Confronting Old Habits Overseas

Stonebanks, Christopher Darius

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“…: Perils and Potential of International Experiential Learning. However, we did not want to repeat these same models (Stonebanks C. D., 2014). So, from the outset of this AR project, the ethics that guided its creation focussed on the local Malawian community deliberating on what a GN university community could potentially do of use?…”

Section: The Ar Project: Tpmmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Acknowledging this lived experience, it must also be stated that such relationships are built upon the colonial history of Malawi. The new types of Kipling's (1899) "White Man's Burden" interactions that occur between the GN "researcher" and the GS "participant" are still entrenched within top-down habits, despite intentions or claims of unity, equality, equity or partnership (Stonebanks C. D., 2014). In Easterly's (2006) The white man's burden: Why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good, he critiques that most not-for-profit and/or non-governmental-organization (NGO) encounters between GN and GS are still effectively intertwined with the sentiments of Kipling's top-down colonial model.…”

Section: Caplan`s Betrayal Question and Mphande`s Challengementioning

confidence: 99%

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Ethics and Action Research in Emancipation-Based Endeavours: Projects of Heart or Projects of Publication?

Bennett-Stonebanks,

Stonebanks,

Mphande

2019

CJAR

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University standards for attaining tenure-track positions, tenure, advancement of rank, and successful periodic evaluation in universities in the Global North primarily center on attainment of research grants and publications. This article considers the ethical implications of these values when action research projects are carried out with impoverished communities in the Global South. Simultaneously, when impoverished communities in the Global South work with Global North universities, they often do so with the experiences of universities and other foreign organizations (religious charities, non-government-organizations, not-for-profits, etc.) having timeframes and funding allocations set to standards of the usual two to five years, along with the knowledge that the “foreign-researcher” will, more than likely, be transient in their lives. Understandably, this relationship of competing needs and dedication will shift moralities of the impoverished community and “local-researcher” given the growing understanding that the foreign-researcher’s commitment is often tied to institutionally required outputs that give them little benefit. This article uses reflexivity to expose the often-challenging experiences of three Action Researchers in different situations as they work on a liberation, emancipation and social-justice based project focusing on Education, Health and Development in a rural region of central Malawi.

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Section: The Ar Project: Tpmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Caplan`s Betrayal Question and Mphande`s Challengementioning

confidence: 99%