (2006)

Central European University (Short Courses)

Toward a Political Economy of Education

Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Quality Education

University of Pretoria (Short Course)

Research Approach and Methodology Selected Themes

California International Studies Project (School Support)

Cultural Mentor for northern and southern California high schools on international cooperation and negotiations andSouth Africa (via Internet)

Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies (Masters in Policy Studies Short Course) [Zimbabwe]

Social Policy Education

Courses Taught (continued)


University of California at Los Angeles (Quarter Courses)

African Education

Education and National Development

University of California at Santa Barbara (Quarter Course)

African Politics

University of Stockholm Institute of International Education (Short Course)


Education Reform in Developing Countries

Universidad Iberoamericana [Mexico City] (Short Course)

Education Crises and the World System

University of Michigan (Term Courses)

Governments and Politics of Africa (undergraduate graduate survey)

Introduction to Comparative Politics

Problems of Political Development

Conflict in Southern Africa (senior seminar)

The Struggle for Angola (mini-course)


Politics of Underdevelopment and Dependence (graduate research seminar)

Political Economy (graduate seminar undergraduate)

African Economies in Their Social and Political Settings

Culture Class and Conflict in Southern Africa

University of Zambia (Year Courses)

African Studies (introductory multidisciplinary survey)

Comparative Government

Political Economy of Southern Africa

Social Science Foundation (introductory multidisciplinary survey)

University of Wisconsin (Summer Institute)

Methodology of Social Science Institute on Law and Development


Academic and Community Service

Stanford University (1980- )

Program in African and African-American Studies Advisory Board

School of Education International Development Education Social Sciences in Education Committee Committee onCurriculum Revision Committee on Minority Recruitment Chair Committee on Use of Microcomputers Com-puter Advisory Committee Co-Chair Task Force on Computing Core Curriculum Committee

University Committee on African Studies Joint African Studies Center Steering Committee on MicrocomputersCenter for Information Technology Koret Symposium Fund Committee 1984 Great Powers Seminar (Co-Dean)Project Advisory Team Academic Computing and Information Services Subcommittee on Distribution Require-ments Committee on Undergraduate Studies

University of the Free State (2010- )

Chair International Advisory Council

University of Bristol (2005-2012 )

Consortium Advisory Group Research Programme Consortium on Implementing Education Quality in Low IncomeCountries (EdQual)

University of Michigan (1970-1980)

Center for Afroamerican and African Studies Academic Affairs Committee Personnel Committee ExecutiveCommittee

Political Science Department Undergraduate Counselor Head Undergraduate Counseling Undergraduate AffairsCommittee Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession Search Committee for Black Faculty CourseEvaluations Committee Program in Political Economy Task Force on the Quality of Education

Residential College Social Science Program Curriculum Committee

University Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Center for Audio-Visual Education Student RelationsCommittee Faculty Counselor University Committee on Southern Africa (1979-80 consulting member1980-1986)

University of Zambia (1973-1975)

Co-Chairman Social Science Foundation Program Chairman Inter-School Committee on the Foundation YearSteering [Executive] Committee School of Humanities and Social Sciences Development Management andPlanning Field Committee Chairman Political Science Seminar

Ann Arbor Michigan (1970-1980)

Board of Directors Ann Arbor Transportation Authority Citizens Advisory Committee Ann Arbor TransportationAuthority Steering Committee Child Care Action Center Budget Committee Pine Lake Village Cooperative

International

Advisory Team UNESCO Forum on Higher Education Research and Knowledge (2003ndash2007)

Organizations

Association of Concerned Africa Scholars Board of Directors (1979ndash )

Education Research Network for West and Central Africa Scientific Advisory Board (2002ndash )

Face AIDS Advisory Committee (2006ndash )


Manuscript and Research Proposal Reviews


African Studies Review (Editorial Board 1988ndash1992)

Africa World Press

American Journal of Political Science

Bobbs-Merrill Publishers

Canadian Journal of African Studies

Comparative Education Review (Guest Editor for Special Issue on Education and Socialist (R)Evolution 1990 EditorialAdvisory Board 1998ndash2003 2003ndash )

Comparative Political Studies

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Development and Change (Advisory Board 1995ndash2008)

