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Beyond saviour research: a critical synthesis of the CERM-ESA project celebration

Intruduction, part of: This chapter critiques the staging of Africa as a space in need of a saviours. Indeed, the saviours have already risen in the hearts and minds, and commitments of projects which move beyond the promotion of econometric markets, disguised elitist agendas or expansionist imitations of strategies crafted elsewhere. As a critical synthesis of the project of the anthology as a whole, this chapter attempts to open up questions about how research projects in the field of education research come to be designed, by whom, and with what intentions. The focus of these questions directs an analysis towards whose interests are being served by the agenda of the research being undertaken. Who are the ultimate beneficiaries of the research design we conduct? The chapter emphasises that the terrain of educational research is embedded within contestations and possibilities of collaborative efforts across many interlocuting partners both at the systemic macro-level and at the micro- and meso-level of personalised and localised classroom institutional spaces within different levels of the education system: primary, secondary and higher education. Hence the chapter is organized to reflect two overarching, interrelated sections ....

Uploaded by: Maretha Allwright
Author: Samuel, Michael Anthony
Institution: None | Centre: None
Type: Chapter in book | English | Peer Reviewed
Subjects: Education

Published in: Education research in African context: traditions and new beginnings for knowledge and impact. ISBN: 978-1-0672535-0-9 (paper), EISBN: 978-1-0672535-1-6 (eBook), EISBN: 978-1-0672535-2-3 (ePub) | Chapter 15
Publisher of document: Somerset West, Cape Town: African Minds
Date: 2024 | Pages: 233 - 255
https://www.africanminds.co.za/education-research/
Copyright: © 2024 African Minds | License: Open Access: CC BY 4.0