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Interests

His research interests are in education policy sociology and the enactment of education policy within education and training practice, institutional provision, and in the workplace. His main intellectual interest is in youth, race and criminalisation in South Africa, looking specifically at youth socialisation in residential settings in South Africa and the links between race, vocational education provision, discipline, inequality and poverty, and social welfare and crime in educational discourse. His work explores both the empirical data level and the underpinning theoretical discourses of education, work and skills development - both in academic writing and for various consultancy projects. In a recent focus in Teacher Education, he explored how schools, post-school education institutions, and aspects of the workplace are caught up in social inclusion/exclusion and identity/social issues concerns and how this influences policy-making thinking, institutional development, and capacity-building in different domains. 

Summary of interests: Sociological study of school organisation and leadership; Sociological study of teachers’ work; South African schooling and inequality; TVET education debates
Inclusive education; Discipline and Education (crime and disorder)

Publications

• Sayed, Y., Badroodien, A., Hanaya, A., Rodriguez, D. (2017). Social Cohesion, Violence, and Education in South Africa. In Seedat, M., Suffla, S. & Christie, D. (eds.). Enlarging the Scope of Peace Psychology: African and World-Regional Contributions. Geneva: Springer International Publishing, pp.239 - 254
• Sayed, Y. & Badroodien, A. (2017). The Mandela Legacy: Examined through the shaping of teacher and teacher education policy in the immediate post-apartheid South Africa period (1994-1999). In Soudien, C. (ed.). Nelson Mandela: Comparative Perspectives of his Significance for Education. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, pp. 137-150
• De Kock, T., Sayed, Y., & Badroodien, A. (2017). Narratives of social cohesion: Bridging the link between school culture, linguistic identity and the English language. Education as Change (forthcoming)
• Sayed, Y., Badroodien, A., Salmon, T., McDonald, Z. (2016). Social Cohesion and Initial Teacher Education in South Africa. Educational Research for Social Change (ESRC), 5 (1), pp.54-69 
• Hoffman, N., Sayed, Y., & Badroodien, A. (2016). Different rules for different teachers: teachers’ views of professionalism and accountability in a bifurcated educated system. Journal of Education, No.65, 2016, pp.123-153
• Sayed, Y. & Badroodien, A. (2016). Teachers and Social Cohesion in the Global South: Expanding the Notion of Education Quality. Education as Change, Vol.20, No.3, December 2016, pp.1-14
• Badroodien, A. (2016). Editorial: Sustainable Educational Ecologies in the Southern African region (Special Issue). South African Review of Education, 22 (1), pp.1-9, 2016
• Badroodien, A. (2015). Education, Science and Mental Difference in South Africa. Southern African Review of Education, Vol 21, No 1, pp. 36-60
• Matope, J. & Badroodien, A. (2015). Youth perspectives of achievement: Is money everything? Perspectives in Education 33(3) 
• Badroodien, A. (2014). Reading Mandela: The shaping of teacher and teacher education policy. COMPARE: A Journal of Comparative & International Education, December 2014, Vol. 44, Issue 6, pp.960-987 
• Badroodien A. & Foubister, C. (2012). African Migrant Youth, Schooling, and Social Class in Cape Town. In Weis, L. & Dolby, N. (Eds.). Education and Social Class: Global Perspectives. New York: Routledge 
• Badroodien, A. (2011). From Boys to Men: The Education and Institutional Care of Coloured Boys in the Early Twentieth Century. South African Review of Education, Vol.17, No.1, 2011, pp. 1-20  
• Badroodien, A. (2007). Social institutions, Modernity, the City, and Identity making in South Africa. In Murray, N. & Shepherd, N. (2007). Desire Lines: Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-apartheid City. New York, Routledge. ISBN 0415701317