To establish South-to-South education research group to serve as well-placed platform to integrated Global South scholarship evidence-based solutions of how the education sector and education researchers have addressed challenges of high risk and high need in postcolonial Southern hemisphere countries.
Objectives include:
The Centre for the Study of Resilience hosted a South-to-South (GRULAC) meeting with respective ambassadors on 16 Mei 2016 at the Postgraduate Research Commons, Education Library, Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria. The meeting envisioned for scientists from the global south to work together. Prof Liesel Ebersöhn indicated that shared global south characteristics included being postcolonial tradition, as well as using science to inform transformation towards equity and social justice and equitable distribution of resources. Other contextual commonalities include strong indigenous knowledge systems, urban-rural continuum in settlement, as well as traditions in mining and agriculture. The relevance of annual or bi-annual colloquia were discussed.
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