Sylvan Blignaut is Professor in the Department of Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Education at Nelson Mandela University. He was the Director of the School of Educational Research and Engagement in the Faculty of Education during 2016-2018. He is a C-2 rated researcher with the National Research Foundation in South Africa. His research interests centre on curriculum policy and theory, educational change,teacher epistemologies and decolonisationof higher education.During 2010-2011 he was a Fulbright Postdoctoral fellow in the USA,at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he focused on social justice issues in the curriculum. He has lectured a course work M Ed degree in Curriculum Policy, Development and Management at centres across Southern Africa.Sylvan has published extensively in national and international journals and has also supervised many PhD and M Ed students to completion.