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Power, control and identity.Ethical issues in researching North-South
study visits
AAG conference April 14th – 19th 2010Washington DC
Fran Martin, University of Exeter, UK.
Some definitions
• North – South• Global Educational Partnerships• Study visits, study visit courses
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The World is like a table. Twenty percent live on the table and eighty percent survive underneath it. Our work cannot be to move a few from under the table onto the table, or vice versa. Our task is to move the table, to change its position if necessary, and all to sit together around the table.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, cited by Hopkin (2002).
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The Project
Global Partnerships as sites for mutual learning: teachers’ professional development through study visits.
• Strategic: Two global partnerships, UK - Gambia & UK - India • Pedagogic: Two study visit courses, teachers and
educators
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Theoretical perspectives
Ontology
• Postcolonial theory (Said, 1985; Bhabha, 1994; Spivak, 1988)
Epistemology
• Intercultural experiences (Fiedler, 2007); Third space (Bhabha, 1994)
Methodology / pedagogy
• Participatory, ethnographic
• Pedagogy of ‘dissensus’ (de Souza, 2008)
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Research design
Challenges for research:
• How do I establish an ethical relation to the ‘other’ and avoid keeping ‘Western academy and the Western academic at the centre’ (Andreotti, 2007)?
• Western knowledge systems, indigenous knowledge systems: Learning to unlearn (Andreotti & de Souza, 2008)
• Recognition of dynamic nature of places, societies, cultures and the relationships between them (avoiding frozen narratives)
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UKTide~
DevelopmentEducation
Centre
GambiaNational
EnvironmentAgency
UKCanterbury
Christ ChurchUniversity
IndiaGoodwillChildren’s
Homes
Mutual, intercultural learning
UKPI and RF
Gambian Researcher
Indian Researcher
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Negotiating Access
• Asking difficult questions without compromising relationships built up with participants
• Risks of being up-front about own worldview
• Risks of raising profile of project through the press
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Researcher bias
• My own history with the organisations taking part
• Motes in my own eye?• Intercultural or intracultural issues?• Contradictions in my own practice
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Concluding comments
• Postcolonial spaces for learning?
• All to sit together around the table …
• Or remove the table, sit on the floor ….
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