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Jennifer Agbaire

Jennifer Agbaire

Jennifer Agbaire is a Lecturer in Education at the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University. She currently Chairs the Open University鈥檚 Masters in Education Stage 2 Inclusive Practice module and is the Deputy Chair of the dissertation module. She also co-leads Early Career Researcher (ECR) development at the OU鈥檚 Centre for the Study of Global Development (CSGD). Her teaching, research, impact and knowledge exchange work centre issues of social inequalities, educational inclusion, equity and social justice 鈥 her work particularly stem from her interest in marginalised identities. Jennifer鈥檚 interest and work also extends to community-centred creative, co-creative and innovative research approaches as well as the ethics and inclusivity of research and professional practices. She is involved in interdisciplinary and multi-partnership projects in these areas, with experience that spans access, policy, leadership, teaching and teacher education across all levels of education.

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?

women collaborating

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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