South-To-South Knowledge Session at the 2018 WERA World Conference Cape Town, South Africa

Posted on August 12, 2018

Prof Liesel Ebersöhn (Director of the Centre for the Study of Resilience) chaired the South-to-South Working Session sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Resilience that took place on 2 August 2018 at the Westin Grand, Cape Town, South Africa. The session entitled “WERA South-to-South working session: A Global South Perspective on Education Research” aimed to plan action strategies based on a collaborative decision (San Antonio, 2017) to synthesise knowledge around education research issues common to Global South contexts. A premise of the group is that Global South spaces share characteristics because of similar postcolonial histories. Members from different Global South countries all have knowledge of innovative solutions where education intervention has contributed to positive learning, wellbeing, and development outcomes for students, teachers, and/or school-communities. The contextual and geopolitical similarities encompass both risk factors that serve as barriers that constrain education (with inequality foremost amongst these), as well as protective resources that provide opportunities to enable education (socio-cultural capital, multilingualism, agricultural activities and mineral wealth). The main emphasis of the session was to prioritise actions to reach objectives co-generated in April 2017 by leveraging functions and structures that already exist in each participating country, institutions and associations.

An overarching theme for the next three years (Aug 2018- Aug 2021) was established as ‘How is culture and context accommodated to enable quality education in the global south?’. The theme can be deliberated from a range of perspectives on education research topics (from policy, to teaching and instruction, to teacher professional development, issues of multilingualism, social transformation, and so forth). 

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