Educational Development and Cultural Change

Heinemann Publishers

Higher Education

International Journal of Educational Development (North America editor (1996ndash )

International Studies Quarterly


Journal of Politics

Language Problems and Language Planning

Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc

John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation

Macmillan

McKay Publishing Company

Michigan State University Press

Monthly Review Press

National Science Foundation

Perspectives in Education

Princeton University Press

Rhodes Fulbright International Library (Member Editorial Board)

Science for the People

Social Science Federation of Canada

Southern African Review of Education

St Martins Press

University of Michigan Press

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Winthrop Publishing Company


Book Reviews

Taketsugu Tsurutani The Politics of National Development Political Leadership in Transitional Societies (New York Chandler1973)

in The Journal of Developing Areas 81(October 1973)108-110

Alan R Kasdan The Third World A New Focus for Development (Cambridge MA Schenkman 1973) in The Journal of Developing Areas 91(October 1974)113-115

Zdenek Cervenka editor Land-Locked Countries of Africa (Uppsala Scandinavian Institute of African Studies 1973)in African Social Research 19(June 1975)759-761

P M van Hekken and H U E Thoden van Velzen Land Scarcity and Rural Inequality in Tanzania Some Case Studies fromRungwe District (The Hague Mouton 1972)

in African Social Research 21 (June 1976)78-80

Richard Harris editor The Political Economy of Africa (New York York Schenkman 1975)in Political Science Quarterly 913(Fall 1976)571-573

Election Study Committee University of Dar es Salaam Socialism and Participation Tanzanias 1970 National Elections (Dar esSalaam Tanzania Publishing House 1974)

in Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics XIV3(November 1976) 313-314

Leon Gordenker International Aid and National Decisions Development Programs in Malawi Tanzania and Zambia (PrincetonPrinceton University Press 1976)

in Political Science Quarterly 922(Summer 1977)367-369

Irving Leonard Markovitz Power and Class in Africa (Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall 1977)in Political Science Quarterly 923(Fall 1977)569-570 comment by the author and reply 933(Fall 1978)554-555

George C Bond The Politics of Change in a Zambian Community (Chicago University of Chicago Press 1976)in African Affairs 76305(October 1977)595-596

Jan Pettman Zambia Security and Conflict (New York St Martins Press 1974)in American Political Science Review LXXI4(December 1977)1717-1718

William Tordoff editor Politics in Zambia (Berkeley University of California Press 1974)in American Political Science Review LXXI4(December 1977)1729-1731)

Samir Amin Unequal Development An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism (New York Monthly ReviewPress 1976)

in ASA Review of Books 4(1978)87-88

Issa G Shivji Class Struggles in Tanzania (New York Monthly Review Press 1976)in African Law Studies 16(1978)166-168

P J Boyce Foreign Affairs in New States Some Questions of Credentials (New York St Martins Press 1977)in The Journal of Developing Areas 123(April 1978)355-356

Tony Barnett The Gezira Scheme An Illusion of Development (Totowa NJ Frank Cass 1977)in The American Historical Review 834(October 1978)1068-1069

Jannik Boesen Birgit Storgard Madsen and Tony Moody UjamaamdashSocialism From Above (Uppsala Scandinavian Institute ofAfrican Studies 1977)

in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 121(1979) 117-120

Sally Falk Moore and Paul Puritt The Chagga and Meru of Tanzania (London International African Institute 1977)in Africana Journal X4(November 1979)335-336

Patrick Cole Modern and Traditional Elites in the Politics of Lagos (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1975)in Africana Journal 111-2(1980)128-129

Book Reviews (continued)


David Jones Aid and Development in Southern Africa (London Croom Helm 1977)in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 133(1980)567-569

Robert B Seidman The State Law and Development (New York St Martins Press 1978)in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 144(1981)733-736

Dean E McHenry Jr Tanzanias Ujamaa Villages The Implementation of a Rural Development Strategy (Berkeley Institute ofInternational Studies University of California 1979)

in American Political Science Review 744(December 1980)1120-1121

Robin Cohen Peter C W Gutkind and Phyllis Brazier editors Peasants and Proletarians The Struggles of Third World Workers(New York Monthly Review Press 1979)

in ASA Review of Books 1981235-237

Michaela von Freyhold Ujamaa Villages in Tanzania Analysis of a Social Experiment (New York Monthly Review Press 1979)John S Saul The State and Revolution in Eastern Africa (New York Monthly Review Press 1979)in Science and Society XLV1(Spring 1981)189-93 [Review Essay]

