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Patricia Ward; Muath Abudalu – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
What explains why reductive explanations of social phenomena in the global South persist? This paper addresses this question by considering how researchers' assumptions of their positionality premised upon global North-South explanations of power shape "how" they collect and determine the scope of their data. Building upon standpoint…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Social Science Research, Power Structure, Researchers
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Sulley Ibrahim; Line Kuppens; Justin Sheria Nfundiko – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
In this article, we scrutinise the importance of researchers' positionality vis-à-vis the 'Global South'/'North' binary in the field of international and comparative education. Accounting for the different places we speak from, we reflect on our past experiences as doctoral researchers examining teachers' role as agents of peace and/or conflict in…
Descriptors: Researchers, Decolonization, Power Structure, Developing Nations
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Lynch, Renee; Young, Jason C; Jowaisas, Chris; Boakye-Achampong, Stanley; Sam, Joel – Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study investigates 'partnership' as a key discursive tool for extending neoliberalism in the field of international development. As a case study, it examines the language-in-use among development organizations when discussing public libraries as potential partners in Africa. Critical discourse analysis of 20 interviews with development…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Power Structure, Economic Development, Case Studies
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Munyaradzi Hwami – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2025
This critical interpretive study aims to contribute to the scholarship that calls for epistemological recognition and representation of the global South. This call is seen as displacing questions of redistribution. The article utilizes interviews and focus group sessions with Kazakhstani graduate students to explore their experiences and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Systems, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
Menashy, Francine – Teachers College Press, 2019
Partnerships are now pervasive in global education and development, but are they creating equitable, cooperative, and positive relationships? Through case studies of prominent multistakeholder partnerships--including the Education Cannot Wait Fund and Global Partnership for Education--as well as a comprehensive analysis of the global education…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Global Education, Educational Finance, International Programs
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Smith, Christopher – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers and students are often pressured to use generic, globally published textbooks featuring 'inner-circle' social realities. While some studies look at specific instances of content that socially marginalizes their intended audiences, few attempt comprehensive examinations of the multimodal ensembles on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Justice
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Pineda, Pedro; Gregorutti, Gustavo; Streitwieser, Bernhard – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2020
Analyzing the number of publications and proportion of corresponding authors of Latin American scholars and scholars from the German Max Planck Society (MPS) and the Leibniz Association (LA; 1954-2018), this article asks if North-South partnerships continue to represent power imbalances. Our bibliometric analysis indicates that (a) in comparison…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Scientific Research, Faculty Publishing, Authors
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Usman, Sidra – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
There are major structural issues in the higher education system in Pakistan leading to poor governance of institutions and questionable quality of education. This paper looks at the differences in the role of boards of governors in maintaining quality of education in both the public and the private sector universities in Pakistan. After having…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Higher Education, Governing Boards
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Ling, Peter; Mazzolini, Margaret; Giridharan, Beena – Australian Universities' Review, 2014
Increasingly, universities in developed countries are engaging in transnational education. Responsibilities and opportunities to exercise management and leadership in the provision of transnational education depend on the organisational model adopted and whether the academics involved are on home or international campuses. Models range from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, International Education, College Administration
Jeffery, Roger – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
The challenges of ensuring equity among partners of very different academic power and status, across continents, within complex research projects involving differing disciplines with their own norms, and balancing needs for capacity development of individuals and for institutions can be major sources of conflicts. While each of these concerns has…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Science Research, Power Structure, Capacity Building
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Langthaler, Margarita; Witjes, Nina; Slezak, Gabriele – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about the developmental value of knowledge by reflecting on the "knowledge for development" (K4D) paradigm. In particular, it draws attention to the interaction between linguistic and communicative processes and the areas of power, knowledge and education. This is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Nelson, Anne H. – 1978
Women of many nations, particularly the industrialized countries, are achieving greater opportunity and equality in the working world. The rate at which women are joining the work force has confounded all predictions and created unexpected difficulties in securing equal pay and access to jobs and training. The most direct discrimination, separate…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Developed Nations, Discriminatory Legislation, Employed Women