- Title
- Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education (occasional papers): International Network on Gender Social Justice and Praxis
- Creator
- Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education (CEEHE)
- Relation
- Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education. Occasional Paper, Issue 2, October 2017
- Relation
- https://www.newcastle.edu.au/research-and-innovation/centre/ceehe/publications
- Resource Type
- working paper
- Description
- The Network will continuously and explicitly turn the gaze on itself as a structure. The Network recognises the danger of claiming to be an ‘international’ network with geographic diversity while perpetuating historical privileges of the West and the North (e.g. privileging Western/Northern scholarship; language hegemony). The Founding Members recognise that networks are forms of social capital, deeply embedded in the reproduction of social privileges and advantages, and that power relations must be explicitly reflected upon in our work. This Occasional Paper is produced in the spirit of exchange with a wider community of praxis. By sharing the work produced from the Durban meeting, including papers from the Founding Members outlining their projects, we hope to create a dialogic space of praxis and reflexivity with others working on gender and social justice projects. The pieces that follow present a real-time ‘look’ at the ways we are conducting work rooted in feminist and critical (particularly Freirean) praxis; they are intentionally ‘working’ papers–a snapshot of where we have been, where we are, and where we are headed. The pieces explore such interwoven issues of re/imagining theories, methodologies, pedagogies, and policies. Drawing on Gyamera and Burke’s letter writing as a methodology to explore gender inequalities in higher education, the Founding Members exchanged letters to capture their experiences of the 2016 meeting, their aspirations and hopes for The Network and the issues that they identified as significant. The letters are included in this collection together with a reflective piece on letter writing as a methodology (Ronelle Carolissen, Nonhlanha Mthiyane, and Penny Jane Burke). This reflection explores feminist writing methodologies and praxis, and offers an analysis and engagement with the letters and poems exchanged by the Founding Members following our first in-person meeting in Durban, South Africa in August 2016. The remaining three papers emerged from the Founding Members’ work within The Network. Sondra Hale and Gada Kadoda chronicle their collaboration towards creating social justice spaces in Sudan, including an exploration of the significance of their friendship within the context of knowledge production. Gifty Gyamera with Penny Jane Burke explores the impact of neoliberalism on female academics in universities in Ghana using letter-writing methodology. Lauren Misiaszek considers her ongoing book manuscript on critical and feminist global citizenship education with a specific focus on conceptualising methodologies, ethics, and sensitivities in ‘hard spaces’. We invite you to engage with and make connections between the pieces, as well as with your own work. The collection presents an ongoing challenge for social justice research; how might we draw on research to make a difference in ways that do not oversimplify the complex experiences of inequalities in and across social, cultural and pedagogical contexts and in relation to formations of power and difference. CONTENTS: Introduction to the International Network on Gender, Social Justice and Praxis by Penny Jane Burke and Lauren Ila Misiaszek - Constructing a Radical World of Imagination Through Feminist (Writing) Methodologies and Praxis by Penny Jane Burke - An Analysis of Letter Writing as Feminist, Freirean Praxis by Ronelle Carolissen and Nonhlanha Mthiyane - Chronicle of Collaboration: Toward Creating Social Justice Spaces in Sudan by Sondra Hale and Gada Kadoda - Exploring the Impact of Neoliberalism on Female Academics in Universities in Ghana by Gifty Gyamera with Penny Jane Burke - Reflections on book-writing in progress: Exploring the Complexities in Global Citizenship Education: Hard Spaces, Methodologies, and Ethics by Lauren Ila Misiaszek.
- Subject
- occasional papers; education; gender roles; social justice; praxis; feminism; collaboration; neoliberalism; Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education. Occasional Paper
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1413123
- Identifier
- uon:36584
- Identifier
- ISSN:2206-4362
- Language
- eng
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