Goran Hyden Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania Underdevelopment and an Uncaptured Peasantry (Berkeley University of CaliforniaPress 1980)

in African Economic History forthcoming

John Iliffe A Modern History of Tanganyika (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1979)in Canadian Journal of African Studies 161(1982)173-174

Donald Kalinde Kowet Land Labour Migration and Politics in Southern Africa Botswana Lesotho and Swaziland (UppsalaScandinavian Institute of African Studies 1978)

in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 141(1982)179-181

Michael Bratton The Local Politics of Rural Development Peasant and Party-State in Zambia (Hanover NH University Press ofNew England 1980)

in The American Historical Review 871(February 1982)233-234

R H Sabot Economic Development and Urban Migration Tanzania 1900-1971 (Oxford Oxford University Press 1979)in International Migration Review XV1-2(Spring-Summer 1982)407-408

James H Mittelman Underdevelopment and the Transition to Socialism Mozambique and Tanzania (New York Academic Press1981)

in Science and Society XLVII2(Summer 1983)231-234

Gavin Kitching Class and Economic Change in Kenya The Making of an African Petite Bourgeoisie (New Haven Yale UniversityPress 1980)

in Africana Journal XII4(1981 [1984])368-371

Andrew Coulson Tanzania A Political Economy (London Oxford University Press 1982)in African Economic History forthcoming

Rodger Yeager Tanzania An African Experiment (Boulder Westview Press 1982)in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 173(1984)548-550

R G Abrahams editor Villages Villagers and the State in Modern Tanzania (Cambridge University of Cambridge 1985)in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 193(1986)532-534

Jon Lewis Industrialisation and Trade Union Organisation in South Africa 1924-55 The Rise and Fall of the South African Tradesand Labour Council (New York Cambridge University Press 1984)

in American Historical Review 914(October 1986)974-975

C George Kahama T L Maliyamkono and Stuart Wells The Challenge for Tanzanias Economy (London James Currey1986)




Duncan Innes Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa (New York Monthly Review Press 1984)in Science and Society 514(Winter 1987-88)489-492

Issa G Shivji Law State and the Working Class in Tanzania c 1920-1964 (London James Currey Portsmouth NHHeinemann and Dar es Salaam Tanzania Publishing House 1986)

in Africana Review forthcoming

George W Shepherd Jr The Trampled Grass Tributary States and Self-reliance in the Indian Ocean Zone of Peace (New YorkPraeger 1987)


Michael Hodd Tanzania After Nyerere (London Pinter Publishers Inc 1988)in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 221(1989)177-180

Denny Kalyalya Khethiwe Mlanga Ann Seidman and Joseph Semboja editors Aid and Development in Southern AfricaEvaluating a Participatory Learning Process (Trenton NJ Africa World Press 1988)

in The International Journal of African Historical Studies forthcoming

Jannik Boesen Kjell J Havnevik Juhani Koponen and Rie Odgaard editors Tanzania Crisis and Struggle for Survival(Uppsala Scandinavian Institute of African Studies)

T L Maliyamkono and M S D Bagachwa The Second Economy in Tanzania (London James Currey 1990)

Rodger Yeager Tanzania An African Experiment (Boulder Westview Press Second Edition Revised and Updated 1989)in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 24(1992)432-441

John B Knight and Richard H Sabot Education Productivity and Inequality The East African Natural Experiment (OxfordOxford University Press for the World Bank 1990)

Arthur Hazlewood Education Work and Pay in East Africa (New York and Oxford ClarendonOxford University Press 1989)in The Journal of Developing Areas 271(October 1992)85-91

Christopher Colclough with Keith Lewin Educating All the Children Strategies for Primary Schooling in the South (OxfordClarendon Press 1993)

in Comparative Education Review 391(February 1995)142-146

Alexander H Sarris and Rogier van den Brink Economic Policy and Household Welfare during Crisis and Adjustment in Tanzania(New York New York University Press 1993)

in Studies in Comparative International Development 302(Summer 1995)100-103

Deborah Fahy Bryceson Liberalizing Tanzanias Food Trade Public and Private Faces of Urban Marketing Policy 1939-1988(London James Currey Ltd 1993)


