South African Representative

Dylan Wray is the co-founder and Director of Shikaya, a non-profit that works to develop teachers who are leaders in education, experts in their subjects and confident and enthusiastic about teaching. But more importantly, teachers who practice and promote, in their teaching, the values of the Constitution and are committed to using their subjects to develop young people who are responsible, caring and active democratic citizens.

Shikaya's core project is facing the past - transforming our future, which uses the case-studies of Nazi Germany and apartheid to help young people connect issues in the past to the moral choices they make today. Dylan Wray set up the project in 2003 and is still its project manager. As part of this project he has worked in Colombia, the United Kingdom, Germany and the Czech Republic.

Since 2002 Dylan has lectured the pre-service History teachers at the University of Cape Town and has developed numerous educational resources History textbooks for MacMillan, New Africa Books and Juta Gariep Publishers and most recently, he co-created the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation publication, Truth, Justice, Memory: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Process along with Max Du Preez.

Dylan was a history teacher for eight years. His final post was as Head of History at Wynberg Girls' High School, Cape Town.