Creator
Ashley Visagie
Ashley Visagie, a Canon Collins scholar studying for his PhD in education at the University of Cape Town. He is also a co-founder of Bottomup, an organisation that promotes critical thinking and social justice among high-school youth, and a member of Thinking Space, a radical scholarship collective
How should we teach in a time of genocide when teachers are being silenced?
Given South Africa’s history of colonialism and apartheid, learners are asking why Israel is called an apartheid state but teachers have been told not to talk about power,…
Reimagining school safety in South Africa
Interventions aimed at reducing violence in schools often have the opposite effect
Towards a people’s economics of education
Reopening of schools seems to be less about the teachers, parents and students and more about desperate attempts to rescue our failing and unsustainable capitalist economy
Black youth can’t wait until tomorrow
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the raw realities of South Africa’s under-resourced public schools