Phillip W Jones World Bank Financing of Education Lending learning and development (New York Routledge Second Edition2006)

in Comparative Education Review 5253(August 2008)494-496

Marie-Aude Foueacutereacute editor Remembering Nyerere in Tanzania History Memory Legacy (Dar es Salaam Mkuki na Nyota2015)

in Africa The Journal of the International African Institute forthcoming


Professional Papers and Panels (Selected)ldquoUsing Africa-Related Media in the Social SciencesmdashAn Overviewrdquo Conference on Images of Africa New Directions in

Media 1979ldquoPluralism and Conflict in Africa Ethnicity Interests and Class in Tanzaniardquo International Political Science Association

Research Committee on Socio-Political Pluralism XII World Congress Rio de Janeiro 1982 (invited paper)ldquoPopular Culture in Africardquo Conference on Lo Popular Stanford University February 1983Conference on Resistance in the United States Africa and the Caribbean (co-organizer) May 1983ldquoCase Studies How Do the Great Powers Involve Themselves in the Political Affairs of the Third World mdashAfricardquo 1984

Great Powers Seminar (Co-Dean) Stanford University March 1984Women and Development in Africa Joint Stanford-Berkeley Center for African Studies Annual Conference (Panel organizer

and Chair) April 1984Contending Marxian Approaches to the State in the Third World American Educational Research Association Annual

Conference San Francisco April 1986 (Symposium Chair)Expert witness on South Africa and the Divestment Movement in the United States Santa Clara County Superior Court

April 1986ldquoSocialist Vision and Capitalist Practice in Tanzanian Educationrdquo VI World Congress of Comparative Education Rio de

Janeiro Brazil July 1987 (invited paper)ldquoThe Durability of Modernizationrdquo International Conference on Development and Underdevelopment in Africa Lisbon

November 1987 (Invited Paper)ldquoThe Demise and Resurrection of Local Government in Tanzaniardquo XIV World Congress of the International Political Science

Association Washington D C August 1988African Studies Association Task Force on Sustainable Growth Education Group (Chair and Co-Chair) November 1989-

November 1990ldquoCommunity Participation in Education Possibilities and Problemsrdquo Professional Development Workshop for World Bank

Staff in Population and Human Resources June 1990Parks Pasture and Peoples Land Use Issues in East Africa Symposium on Ethnicity Equity and Environment Confronting

a Global Dilemma Stanford University April 1991 (Panel Discussant)ldquoResearch Knowledge and Policy in Assistance to African Education The Financial-Intellectual Complexrdquo XV World

Congress of the International Political Science Association Buenos Aires July 1991ldquoThe Financial-Intellectual Complex Implications for Research Researchers and Their Institutionsrdquo National Conference of

the Union of Democratic University Staff Associations University of Durban-Westville July 1992ldquoSocialist Educationrdquo South African Council for Higher Education July 1992ldquoEducation Policy and Planning in Tanzania and Namibiardquo Faculty of Education University of the Western Cape July 1992ldquoTriumphalism Tarzan and Other Influences Teaching About Africa in the 1990srdquo Invited Paper Conference on Teaching

African Studies at the Undergraduate Level St Lawrence University October 1992ldquoExternal Assistance to African Education A Critical Perspectiverdquo Centre for Basic Research Kampala January 1993ldquoUS Africa Policy Clintons Inheritancerdquo US Peace Council Palo Alto California February 1993ldquoFinancial Crisis Structural Adjustment and Education Policy in Tanzaniardquo (with Suleman Sumra) Annual Meeting of the

American Educational Research Association New Orleans April 1994 (Invited Symposium)ldquoStructural Adjustment Poverty and Democracy in Africardquo XVI World Congress of the International Political Science

Association Berlin August 1994ldquoFrom Isolation to the Center of Attention External Agencies and Education in South Africardquo Panafrican Colloquium

Educational Innovation in Post-Colonial Africa Cape Town South Africa December 1994 (invited Keynote)ldquoCoping With Crisis Austerity Adjustment and Human Resourcesrdquo University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South

