Can We Picture Equity? Critically Examining Cross-Cultural Short-Term Project Collaborations.

Autor: Clarke-De Reza, Sara, Coppens, Andrew D., Devi Gopal, Shakuntala, Honwad, Sameer, Niphadkar, Madhura, Rangnekar, Shraddha
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Zdroj: Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad; Oct2022, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p203-238, 36p
Abstrakt: This paper explores equity challenges common to short-term cross-cultural research partnerships. We focus on a project-based activity in which U.S. undergraduate students and college faculty taught middle-school students in Goa, India how to make podcasts about complex environmental problems. Project team members conducted a collaborative auto-ethnography focused on questions of power, leadership, collaboration, and equity, and examined exit- interview photo elicitation data to identify the core challenges of ethical and equitable short-term cross-cultural research and programming. Our use of photographs as conversation prompts helped to highlight contradictions and asymmetries along axes of power, cultural imperialism, knower-knowledge, age, race/ethnicity, social class, and gender. We reflect on possibilities for educational research that rejects a "voluntourism" model and moves, if imperfectly, toward more equitable international collaborations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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