Dr Nuraan Davids’ interests include democratic citizenship education, Islamic education and ethics in education, with a particular focus on educational policy, gender, theory and practice, management and leadership inquiry.
She is a lecturer in the department of education policy studies in the faculty of education at Stellenbosch University. She holds a doctorate in the philosophy of education. She has supervised three master’s students to completion and is currently supervising seven master’s and four PhD students.
Davids is an associate editor of the South African Journal of Higher Education; and is an editorial board member of Ethics and Education, the international journal of the International Network of Philosophers of Education. She is a member of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, and the American Educational Research Association. Her recent books are Women, cosmopolitanism, and Islamic education: On the virtues of education and belonging (with Yusef Waghid) and Citizenship, education and violence: On disrupted potentialities and becoming. She has co-edited a special issue of Studies in Philosophy of Education (2014), titled “Islamic education: Possibilities, Opportunities and Tensions”.
Most recently, she has been invited to be a contributing editor for the section “Voices from the present and the past” in the International Handbook of Philosophy of Education.
In addition, Davids has also published one edited, special issue of an international journal, 10 international and 12 national peer-reviewed articles, nine book chapters, four conference proceedings, 11 conference presentations and one keynote address. Currently, she has seven articles under review.
Her research awards include the Rector’s Award for General Performance (2014 and 2015); and the Mellon Academic Staff Development Award.