engaging teachers as agents of peace and social cohesion: understanding impact
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Yusuf Sayed
Presented at CIES Taking Stock and Looking Forward Annual Conference 2016, Vancouver, Canada, 7-10 March
Engaging teachers as agents of peace and social cohesion:
understanding impact
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Research Impact Pathways (the linear model)
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Research Impact Pathways (the process embedded model)
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The main research question that guides this study is:
To what extent do education peacebuilding interventions in countries promote teacher agency and capacity to build peace and reduce inequalities?
In answering this question we pay particular attention to how they seek to mitigate gender, ethnic, religious and socio-economic inequities to, in and through education.
Research Overview
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Impact as publication: conceptual
Popular Press release National press University
website External
website Social media
Academic Reports Authored books Chapters in books Journal article Conference contribution Working paper Policy briefs
Open data
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Impact as engagement: networks and connectivity
Four key modes:
Workshops with stakeholders
Critical Reference Group
Targeted Policy Workshops
Roundtables
Several main targets:
Government but also parts of government
Government to government
Communities of researchers
CSOs
Policy engagement Networking
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Institutional and individual
PG students in the project
Junior staff in the project
Research capacity as impact
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Think-tanks NGOs Professional Associations Consultants Education officials
Impact mediators
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Ideas and discourse (the policydilemma?)
Non-correspondence between research and policy and practice
Capacity development limited by grant time limits
North-South dynamics and dialectic
Limits
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Context embeddedness
The conjunction of politics and biography
The conjunction of time and space
The external shock – xenophobia in South Africa as reason for why the project took on importance
The impact of chance
Impact as contingent and opportune