Africa February 1995ldquoEducation Sector Studies and Development Dialogues Products and Processrdquo Seminar on Issues in Education Sector

Analysis Scandinavian and Dutch Development Assistance Agencies Copenhagen April 1995ldquoAid and Education Transforming the Policy Making Processrdquo Annual Conference of the Nordic Association for the Study

of Education in Developing Countries Arings Norway June 1995 (Invited Keynote)ldquoWhich Priorities and Strategies for Educationrdquo Oxford International Conference on Education and Development

Globalisation and Learning Oxford September 1995 (Invited Plenary Paper)Analyses Agendas and Priorities in African Education A Review of Externally Initiated Commissioned and Supported Studies of

Education in Africa 1990-1994 (Revised) Biennial Conference of the Association for the Development of AfricanEducation Tours France October 1995

Selected Professional Papers and Panels (continued)


ldquoStudying the Education Sector in Africa Lessons from Experiencerdquo Seminar Department for Democracy and SocialDevelopment Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Stockholm January 1996

ldquoThe Role of Research in Educational Managementrdquo Malaysia Senior Executive Program Stanford University May 1996ldquoAnalyses Agendas and Priorities in African Educationrdquo Seminar of the Education Research Network for West and Central

Africa and the Education Research Network for Eastern and Southern Africa Abidjan Cocircte dIvoire August 1996ldquoAnalyses Agendas and Priorities in African Education Directions Decisions and Deciders Faculty of Education Research

Seminar University of Dar es Salaam November 1996Education in Africa Contested Terrain Shifting PowerEducacioacuten en Africa Terreno en lucha el poder en transicioacuten

Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society Mexico City March 1997 (Chair)ldquoFrameworks Making Education Policy in Majority Rule South Africardquo Annual Meeting of the Comparative and

International Education Society Mexico City March 1997ldquoFootprints in the Sand or Tracks in the MudmdashEvaluation Strategies A Conceptual Overviewrdquo Working Group on

Education Sector Analysis Paris April 1997ldquoCooperation But Limited Control and Little Ownership Observations on Education Sector Studies in Africa 1990ndash1994rdquo

Biennial of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa Dakar Seacuteneacutegal October 1997Visions Frameworks and Practices Making Higher Education Policy in Africa World Congress of Comparative Education

Societies Cape Town July 1998 (session organizer and Chair)ldquoInstitutionalizing International Influence The Context for Education Reform in Africardquo Conference on International

Trends in Teacher Education University of Durban-Westville Durban July 1998 (invited Keynote)ldquoEducation Sector Analysis in Africa Problems and Prospectsrdquo National Seminar on Education Sector Analysis Maseru

Lesotho November 1998ldquoWhen Research Becomes Consultingrdquo Oxford International Conference on Education and Development Oxford

September 1999ldquoEducation in AfricamdashChallenges for Education Researchersrdquo Faculty of Education University of Durban-Westville Durban

South Africa October 1999ldquoEducation For All in Africa Still a Distant Dreamrdquo Indiana University Bloomington IN March 2000 (invited keynote)ldquoFrom Philanthropy to Partnership Foreign Assistance to Education in Africardquo XVIII World Congress of the International

Political Science Association Queacutebec August 2000ldquoManaging Knowledge Storing Wisdom New Forms of Foreign Aidrdquo Institute of International Education University of

Stockholm April 2001ldquoScaling Up by Focusing Down Creating Space to Expand Education Reformrdquo (co-authored with E Molapi Sebatane and

Martial Dembeacuteleacute) Biennial Meeting of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa Arusha TanzaniaOctober 2001 [httpwwwadeanetorgbiennialpapersen_arusha_samoffpdf]

ldquoKnowledge Management for Africa Initiatives and Challengesrdquo University of Dar es Salaam October 2001ldquoIdealism and Realism Are Not Alternativesrdquo Conference on Balancing Reality and Idealism The Challenges of Working in

International Development Stanford Association for International Development June 2002ldquoSector-Based Development Cooperation Critical Issuesrdquo Nordic Solidarity Nordic Council of Ministers Conference on the

Role of Education in Policies for Development Co-operation Oslo June 2002ldquoReflections on Paulo Freire in Africa Critique and Utopiardquo Paulo Freire Research Conference University of California at

