field of Educational Leadership and Manage ment. His primary research foci
are educational leadership and educat ion policy.Professor Williams is the
author of Chapter 8.
Geesje van den Berg (DEd) started her undergraduate studies at NWU ,
and obtained a Masters at the University of Kwazulu- N atal. She co mpleted
a DEd at U nisa. Curr ently,she is an Associate Professor and head of the
D epa rtment of Curriculum and Instructio nal Stu dies at Unisa,where she
has been a staff mem ber since 2002. She is involv ed in the man ageme nt and
leadership of various programmes in Curriculum Studies.With a number of
journal articles, conference publications and completed Mastersand Doctoral
students, her particular field of interest lies in teaching and learning in an
open distance learning (ODL) environment. She is involved in a Masters in
Education in O DL, co-offered by the University of Maryland University
College (USA) and U nisa. Professor van den Berg is the author of Chapter 5.
Peter Beets (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Curriculum Studies in the Faculty of Education at SU.After seven years
of teaching at a high school, he lectured at three different Colleges of
Education. He joined the Western Cape Education D epartmen t (WCED)
in 1998, first as Curriculum Advisor, then as Se nior C urr iculum Planner
for Geography. Peter Beets obtained a BA (Hons) degree in Geography