People

Professor Ursula Hoadley

Role

Ursula Hoadley is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town. She works on a wide range of national and international research projects, including work on the ‘Provision of basic education in South Africa: Institutional and political challenges’ project for ESID.

Research

Ursula’s research interests include: curriculum policy; pedagogy; school organisation; early grade reading; education and inequality; and education in African contexts.

ESID publications

Book
Levy, B., Cameron, R., Hoadley, U. and Naidoo, V. (eds.) (2018). The Politics and Governance of Basic Education: A Tale of Two South African Provinces. London: Oxford University Press. OPEN ACCESS.
Book chapters
Crouch, L. and Hoadley, U. (2018). ‘The transformation of South Africa’s system of Basic Education’. In Levy, B. Cameron, R. Hoadley, U. and Naidoo, V. (eds.), The Politics and Governance of Basic Education: A Tale of Two South African Provinces. London: Oxford University Press. OPEN ACCESS.
Hoadley, U., Levy, B., Shumane, L. and Wilburn, S. (2018). ‘Case studies of school-level governance dynamics in the Western Cape’. In Levy, B. Cameron, R. Hoadley, U. and Naidoo, V. (eds.), The Politics and Governance of Basic Education: A Tale of Two South African Provinces. London: Oxford University Press. OPEN ACCESS.
ESID working papers
Hoadley, U., Levy, B., Shumane, L. and Wilburn, S. (2016). ‘Leadership, stakeholders and learner performance in four Western Cape schools‘. ESID Working Paper 61.
Levy, B., Cameron, R., Hoadley, U. and Naidoo, V. (2016). ‘The politics and governance of basic education: A tale of two South African provinces‘. ESID Working Paper 67.