Los Angeles September 2002ldquoForeign Aid as lsquoPartnershiprsquo Changing Terminology Persisting Practice in Africardquo 19th World Congress of the International

Political Science Association Durban July 2003ldquoEducation Quality Difficult Choicesrdquo Education Division Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Stockholm September 2003ldquoDecentralization Specifying Who Rulesrdquo Institute of International Education University of Stockholm Stockholm

September 2003ldquoUS Africa Policy Continuities in the Transition from Multilateralism to Unilateralismrdquo World Affairs Council San

Francisco October 2003ldquoLe Rocircle de lrsquoAnalyse Sectorielle dans la Mise en Œuvre des Programmes drsquoAide Internationale agrave lrsquoEacuteducation pour

TousrdquoTrends in International Aids for Education for All The Role of Sector Analysisrdquo IIEP Strategic SeminarsInternational Institute for Educational Planning Paris September 2004



ldquoInfluencemdashDirect Indirect and Negotiated The World Bank and Higher Education in Africardquo XII World Congress ofComparative Education Societies Havana Cuba October 2004

ldquoSector Analysis Sector Support and Sector Frustrations in Africardquo Education Division Swedish International DevelopmentCooperation Authority Stockholm November 2004

ldquoFrom Manpower Planning to the Knowledge Era World Bank Policies on Higher Education in Africardquo (with Bidemi Carrol)Colloquium on ldquoKnowledge Access Governance Strategies for Changerdquo UNESCO Forum on Higher EducationResearch and Knowledge Paris December 2004 (Invited Paper)

ldquoCritical Reflective Actionrdquo Graduation Speech University of Pretoria April 2005ldquoFrom Funding Projects to Supporting Sectors Observations on the Aid Relationshiprdquo IIEP Strategic Seminars International

Institute for Educational Planning Paris October 2005ldquoAid to Education Reflections on the Fast Track to Planned Dependencerdquo Ontario Institute for the Study of Education

University of Toronto Toronto October 2005ldquoImaginative Innovations and Muddling Through in Joint Evaluations Observations drawn from Local Solutions to Global

Challenges Towards Effective Partnership in Basic Educationrdquo Joint Conference of the Canadian Evaluation Society and theAmerican Evaluation Association Toronto October 2005

ldquoEducation Trends in East and Southern Africa Development and Dependencerdquo SNV seminar Nairobi Kenya May 2006ldquoA New Education CompactUn Nouveau Contrat Social drsquoEacuteducationrdquo (with Steven Obeegadoo) Biennial Meeting of the

Association for the Development of Education in Africa Libreville Gabon April 2006ldquoScaling Up by Focusing Down Creating Space and Capacity to Extend Education Reform in Africardquo USAID Latin America

and Caribbean Regional Education and Training Workshop Miami May 2006ldquoEducation for All in Africa Still a Distant Dreamrdquo University of the Western Cape Cape Town September 2006ldquoChanging Aid Architecturerdquo Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Hague November 2006ldquoEducation Quality The Disabilities of the Aid Relationshiprdquo Annual Conference of the Comparative and International

Education Society Baltimore February 2007Seedbeds Matter Addressing Obstacles to Education Reform Imbewu Programme Review Conference Systemic

Interventions in School Transformation Port Elizabeth South Africa June 2007 (Invited Keynote)ldquoUna Perspectiva critica de las poliacuteticas educativas del Banco MundialA Critical Perspective on the World Bankrsquos Education

Policiesrdquo Universidad Nacional Autoacutenoma de Meacutexico November 2007Research Expanding Scale and Public Policy Frustrations Challenges and Strategies EdQual (Research Programme

Consortium on Implementing Education Quality in Low Income Countries) Kigali Rwanda September 2008ldquoEFA More of the Same Will Not Dordquo Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa Johannesburg September 2008ldquoThe Fast Track to Planned Dependence Education Aid to Africardquo International Political Science Association XXI World

Congress Santiago Chile July 2009ldquoEducation Transformation and Community Action in Africardquo OSISA Civil SocietyEducation Workshop Johannesburg

South Africa August 2009The State of Race in South African Universities (Chair and Discussant) University of the Free State Bloemfontein South

