Knowledge, Power, and Legitimation: Reflections on Disrupting Privilege and Hegemonic Discourses in Global Education Research

• In Event: 46.085 - Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: 46.085-19 - Postcolonial Dialogues in Educational Research

Abstract

Between 2009 and 2013 I was Principal Investigator for a project: Global Partnerships as Sites for Mutual Learning. Rather than report on the findings, the purpose of this paper is to examine how what counts as valid knowledge and who decides (Apple, 2000) was central to the focus for investigation and to how the cross-cultural research team worked together. Drawing on postcolonial perspectives (Andreotti, 2011; Bryan, 2012) as well as postcolonial theorists such as Said, Bhabha and Spivak, I show how issues of knowledge, power and control are just as evident in the academy as they are in educational policy, with profound effects what gets funded, who funds it, where it is funded, and how it is disseminated.

Author

• Fran Martin, University of Exeter