News articles

These matric exams are unfair: Listen to us, the students (with RCL students from Bottomup partner schools)

Towards a people’s economics of education

Opening schools during Covid-19 is a pyrrhic victory – and teachers are the cannon fodder (with Dr Sara Black)

Public schools are under siege: It’s time to drastically revise their funding model (with Dr Sara Black and Xolisa Guzula)

Black youth can’t wait until tomorrow

Respect the critical role teachers play (with the C19 Coalition Ed Working Group)

School ‘dropouts’ are not so much failures as victims of a hostile and skewed system

We need to fight for public policies that will end the bad education plaguing our schools

(a collaborative piece from the Writing for Justice students group)

School uniforms policies are deeply political

(From the media committee of ‘The Student Assembly’, a high school student forum supported by Bottomup)

Reimagining school safety in South Africa

Imagining Otherwise Stream Recordings

These discussions were part of “Imagining Otherwise”, a collaborative project between Bottomup, Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education (TCAE) and Changing the Story (at Leeds University).

Imagining Otherwise Comix

These comix for youth were created as part of “Imagining Otherwise”, a collaborative project between Bottomup, Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education (TCAE) and Changing the Story (at Leeds University).

IO COMIX

Comix to introduce critical sociological concepts and empower high school student activists.

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