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Facilitating Knowledge Democracy in a Global North/South Academic Collaboration
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Meredith, Margaret; Quiroz-Niño, Catalina – Educational Action Research, 2022
This article explains an action research response to the need for knowledge democracy in research projects between academics in global North and global South countries. It argues that if unspoken assumptions about knowledge creation are left unexamined, such collaborations can replicate forms of 'epistemic injustice'. The paper is premised on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, International Cooperation, Democracy
Getting Students out There; Using Community Partnerships to Engage Students
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Cain, Liz; Goldring, John E.; Scott Jones, Julie – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to discuss the "Q-Step in the Community" programme, part of the Q-Step Centre based in the Sociology Department at Manchester Metropolitan University, designed to help address the skills gap in quantitative methods (QM) that is evident across parts of the UK higher-education sector. "Q-Step in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Sociology, Statistical Analysis
Enriching the Values of Micro and Small Business Research Projects: Co-Creation Service Provision as Perceived by Academic, Business and Student
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Thatcher, James; Alao, Hanan; Brown, Christopher J.; Choudhary, Shahriar – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
The National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education (1996) chaired by Lord Dearing envisioned a university sector central to the UK's knowledge-based economy. With successive government support the university-business partnership ideology has been put into practice. Widening participation has increased in emphasis over recent years, providing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Experiential Learning
A Discussion of a Unique Collaboration Model between Schools
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de Klerk, Werner; Nienaber, Alida W. – Online Submission, 2011
The schools located in many township and rural areas of South Africa struggle to provide a high standard of education, because many of the inhabitants of these areas are very poor and there is, thus, a lack of the funding required for the necessary educational equipment. The Afri Twin project, started by Jayne Martin, addresses this problem. The…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, Questionnaires, Research Projects
Training Humanities Doctoral Students in Collaborative and Digital Multimedia
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Ensslin, Astrid; Slocombe, Will – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
This study reports on the pedagogic rationale, didactic design and implications of an AHRC-funded doctoral training scheme in collaborative and digital multimedia in the humanities. In the second part of this article we discuss three areas of provision that were identified as particularly significant and/or controversial. These include (1) desktop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Desktop Publishing, Humanities, Multimedia Materials
Challenging the Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion with Off Limits Curricula.
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Preece, Julia – 2000
Educational strategies for social inclusion are based on particular definitions that do not always take account of the complexities of exclusion and inclusion. By attempting to "normalize" the unemployed and disaffected, social inclusion efforts often legitimate the status quo of systems that might otherwise be regarded as contributing…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Learning