Salim Vally is a Senior Researcher/Lecturer at the Education Policy Unit, School of Education, University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. He had\s studied at the universities of York and the Witwatersrand. He was employed at the Wits Education Pol
...MoreSalim Vally is a Senior Researcher/Lecturer at the Education Policy Unit, School of Education, University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. He had\s studied at the universities of York and the Witwatersrand. He was employed at the Wits Education Policy Unit in 1995. Vally was a founding member of the South African Students Movement until its banning in 1977. In 1979 he left South Africa as a result of fierce repression by the erstwhile apartheid regime. He returned to South Africa to teach in township schools and spent eight years as a trade unionist in the then newly formed independent trade unions being a founding member of the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
He is the spokesperson of the Anti-War Coalition and the Palestine Solidarity Committee He serves on the boards of various non-governmental and professional organisations and is an active member of various social movements. Vally is also the co-ordinator of the Education Rights Project which works with communities in many townships and informal settlements around the country. He has published extensively in journals and books and is a regular commentator in the mass media. His research interests include the impact of globalisation on education, school violence, resistance and reproduction, curriculum developments, social movements and the academy and the nexus between poverty, social justice and education. Salim is also the recipient of the Visiting Scholar Award from the Institute for Social and Economic Research from the School of International and Public Affairs, University of Columbia. He belongs to a number of professional associations and editorial boards including the Editorial Advisory Board, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, University College, Northampton, the Centre for Civil Society, School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal and the Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape. He will be taking up a visiting professorship at his alma mater, York University, in September 2007.
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