Cuban/U.S. Educational Boundaries: The Unspoken Political-Cultural Contexts of Research Agendas

• In Event: Poster Session 6
  In Poster Session: Cuban/U.S. Educational Boundaries: The Unspoken Political-Cultural Contexts of Research Agendas

Abstract

The ways in which we understand and interpret global research literature involving shared educational practices requires a common set of lenses within which to define research practices and paradigms used. Perhaps most importantly, we must recognize and value different political-cultural frames which enable us to articulate and identify educational concerns within our own nations. Our collaborative work as US and Cuban higher education faculty reminds us that political-cultural understandings are invisible to us as “insiders.” We must define and contextualize the cultural frames that surround our research practices in ways that allow us to illuminate the research-in-situ locally and internationally. This presentation explores and explicates these often-unrecognized cultural imperatives that underlie research expectations and understandings in the US and Cuba.

Authors

• Barbara Garii, SUNY - College at Oswego

• Joanne E. O'Toole, Syracuse University

• Barbara Streets, SUNY - College at Oswego

• Elvira Sabina Martin, University of Havana

• Adela Hernandez, Centro de Estudios para el Perfeccionamiento de la Educación Superior, Universidad de Habana

• Ana Rosa Rojas, Universidad de La Habana