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View article: Denaturalizing “Intelligence” in Higher Education: <scp>AI</scp> as a Rupture to Imagining and Manifesting Sustainable and Anti‐colonial Literacies
Denaturalizing “Intelligence” in Higher Education: <span>AI</span> as a Rupture to Imagining and Manifesting Sustainable and Anti‐colonial Literacies Open
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has threatened higher education (HE). In doing so it has granted a portal that makes visible the dominant paradigm that has long defined what “intelligence” is and the narrow set of knowledges and literacies sa…
View article: Policy impacts in dynamic relation to food, income, learning and security: COVID-19 lockdowns in a Nigerian Agrarian Community
Policy impacts in dynamic relation to food, income, learning and security: COVID-19 lockdowns in a Nigerian Agrarian Community Open
Whose Crisis? The Global COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of communities in Africa is an international research project that aims to investigate and represent the diverse experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic from those marginalized b…
View article: Survival versus sustaining: A multidisciplinary inquiry of the environmental dilemma in rural Uganda
Survival versus sustaining: A multidisciplinary inquiry of the environmental dilemma in rural Uganda Open
The livelihoods of the majority of Uganda's population depend on declining environmental resources. The sustainability of the natural environment requires that the people who are interdependent with it, as well as the structures of governa…
View article: Stakeholders’ perceptions of wetland conservation and restoration in Wakiso District, Uganda
Stakeholders’ perceptions of wetland conservation and restoration in Wakiso District, Uganda Open
Natural wetlands are critically important to the lives and livelihoods of many people. Human activities result in the degradation of wetlands globally, and more so in developing countries prioritizing fast economic growth and development. …
View article: Researching Without “Methods”: An Experiment in Socio-Ecological Sustainability Research With Rural Communities
Researching Without “Methods”: An Experiment in Socio-Ecological Sustainability Research With Rural Communities Open
This article describes an improvisatory or ‘no method’ research approach in socio-ecological sustainability in two rural Ugandan communities. A team of multidisciplinary researchers purposed to understand how rural community members make s…
View article: Changing Conceptions of Literacy: Pluriversal Literacies
Changing Conceptions of Literacy: Pluriversal Literacies Open
«We are being stunted by a form of critical illiteracy», state Tierney, Smith and Kan, and «our global scholarship is facing a crisis of similar proportion to that of climate change […] because we are insufficiently ‘reading the world’, in…
View article: “I see salt everywhere”: A qualitative examination of the utility of arts-based participatory workshops to study noncommunicable diseases in Tanzania and Malawi
“I see salt everywhere”: A qualitative examination of the utility of arts-based participatory workshops to study noncommunicable diseases in Tanzania and Malawi Open
The burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) including hypertension, diabetes, and cancer, is rising in Sub-Saharan African countries like Tanzania and Malawi. This increase reflects complex interactions between diverse social, environmen…
View article: “<i>I see salt everywhere</i>”: A qualitative examination of the utility of arts-based participatory workshops to study noncommunicable diseases in Tanzania and Malawi
“<i>I see salt everywhere</i>”: A qualitative examination of the utility of arts-based participatory workshops to study noncommunicable diseases in Tanzania and Malawi Open
The burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) including hypertension, diabetes and cancer, is rising in Sub-Saharan Africa countries like Tanzania and Malawi. This increase reflects complex interactions between diverse social, environmenta…
View article: Research partnerships across international contexts: a practice of unity or plurality?
