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‘Out-of-school girls’: do we need to re-think the terminology?

For the past decade we have been working on a range of research and practitioner initiatives with adolescent and young women in southern Africa. Their lives have been distinct and diverse, with periods of financial comfort …

Combatting a poverty of play: revisiting the global landscape of post-pandemic play and learning

Famed developmental psychologist and English paediatrician Donald Winnicott said, “there is, for many, a poverty of play” (Playing and Reality, 1971). Despite play’s status in developmental literature as being key to both learning and wellbeing, Winnicott’s …
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Working at the confluence of research and implementation to support girls’ education: Reflections on the REAL Centre – CAMFED partnership

The partnership between the Research of Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre and the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) is centred around our mutual commitment to gender equality in and through education. This …
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BAICE OR REPLACE? My Experience of the 2022 BAICE Conference as a PhD Student

First, grab a cup of tea, coffee, water or whatever you enjoy drinking. This is going to be interesting… Attending academic conferences I believe is a tradition for researchers. So when the opportunity to participate in …
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Sharing experiences of youth partnership in conflict contexts: Reflections from the BAICE conference

The British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) 2022 Conference was held at the University of Edinburgh from September 13th to 15th. After two years of mostly virtual conferences, BAICE provided many scholars and practitioners …
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The impact of COVID-19 on education: Lessons learnt for access, quality, and pedagogy

This webinar focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in developed and developing countries. Bringing together scholars and practitioners in social sciences, it explores how education systems at various levels have responded to …
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Storytelling as a research methodology

This podcast episode is a conversation with the team working on the Ibali Network Project. The Ibali Network is a collective of researchers from the UK, Nigeria and South Africa. The team uses storytelling to explore …
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A Theatre of the Privileged Decolonial Café

In this interactive Café, we use theatre, stories, and games to examine the mechanisms of colonial reproduction in the international and comparative education sector and identify ways to collectively transform them.
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Learning through a UNESCO Chair partnership

In the Open Theme strand at the BAICE 2022 conference, this multi-media creative session will offer a space to reflect on some of the below questions, to find out more about a UNESCO Chair and share …
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Ibali: co-creating learning spaces in and through storytelling research activities 

In the ‘Experiencing Education Partnerships’ Sub-theme at the BAICE 2022 conference, we will do a creative session on storytelling as a research approach, drawing on our experiences of using the approach in international research.
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Sustainable development needs system thinking, but how to achieve it?

Illustration by Anusha Menon In this creative session in the Experiencing Educational Partnerships strand, participants will learn how to achieve systems thinking competence by following ten subsequent steps. The session will allow the group to identify …
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Reconceptualising knowledge production in Higher Education through collaborative collaging

In this creative and interactive session in the Open Theme strand at the BAICE conference 2022, participants are invited to engage in the process of collaborative collaging to explore the complexities of becoming/being a researcher adult. …