Diane Brook Napier

Dr. Diane Brook Napier is a professor of Comparative and International Education, now retired from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA. She was born and raised in South Africa where she received her undergraduate education. She is a naturalized American citizen, now residing in the United States where she completed her graduate education. Her research and teaching specialties focus on post-colonial educational reform and democratic transformation policies and their implementation. She has conducted field research on these issues most extensively in South Africa. She is a long time member of the South African Institute of Race Relations. She has also conducted research in Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Kenya, DRCongo, Costa Rica, Cuba and the UAE. Her research focuses specifically on issues of globalization of education, reform policy-practice; race and deracialization, ideology, language, justice/injustice, human resources development (in education, health, housing, water supply, labor), also on migrant and refugee issues, environmental justice, and teacher education. She has published widely in refereed journals and in collections of research.

Recent projects include Interculturalism, Society and Education, 2011 (Eds. G. Pampanini, F. Adly & D. Brook Napier) in the Sense Publishers Series from the 2007 World Congress of Comparative Education Societies in Sarajevo; Education, Dominance & Identity, 2013 (Eds. D.B. Napier & S. Majhanovich), and Qualities of Education in Globalised World, 2014 (Ed. D.B. Napier) in the Sense Series from the 2010 World Congress in Istanbul; The Dialectics of Comparative Education: Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region, 2014 (Eds. W. O. Lee, D.B. Napier & M. Manzon) Asia Pacific Journal of Education Special Issue, 34(2), June 2014); New Times, New Voices, 2014 IRE Special Issue, Vol. 60 (4) (Guest Eds. S. Majhanovich, D. Brook Napier, & N. F. Lamarra); Revitalising Minority Voices: Language Issues in the New Millennium, 2015 (Eds. R. De Palma, D. Brook Napier & W. Dze-Ngwa) in the Sense Series from the 2013 World Congress in Buenos Aires; and International Perspectives on Race (and Racism): Historical and Contemporary Considerations in Education and Society, 2015 (Ed. D.Brook Napier) published by Nova Science Publishers. She served as Secretary-General of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) from 2012 to 2014.