ABSTRACT
Bringing together a unique collection of 18 insightful and innovative internationally focused articles, Educational Research Practice in Southern Contexts offers reflections, case studies, and critically, research methods and processes which decentre, reframe, and reimagine conventional educational research strategies and operationalise the tenets of decolonising theory.
This anthology represents a valuable teaching resource. It provides readers with the chance to read high-quality examples of research that critique current ways of doing research and to reflect on how research methods can contribute to the project of decolonising knowledge production in and about education in, for example, Africa, South Asia, Asia, and Latin America. It grapples with everyday dilemmas and tricky ethical questions about protection, consent, voice, cultural sensitivity, and validation, by engaging with real-world situations and increasing the potential for innovation and new collaborations.
Educational Research Practice in Southern Contexts will be essential reading for anyone teaching educational research methods and will encourage novice and experienced researchers to rethink their research approaches, disentangle the local and global, and challenge those research rituals, codes, and fieldwork practices which are often unproblematically assumed to be universally relevant.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|94 pages
Centring Southern experiences of education, knowledge and power
chapter 6|17 pages
Postcolonial Models, Cultural Transfers and Transnational Perspectives in Latin America
part II|92 pages
Reframing the codes, rules and rituals of educational research practice
chapter 1147|19 pages
Reflexivity and the Politics of Knowledge
chapter 8|17 pages
Non-Chinese Researchers Conducting Research in Chinese Cultures
chapter 9|21 pages
(Re)Centring the Spirit
chapter 10|15 pages
Fieldwork for Language Education Research in Rural Bangladesh
chapter 11|18 pages
Informed Consent in Educational Research in the South
part III|131 pages
Reimagining educational research approaches for emancipation