Stephanie Matseleng Allais

About

Stephanie Matseleng Allais is Research Chair of Skills Development and Professor of Education at the Centre for Researching Education and Labour at Wits University. Her research is located in International and Comparative Education, and Education and Development, focused on relationships between education and work. Her research focuses both on political economy of transitions from education to work and curriculum and knowledge aspects of educational preparation for work, with a focus on developing countries. Her books include Knowledge, curriculum, and preparation for work, published in 2018 by Brill/SENSE, with Yael Shalem, and Selling Education Out: National Qualifications Frameworks and the abandonment of Knowledge, published in 2014 by Sense. She is an editor of the Journal of Vocational Education and Training, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Education and Work, The Curriculum Journal; the International Journal of Training and Development, Social Inclusion, and the Journal of Continuing and Adult Education. She is a visiting Professor in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Previously, she was a fellow at the Centre for Educational Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, and a research associate at the International Labour Organization. She has worked in government, distance education, trade union education, teaching high school, teaching adult basic education and training, and leading a student organization. She served on many committees by appointment of Ministers of Education in South Africa, has served as special advisor to the current Minister of Higher Education and Training, and has been involved in numerous policy processes.