Africa October 2009Tensions and Opportunities Supporting Research on Education and Development (co-authored by Michele Schweisfurth)

Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference Chicago March 2010What Interests International and Comparative Education Researchers (co-authored by Jesse Foster and Nii Antiaye Addy)

Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference Chicago March 2010ldquoThe Roots Branches and Barbs of US Africa Policy An Overviewrdquo Forum for AmericanChinese Exchange at Stanford

Stanford University April 2010ldquoSouth Africa Winter of our Discontentrdquo International Human Rights and Development Clinical Program Law School

Stanford University October 2010ldquoChina in Africa Development Stimulus or Dependence Remixrdquo World Affairs 2011 Challenges to American Power San

Francisco March 2011ldquoMore of the Same Will Not Dordquo Panel on The World Bank and Education An analysis of the new education strategy

Comparative and International Education Society Montreacuteal May 2011ldquoResearch It Takes a Villagerdquo Comparative and International Education Society Montreacuteal May 2011ldquoThe Challenges of Going to Scalerdquo (co-authored with Martial Dembeacuteleacute and E Molapi Sebatane) UKFIET International

Conference on Education and Development Oxford September 2011



ldquoGirlsrsquo Education in Africa Whose Agenda Which Explanationrdquo World Affairs Council San Francisco November 2011ldquoWho You Are is So Loud I Cannot Hear What You are Sayingrdquo Ethics at Noon Stanford University February 2012ldquoThe World Bank is a Slow Learnerrdquo Comparative and International Education Society San Juan Puerto Rico April 2012ldquoThe Researchers Roarrdquo Graduate Public Service Fellows Stanford University April 2012ldquoEmbedding Dependence Education for Underdevelopmentrdquo African Studies Association Annual Conference Philadelphia

November 2012ldquoUnasked Questions Remain Unanswered Addressing Learning for Allrdquo Launch Conference South African Education

Research Association (Invited Keynote) Bela Bela South Africa January 2013ldquoNelson Rolihlahla Mandelardquo Stanford Daily 7 December 2013ldquoField Research Networkingrdquo Preparing for International Field Work Stanford University May 2014ldquoChallenging Apartheid Divestment Seemed Far Too Weakrdquo Conference on Nonviolent Action Amidst Violent Conflict

Stanford University May 2014ldquoEducation for All The Funding Gap Or The Road to Privatizationrdquo Southern African Comparative and History of

Education Society Annual Meeting Durban August 2014 (Invited Keynote)ldquoEducation for All The Funding Gaprdquo International Seminar on ChinandashAfrica Education Development and Capacity

Building Zhejiang Normal University October 2014ldquoEducation for All in Africa Still a Distant Dreamrdquo Institute of International and Comparative Education Zhejiang Normal

University October 2014ldquoPrivatization in Education Promises and Problemsrdquo 7th Mwalimu Nyerere Intellectual Festival University of Dar es Salaam

April 2015ldquoSet the Pacerdquo Global Leadership Summit University of the Free State Bloemfontein July 2015 (Invited Keynote)ldquoSetting the Pace lsquoWe Must Run While Others Walkrsquordquo International Conference on Innovation for Education Kigali

Rwanda September 2015 (Invited Keynote)ldquoInnovation and Constraint Counter-Currents in Tanzanian Educationrdquo Symposium on Tanzanian Education Post-2014

Taking Stock and Looking Ahead Michigan State University East Lansing September 2015ldquoDivestmentSouth Africa Challenging Injustice from a Distancerdquo Palo Alto High School September 2015ldquoWho You Are is So Loud I Cannot Hear What You are Sayingrdquo ldquoCapturing Complexity and Context in Evaluating Aid to

Educationrdquo and ldquoAid Education and Dependencerdquo Masters Degree in Education Policies for Global DevelopmentAutonomous University of Barcelona November 2015

ldquoEvaluations Grand Expectations Limited Userdquo Comparative and International Education Society Annual ConferenceVancouver March 2016

ldquoCapturing Complexity and Context in Evaluating Aid to Educationrdquo Seminar on Aid to Education What Works in aComplex World Stockholm May 2016

ldquoLearning Enlightening Emancipating Empowering (and Disruptive)rdquo University of the Free State June 2016 (GraduationAddress)

ldquoCapturing Complexity and Context Evaluating Aid to Educationrdquo African Studies Association Annual MeetingWashington December 2016

ldquoThe Learning Generation More Learning Without Learningrdquo Comparative and International Education Society AnnualConference Atlanta March 2017

ldquoEducation Research and the Post-Colonial Underdevelopment of Africardquo South African Education Research AssociationAnnual Conference Port Elizabeth South Africa October 2017

