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Brief Bio
Dr Jeanne Gamble joined the Higher and Adult Education Studies Development Unit (HAESDU) in July 2010 on a half-time basis, having previously worked in the former Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies from 1989 to 2007. She holds a BA degree and Senior Teaching Diploma from the University of Stellenbosch and an Advanced Diploma in Adult Education (with distinction), a MPhil degree (with distinction) as well as a PhD from the University of Cape Town. Working within a conceptual framework drawn mainly from the theoretical work of the British sociologist, Basil Bernstein, her doctoral dissertation was titled Tacit knowledge in craft pedagogy: a sociological analysis.
Previous work experience includes secondary school teaching, private sector training and human resources development and three years as a Chief Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council. She is currently an Honorary Research Associate in the School of Education at UCT and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the School of Education of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She chairs the Research Forum of the Quality Council for General and Further Education and Training (Umalusi) and also serves on the Assessment Standards Committee, a sub-committee of the Umalusi Council.
Research Interests
Since her doctoral work Jeanne’s research has focussed on the formal relation between knowledge and practice in curriculum, with particular emphasis on the forms taken by this curricular combination in vocational and professional education. She is currently working on a book that explores the notion of practical knowledge from a sociological perspective. Other interests are research methodologies in the social sciences and educational policy analysis and evaluation.
Teaching
Jeanne teaches on the Adult Education stream of the PG Dip/Masters Programme. She convenes a module on Education and Training Policy in South Africa (EDN6092) and co-convenes a module on Adult Learning and Experience (EDN6091F). She also supervises research students.
Some recent publications
Gamble, J. & Hoadley, U. 2011. Positioning the regulative order. In G. Ivinson, B. Davies & J. Fitz (Eds). Knowledge and identity: concepts and applications in Bernstein’s sociology. London and New York: Routledge.157-175.
Gamble, J. 2010a. Exploring the transmission of moral order as invisible semiotic mediator of tacit knowledge. In P. Singh, A. Sadovnik & S. Semel (Eds). Toolkits, translation devices, conceptual tyrannies: essays on Basil Bernstein's sociology of knowledge. New York: Peter Lang. 121–141.
Gamble, J & Muller, J. 2010b. Curriculum and structuralist sociology: the theory of codes and knowledge structures. In B. McGraw, E. Baker & P. Peterson (Eds). International Encyclopedia of Education. Third edition. Elsevier Science. 505-509.
Gamble, J. 2009a. The relation between knowledge and practice in curriculum and assessment. Concept paper commissioned by Umalusi (Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training). http://www.umalusi.org.za
Gamble J. 2009b. Knowledge and identity in the mobile workplace. In M. Weil, L Koski & L. Mjelde (Eds.). Knowing work: the social relations of working and knowing. Bern: Peter Lang. 51-75.
Young, M. & Gamble, J. (Eds). 2006a. Knowledge, curriculum and qualifications for South African further education. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
Gamble, J. 2006b. Theory and practice in the vocational curriculum. In M. Young and J. Gamble (Eds). Knowledge, curriculum and qualifications for South African further education. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 87-103.
Gamble, J. 2006c. What kind of knowledge for the vocational curriculum? In L. Mjelde and R. Daly (Eds.). Working knowledge in a globalizing world: from work to learning, from learning to work. Bern: Peter Lang Press. 61-82.
Gamble, J. 2004a. Retrieving the general from the particular: The structure of craft knowledge. In J. Muller, B. Davies and A. Morais (Eds) Reading Bernstein, researching Bernstein. London: RoutledgeFalmer. 189-203.
Gamble, J. 2004b. A future curriculum mandate for further education and training colleges: recognising intermediate knowledge and skill. In S. McGrath, A. Badroodien, A. Kraak and L. Unwin (Eds). Shifting understandings of skill in South Africa, Cape Town: HSRC Press. 175-193.
Gamble. J. 2003a. Curriculum responsiveness in FET colleges. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
Gamble, J. 2003b. Retrieving the general from the particular: the structure of craft knowledge. Journal of Education. 29, 73-91.
Gamble, J. 2002. Teaching without words: tacit knowledge in apprenticeship. Journal of Education. 28, 63-82.
Gamble, J. 2001. Modelling the invisible: the pedagogy of craft apprenticeship. Studies in Continuing Education. 23(2). 185-200.