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Strengthening Development Education Practice in the Higher Education Sector: Re-imagining Research

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Development Education in Policy and Practice

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This chapter examines the case tor development education research, explores the relationship between research and development, education in the higher education sector and considers the implications for development education capacity and practice- it suggests a number of ways in which research enhances development education capacity, but argues that ‘research’ and the academic contribution need to be reimagined to address problematic divides. Dover’s reimagination of ‘scholarships’ reconnects research to an ecology of practice comprising engagement, inter-disciplinary collaboration and teaching. However, “’engagement’” is not necessarily synonymous with ‘compliance’ The situation of public higher education is discussed and the chapter concludes with some reflections about global visions of research and the particular relevance of critical, defiant, humanistic and rights-based versions of development education for a sector facing info globalisation, crisis and the pressures of relentless reform.

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  1. School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Su-ming Khoo (Lecturer, Vice-Dean for Internationalisation (College of Arts)

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Khoo, Sm. (2014). Strengthening Development Education Practice in the Higher Education Sector: Re-imagining Research. In: McCloskey, S. (eds) Development Education in Policy and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137324665_8

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