Higher Education for Self Reliance Tanzania and Africa HakiElimu and University of Dar es Salaam Annual ConvocationSymposium on Tanzania Towards Industrialization Rethinking Education for Self Reliance Policy Dar es SalaamNovember 2017 (Invited Keynote)

ldquoFraming An Agenda Embedded in Constructs and Methods World Development Report 2018rdquo Comparative andInternational Education Society Annual Meeting Mexico City March 2018

ldquoAdvice and Models for Decolonized Education World Development Report 2018rdquo South African EducationResearch Association Annual Conference Pretoria South Africa October 2018

6 November 2018

JOEL SAMOFF Curriculum Vitae mdash

Professional AssociationsAfrican Association of Political ScienceAfrican Studies Association (Board of Directors 1982-1985 Herskovits Award Committee member 1980-1982 and

chair 1981-1982)American Educational Research AssociationAmerican Political Science AssociationAssociation of Concerned Africa Scholars (Board of Directors 1979ndash Research Chair 1981-83)Comparative and International Education Society (Nominations Committee 1991 Awards Committee 1994-1995

2015 Awards Committee Chair 1997-2000 Board of Directors 2000-2003 )International Political Science AssociationSouth African Education Research AssociationTanzania Historical Society

Languages FrenchSwahili

Fields of InterestAfrican PoliticsPolitical Economy of UnderdevelopmentComparative PoliticsEducation and DevelopmentPolitics and EducationPolitical SociologyPolitical Development and ModernizationPhilosophy of Social ScienceUrban Politics (Africa)



























































































































































292(1982)31-41




Book Reviews in

African Affairs

Africana Journal





ASA Review of Books







Journal of Politics


Science and Society

Reports




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Courses Taught











































African Education



African Politics











































International


Organizations








Africa World Press










Higher Education




Journal of Politics




Macmillan











St Martins Press





Book Reviews


















































































































































































6 November 2018



























































































































































292(1982)31-41




Book Reviews in

African Affairs

Africana Journal





ASA Review of Books







Journal of Politics


Science and Society

Reports




Reports (continued)























Reports (continued)






















Reports (continued)







































































































Courses Taught











































African Education



African Politics











































International


Organizations








Africa World Press










Higher Education




Journal of Politics




Macmillan











St Martins Press





Book Reviews


















































































































































































6 November 2018

Reports (continued)























Reports (continued)






















Reports (continued)







































































































Courses Taught











































African Education



African Politics











































International


Organizations








Africa World Press










Higher Education




Journal of Politics




Macmillan











St Martins Press





Book Reviews


















































































































































































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Reports (continued)







































































































Courses Taught











































African Education



African Politics











































International


Organizations








Africa World Press










Higher Education




Journal of Politics




Macmillan











St Martins Press





Book Reviews


















































































































































































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Courses Taught











































African Education



African Politics











































International


Organizations








Africa World Press










Higher Education




Journal of Politics




Macmillan











St Martins Press





Book Reviews


















































































































































































6 November 2018







































































Courses Taught











































African Education



African Politics











































International


Organizations








Africa World Press










Higher Education




Journal of Politics




Macmillan











St Martins Press





Book Reviews


















































































































































































6 November 2018




African Education



African Politics











































International


Organizations








Africa World Press










Higher Education




Journal of Politics




Macmillan











St Martins Press





Book Reviews


















































































































































































6 November 2018




















International


Organizations








Africa World Press










Higher Education




Journal of Politics




Macmillan











St Martins Press





Book Reviews


















































































































































































6 November 2018





Africa World Press










Higher Education




Journal of Politics




Macmillan











St Martins Press





Book Reviews


















































































































































































6 November 2018


Book Reviews


















































































































































































6 November 2018


























































































































































6 November 2018