Room 3.39, 6 Neville Alexander Building, Lover’s Walk

Stream: Education Policy, Leadership & Change
 
Interests

Ashley’s research interests are in education and social justice, critical policy studies in education, teacher and student activism, political habitus formation and Bourdieuan studies in education.

Publications 

Book Chapter

• Visagie, A., Rousseau, H., Hoosain, T., Adams, I., Cloete, J., & Mennas, T. (2024). "Our Ideas Were Welcomed”: Disrupting the Teacher/Student Binary in a Collaborative Writing Project With High School Students in South Africa. In H. M. A. Williams, H. Huskic, & C. M. Noto (Eds.), Disrupting Hierarchy in Education: Students and Teachers Collaborating for Social Change. Teachers College Press. https://www.tcpress.com/disrupting-hierarchy-in-education-9780807769768

Journals

• Tarlau, R., Campos, J., & Visagie, A. (2025). Teachers’ unions, educator organising, and global struggles for educational justice. Globalisation Societies and Education, 23(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2024.2429922
• Black, S., & Visagie, A. (2024). ‘We are not ready’ – contradictions and contestations in basic education organising in South Africa at the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Globalisation Societies and Education, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2024.2302030
•  Walsh, A., Sutherland, A., Visagie, A., & Routledge, P. (2020). ImaginingOtherwise: A glossary of arts education practice on the Cape Flats. ArtsPraxis, 7(2b), 53–78.

Online media 

• Visagie, A., Carrim, H., & Angier, K. (2023, November 28). How should we teach in a time of genocide when teachers are being silenced?
• Visagie, A. (2023, September 22). Reimagining school safety in South Africa.
• Visagie, A. (2021, March 17). School ‘dropouts’ are not so much failures as victims of a hostile and skewed system.
• Visagie, A., Black, S., & Guzula, X. (2020, July 15). Public schools are under siege: It’s time to drastically revise their funding model.
• Black, S., & Visagie, A. (2020, January 30). Skewed systems: The (un)reality of postgraduate student funding.

Resources

• Visagie, A & Trantraal, A. (2021). Imagining Otherwise Comix. Changing The Story