User:Junehutchison
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Dr June Bam-Hutchison served as the first CEO of the South African History Project within the National Ministry of Education, 2001-2004, under the then Minister of Education, Professor Kader Asmal. She headed curriculum transformation processes in history teaching in a post-conflict context and also served on the advisory committee of Freedom Park, and was a member of Iziko Museums Council, the Cape Medical Museum on indigenous knowledge systems, and Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated.
She grew up on the Cape Flats during apartheid in South Africa as June Charles in Rondevlei and in Grassy Park, and attended the Cape Flats Distress Association Primary School and Grassy Park High School. She features as a character in the novel, Crossing the Line, by William Finnegan. Her role in the struggle against apartheid is also captured in Alan Wieder's Voices from Cape Town Classrooms. She was an anti-apartheid activist, authored several books in her field in the name of June Bam including A New History for a New South Africa, the story of the young black cricketer Paul Adams in the book Season of Magic and as co-editor of the guide for the teaching of the Unesco volumes on African History.
Graduate of the Universities of Cape Town (B.A., M.Ed.) and Stellenbosch (PhD), she is widely known for her work in memory, heritage, diversity. history teaching and post-conflict reconstruction and has delivered various talks over the last decade on the subject to international academic audiences in Europe including in Northern Ireland, Denmark and at SOAS, Oxford and Cambridge, in Africa, and in Australia. Elected Honorary Secretary of the African Studies Association (UK) from September 2008, she is also a Visiting Fellow at Kingston Business School, and has also been a Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and served as trustee for HopeHIV (UK).
She is married to UK Kingston University computer scientist Dr Chris Hutchison.
