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Can We Picture Equity? Critically Examining Cross-Cultural Short-Term Project Collaborations
- Source :
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Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad . Oct 2022 34(3):203-238. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This paper explores equity challenges common to short-term cross-cultural research partnerships. We focus on a project-based activity in which U.S. undergraduate students and college faculty taught middle-school students in Goa, India how to make podcasts about complex environmental problems. Project team members conducted a collaborative auto-ethnography focused on questions of power, leadership, collaboration, and equity, and examined exit interview photo elicitation data to identify the core challenges of ethical and equitable short-term cross-cultural research and programming. Our use of photographs as conversation prompts helped to highlight contradictions and asymmetries along axes of power, cultural imperialism, knower-knowledge, age, race/ethnicity, social class, and gender. We reflect on possibilities for educational research that rejects a "voluntourism" model and moves, if imperfectly, toward more equitable international collaborations.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1085-4568 and 2380-8144
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1359672
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v34i3.659