Anna Robinson-Pant
Biographic Data
| ID | 1022768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Robinson-Pant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson-Pant |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON-PANT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3989-2272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Cooperation, collaboration and compromise: Learning through difference and diversity
Multi-institutional and multi-professional research projects are valued for the impact and learning they generate, but their successful completion is crucially dependent on the various actors recognising their differences and working through/with them as a team. This paper is a critical reflection on one such participatory action research project, which involved new migrants and asylum seekers, an NGO, university researchers, and independent trai…
Literacy: A lever for citizenship
Within citizenship education, literacy is often promoted in a narrow functional sense of skills for civic engagement or is used synonymously with “knowledge” to refer to an awareness-raising process around rights. Through an analysis of evolving models of citizenship, this article moves beyond literacy for citizenship to consider the ways in which literacy learning can emerge through active citizenship. Drawing on published ethnographic studies o…
What's Going on Here?' Reflections on Brian Street's Contribution to Literacy Education
As a teacher and researcher of literacy, Brian Street introduced ethnographic inquiry to two quite different communities: adult literacy practitioners in India, Ethiopia and Uganda, and university students in the UK and USA. Through re-visiting his teaching materials and approaches, the article explores how he mediated key concepts within anthropology - such as ‘context’ and an ‘ethnographic frame of mind’ - through practical activities with univ…
Education for rural development: Forty years on
Education has long been considered a force for social transformation, influencing teaching-learning approaches and policy, including the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This article sets out to problematise the relationship between education and social change, proposing a theoretical framework around social transformation as an alternative to the usual development lens. A historical analysis of an education for rural development project impl…
Towards a reconceptualisation of family literacy: Exploring religious literacy learning and practices in two communities in Nepal
For many centuries, intergenerational literacy learning outside formal educational institutions has been an important part of everyday family life in Nepal. Yet, educational policy continues to focus on promoting ‘schooled’ approaches to literacy for both adults and children, overlooking informal learning and indigenous literacy practices in many communities today. Through exploring intergenerational religious literacy learning in Nepal, this pap…
Miriam McGregor: 21St March 1965 –26 th . November 2020
It is with great sadness that we share the news of Miriam McGregor’s death last month from cancer. Miriam’s energy, creativity and dedication enabled Compare to grow in popularity with readers, aut
Indigenous Women and Adult Learning
Inclusive education: Thinking beyond systems
Systems thinking has dominated debates and policy discourses on inclusive education, resulting in an almost exclusive focus on children and formal schooling. Based on the BAICE Presidential Lecture 2019, this paper considers the limitations of systems theory in framing discussion and research on inclusive education, introducing instead alternative theoretical starting points to analyse vignettes of from Ethiopia, Nepal, the UK and the Philippines…
Beyond authorship and accountability? The ethics of doctoral research dissemination in a changing world
Discussion of ethics in doctoral training courses usually focuses on the initial stages of planning and conducting field research. Shifting attention onto the responsibility of the researcher to share their findings throughout the research process, we set out to consider how doctoral students can conceptualise and engage ethically with research dissemination in the broader context of the globalised knowledge economy. A comparative analysis of the…
Indigenous adult women, learning and social justice: Challenging deficit discourses in the current policy environment
Indigenous education engages directly with an overtly politicised process of knowledge construction, recognising and building on existing skills and informal learning practices within communities. Given the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda’s emphasis on social justice and gender equality, this paper sets out to explore what indigenous movements can offer in terms of developing an alternative approach to adult learning based on a rights perspec…
Indigenous women and adult learning: Towards a paradigm change
In contemporary educational research, practice and policy, ‘indigenous women’ have emerged as an important focus in the global education arena. This Special Issue investigates what is significant a
Literacy
The cognitive skills of reading and writing are referred to as literacy. But meanings of literacy can also include the processes of interpreting gestures or emotions and even learning to read the world. Literacy has long been a contested term, shaped by research investigation from many different disciplines, including economics, anthropology, psychology, sociology, and linguistics. By focusing on literacy in different cultural contexts, anthropol…
Academic Literacies, Ethnographic Perspectives on