Research partnerships across international contexts: a practice of unity or plurality? Open
Partnership is not a benign practice; it is culturally and ethically loaded. The way in which partnerships are construed in international research determines its design, ethics and impacts. Despite this, and the growing assumption of partn…
View article: Imagining research together and working across divides: Arts-informed research about young people’s (post) digital lives
Imagining research together and working across divides: Arts-informed research about young people’s (post) digital lives Open
Research that ‘grows apart’ from its original design and proposal is not uncommon, especially when involving participatory and creative methods. However, the disconnect between research intentions and research realization is seldom probed …
View article: Reading with drama: relations between texts, readers and experiences
Reading with drama: relations between texts, readers and experiences Open
This article explores the intersections of drama and reading, specifically focusing on approaches that are situated within “drama in education.” Supported with a retrospective analysis, this article portrays the research, related practice …
View article: A Conversation on Sustainability in Teaching Practice
A Conversation on Sustainability in Teaching Practice Open
The recently launched Community of Practice in Sustainability in Teaching and Learning is a group of committed staff who bring both questions and solutions to the issue of sustainability in our teaching practices. The question that we hear…
View article: Whose Crisis? COVID-19 Explored through Arts and Cultural Practices of African Communities
Whose Crisis? COVID-19 Explored through Arts and Cultural Practices of African Communities Open
The “Whose Crisis?” project is in response to a continually evolving global health pandemic, COVID-19. In this context, the dominant discourses have been generated in the Global North, overwhelmingly by a minority of wealthy and powerful a…
View article: The Future of Cancer and Collective Intelligence in the Post-Covid World
The Future of Cancer and Collective Intelligence in the Post-Covid World Open
The Future of Cancer and Collective Intelligence in the Post-Covid World project was jointly conceived by the Innovation School at Glasgow School of Art and the Institute of Cancer Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Graduating year Pro…
View article: Pluriversal Literacies: Affect and Relationality in Vulnerable Times
Pluriversal Literacies: Affect and Relationality in Vulnerable Times Open
Through a consideration of literacies in theory and international policy, this article pushes at the edges of existing frameworks of functional and sociocultural literacies. In critique of existing policy directives, the author explores an…
View article: Introducing Offlineness: Theorizing (Digital) Literacy Engagements
Introducing Offlineness: Theorizing (Digital) Literacy Engagements Open
In this Insights essay, we propose a new concept of offlineness that builds on current language around digital practices, yet addresses an element of young people’s experience that is not adequately represented in current research or educa…
View article: A Critical Resource for Ethical International Partnerships
A Critical Resource for Ethical International Partnerships Open
This Resource is co-written by colleagues from Uganda, Botswana, Italy, Malawi, Canada, Bangladesh, and Scotland. Drawing on experiences of international, interdisciplinary and cross sector projects it explores the elements of partnership …
View article: Pluriversal literacies: Affect and relationality in vulnerable times: Abrief review
Pluriversal literacies: Affect and relationality in vulnerable times: Abrief review Open
The article, “Pluriversal Literacies: Affect and Relationality in Vulnerable Times”, published in Reading Research Quarterly (doi:10.1002/rrq.312), is an exploration of literacies as they manifest in very different contexts of the world, a…
View article: Transforming international development
Transforming international development Open
THE SUSTAINABLE FUTURES IN AFRICA (SFA) NETWORK The Sustainable Futures in Africa (SFA) Network is an interdisciplinary collective that brings together researchers, educators, and communities of practice that acknowledge the situated and c…
View article: A collaborative approach to exploring the future of Cancer treatment and care in relation to Precision Medicine: A design perspective.
A collaborative approach to exploring the future of Cancer treatment and care in relation to Precision Medicine: A design perspective. Open
The Precision Medicine and the Future of Cancer project was jointly conceived by the Innovation School at Glasgow School of Art and the Institute of Cancer Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Graduating year Product Design students from…
View article: Unpacking the imaginary in literacies of globality
Unpacking the imaginary in literacies of globality Open
As global mobility and communications proliferate, ever-increasing exchanges and influences occur across cultures, geographies, politics, and positions. This paper addresses the practice of literacy education in this context, and in partic…
View article: What counts as creativity in education? An inquiry into the intersections of public, political, and policy discourses
What counts as creativity in education? An inquiry into the intersections of public, political, and policy discourses Open
In this essay, the authors examine the varied public, everyday, and academic discourses of creativity that combine to influence our current educational goals and policies, particularly in North America and Europe. From Sir Ken Robinson’s (…