Ashley Visagie

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Ashley Visagie is an education researcher and activist working to promote critical awareness and social action toward a more just, nurturing and sustainable future. With a strong foundation in critical social theories, Ashley has completed an M.A. from Regent University and an M.Ed with distinction in Policy, Leadership & Change from the University of Cape Town (UCT). Currently, Ashley is pursuing a PhD in education at UCT, focusing on the emergence and formation of radical teacher activism through a Bourdieuean lens. Ashley’s scholarly activism in the public sphere reflects a deep concern for the inequitable and unjust education system in South Africa, particularly its impact on marginalised and socially excluded youth.

Research Project

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A political-economy analysis of emergent approaches in the education and schooling of subaltern youth in Cape Town

Education in South Africa has always been driven by an imagined future or multiple imagined futures of young people differentiated across lines of race, class and gender, through which policy is refracted. It would be naive to assume that in the ‘post- …

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