ERIC Number: EJ1417951
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0010-4086
EISSN: EISSN-1545-701X
Available Date: N/A
From Capacity Building to Mutual Learning: Reconfiguring Knowledge Hierarchies in Humanitarian Partnerships
Zeena Zakharia
Comparative Education Review, v68 n1 p116-138 2024
This article offers insights into partnerships that support refugee teachers to adapt and sustain teaching and learning despite multiple compounding obstacles spurred by political and economic crises, disaster, and COVID-19. Drawing from a 3-year study of Syria refugee education in Lebanon (2018-21), I focus on one dimension of partnership that emerged from a dataset comprising 58 interviews and 31 site visits and observations of partnership activities--the principle of mutual learning. Through multidirectional knowledge sharing and a relinquishing of epistemic authority, partners navigated new obstacles presented by the pandemic and sustained education and professional support to Syria refugee teachers. The findings have implications for understanding and addressing critiques of refugee education related to knowledge-power asymmetries, demanding a shift in orientation from capacity building to mutual learning. The article offers empirical evidence of partnership practices that reconfigure knowledge hierarchies, disrupting Northern claims to epistemic authority in education in emergencies.
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Partnerships in Education, Refugees, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, Economic Climate, COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers, Criticism, Access to Education, Power Structure, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Teacher Attitudes
University of Chicago Press. Journals Division, P.O. Box 37005, Chicago, IL 60637. Tel: 877-705-1878; Tel: 773-753-3347; Fax: 877-705-1879; Fax: 773-753-0811; e-mail: subscriptions@press.uchicago.edu; Web site: http://www.press.uchicago.edu
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Syria
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: N/A