Subverting Knowledge Transfer Assumptions: Reflection Narratives From a Short-Term Study Abroad Trip to Ghana, West Africa

• In Event: 51.081 - Sheraton Roundtable Session Nine - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 51.081-4 - Study Abroad Access and Outcomes

Abstract

We offer condensed reflection-narratives on our learning through the Higher Education in the Ghanaian Context! program (HEGC!). Using the adinkra concepts of lifelong learning and sankofa, we subvert the assumption of the direction of knowledge transfer from the "Global North" to the "Global South." Through these reflection-narratives, we offer critical reflection as tools for engaging in educational research along with the theme of the American Educational Research Association conference by using these reflection narratives as evidence for questioning the transfer of knowledge.

Authors

• Jillian A. Martin, Washington University in St. Louis

• Autumn Griffin, University of Maryland - College Park

• Justine Hwei Chi Lee, University of Maryland - College Park

• Hana Zewdie, University of Maryland - College Park

• Candace Maddox Moore, University of Maryland, College Park

• Michael Boakye-Yiadom, University of Cape Coast