Educational Research Practice in Southern Contexts

Sharlene Swartz is Head of the Equitable Education and Economies research division at the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa. Nidhi Singal is a Professor of Disability and Inclusive Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. Madeleine Arnot is Emerita Professor in Sociology of Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.

1. Recentring, reframing and reimagining the canons of educational research PART 1: RECENTRING SOUTHERN EXPERIENCES OF EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE AND POWER 2. Towards a postcolonial research ethics in comparative and international education 3. Researching disability and education: Rigour, respect, and responsibility 4. Decentring hegemonic gender theory: The implications for educational research 5. Indigenous anti-colonial knowledge as ‘heritage knowledge’ for promoting Black/African education in diasporic contexts 6. Postcolonial models, cultural transfers and transnational perspectives in Latin America: A research agenda PART 2: REFRAMING THE CODES, RULES, AND RITUALS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH PRACTICE 7. Reflexivity and the politics of knowledge: Researchers as ‘brokers’ and ‘translators’ of educational development 8. Non-Chinese researchers conducting research in Chinese cultures: Critical reflections 9. (Re)Centering the spirit: A spiritual black feminist take on cultivating right relationships in qualitative research 10. Fieldwork for language education research in rural Bangladesh: Ethical issues and dilemmas 11. Informed consent in educational research in the South: Tensions and accommodations PART 3: RE-IMAGINING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH APPROACHES FOR EMANCIPATION 12. Indigenous data, indigenous methodologies and indigenous data sovereignty 13. Focus groups and methodological rigour outside the minority world: Making the method work to its strengths in Tanzania 14. Social Network Interviewing as an emancipatory Southern methodological innovation 15. Getting the picture and changing the picture: Visual methodologies and educational research in South Africa 16. Entering an ambiguous space: Evoking polyvocality in educational research through collective poetic inquiry 17. Researching family lives, schooling and structural inequality in rural Punjab: The power of a habitus listening guide 18. Pedagogy of absence, conflict, and emergence: Contributions to the decolonisation of education from the Native American, Afro-Portuguese and Romani experiences