BAICE Thematic Forum:Challenging deficit discourses in international education and development

Robinson-Pant, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3989-2272, Aikman, Sheila, Dyer, Caroline, Rao, Nitya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-0147, Rogers, Alan and Themelis, Spyros ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6681-4643 (2015) BAICE Thematic Forum:Challenging deficit discourses in international education and development. University of East Anglia.

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Abstract

Research and policy in international education has o en been framed in terms of a deficit discourse. For instance, policy debates on women’s literacy and education have begun by positioning women as a group who need to ‘catch up’ on certain skills in order to become more active in development. Rather than recognising the skills and knowledge that participants already have and prac se in their everyday lives, researchers who adopt this deficit perspective on learning and education may find that the research agenda and questions will already be shaped to a large extent by the providers’/ policy makers’ standpoint. This BAICE Thematic Forum aimed to deepen understanding around how deficit discourses have shaped the questions and objectives of international educational research. As well as deconstructing and gaining greater knowledge into why and how these dominant deficit discourses have influenced the research agenda, we also set out to investigate and propose alternative conceptual models through two linked seminars. The seminars were intended to explore and challenge dominant deficit discourses that have shaped the way researchers/policy makers look at specific groups in development and thematic policy areas.

Item Type: Book
Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 4 - quality education ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/quality_education
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Health and Disease
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Research in Higher Education and Society
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 01 Apr 2016 10:25
Last Modified: 22 Jun 2023 00:50
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/58080
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