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Alison Buckler

Alison Buckler

Alison Buckler is a Senior Research Fellow at The Open University where she is Co-Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Development. Her work focuses on using creative and narrative approaches to researching education, and she is the co-founder of the Ibali Network which supports people interested in using storytelling methodologies. She has been a member of the 糖心传媒 Executive Committee since 2015, serving as Secretary between 2018-2020, and Vice-Chair between 2020-2024.

Re-imagining and re-bordering conference spaces and edges: anticipatory reflections from the coordinators of 糖心传媒 2024鈥檚 Borderless sub-theme

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The theme for 糖心传媒 2024 calls for a 鈥榬adical re-imagining鈥� and 鈥榬e-bordering鈥� of the work of education that goes beyond the rhetoric. Our starting point for the borderless sub-theme was a desire to reimagine (some of) the borders within the parallel-session convention of academic conferences.

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Storytelling as a research methodology

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This podcast episode is a conversation with the team working on the Ibali Network Project. The Ibali Network is a collective of researchers from the UK, Nigeria and South Africa. The team uses storytelling to explore commonalities and differences of how inclusion and exclusion are experienced across education systems in South Africa, Nigeria and the UK, combined with a critical, ethnographic evaluation of the storytelling research process.

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Storytelling research in international education and development: a resistance to, or reproduction of coloniality?

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Storytelling is gaining popularity as a methodology in the field of international education and development. It is seen to offer an antidote to modernist, big-data research that positions people at the centre of interventions as homogenous and, instead, connect the鈥�

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Compare: Journal of Comparative and International Education – A reflection on the 50th Anniversary Retrospective

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It is poignant that Compare鈥檚 juncture of a half century and subsequent opportunity for contemplation of past, present and future came in a year in which academics were forced to pause and reflect on so many other levels: the uncertainties of Brexit and its implications for travel, funding and collaboration

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