Ethnographic research has investigated academic institutions as sites where meaning making can be contested and/or collaborative and can lead to transformation in social relationships. Such perspectives contrast with dominant deficit discourses positioning academic literacy as a discrete set of neutral skills to be imparted to students. An ideological commitment to transforming unequal power relations distinguishes academic literacies from relate…
Women, literacy and health: Comparing health and education sectoral approaches in Nepal
Functional adult literacy interventions have been regarded for many decades by policy makers as an effective way of imparting health knowledge. Supported by research on the statistical relationships between women’s literacy rates and health indicators, this dominant policy discourse is based on assumptions that non-literate women lack understanding and confidence, and that formal programmes and institutions constitute the main sites of learning. …
Challenging deficit discourses in international education and development
Research and policy in international education has often been framed in terms of a deficit discourse. For instance, policy debates on women’s literacy and education have begun by positioning women
Women's right to learning and literacy: Women learning literacy and empowerment
Reflecting some of the perspectives of Robinson-Pant and Nabi, that women’s learning should be developmental and part of more holistic policies, Chopra focuses on the expressed learning interests of traditional midwives. She explores how a rights-based and social transformation approach to literacy learning could result in an impact on female feticide and infanticide
Research methodologies in the ‘South’
Globalisation and higher education in the Arab Gulf states
This book sets out to explore whether there may be ‘a magistracy of influence’ on higher education in the Arab Gulf region – ‘magistracy’ being defined as ‘a cohort of people, key players, policy m
Researching ethically across cultures: Issues of knowledge, power and voice
Student mobilities, migration and the internationalisation of higher education
by Rachel Brooks and Johanna Waters, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 195 pp., £58.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-230-57844-9This book offers so much more than the title suggests! I had expected a
Research ethics in comparative and international education: Reflections from anthropology and health
Within methodological debate on comparative and international education (CIE), issues around research ethics have rarely been directly interrogated. By bringing together insights from discussions in the fields of anthropology and health research, this paper aims to develop a ‘situated’ approach for exploring educational research ethics across cultures and institutions. The paper begins with a critique of the legalistic starting point on education…
Developing cultural capability in international higher education: A narrative inquiry
by Sheila Trahar, London, Routledge, 2011, 170 pp., $38.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-57239-2, $130 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-57238-5 I ended this book thinking that the most important points had
Hertzog, Esther: Patrons of Women. Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal
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Literacy inequalities and social justice
Children as Decision Makers in Education: Sharing Experiences Across Cultures
Since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, there has been an increasing recognition globally that children need to have more say in their education. Children as Decision Makers in Education looks at how children can actively participate in decision-making. It builds upon previous research into student voice and decision-making, citizenship education in the school curriculum and work with children as researchers. This insightful collectio…
Language and minority rights: Ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language
Challenging deficit discourses in international education and development
Research and policy in international education has often been framed in terms of a deficit discourse. For instance, policy debates on women’s literacy and education have begun by positioning women
An international journal’s attempts to address inequalities in academic publishing: Developing a writing for publication programme
Scholars around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in English, in Anglophone centre journals. At the same time, research on professional academic writing indicates that scholars from outside Anglophone centre contexts face considerable obstacles in getting their academic work published in such journals, relating to material and linguistic resources. This paper draws on current research to offer a brief outline of inequalities aris…
Language, literacy and education: A reader
Adult education and indigenous people: Addressing gender in policy and practice
Women and literacy: A Nepal perspective
Research ethics in comparative and international education: Reflections from anthropology and health
Within methodological debate on comparative and international education (CIE), issues around research ethics have rarely been directly interrogated. By bringing together insights from discussions in the fields of anthropology and health research, this paper aims to develop a ‘situated’ approach for exploring educational research ethics across cultures and institutions. The paper begins with a critique of the legalistic starting point on education…
Compare: Exploring a 40‐year journey through comparative education and international development
Women, literacy and health: Comparing health and education sectoral approaches in Nepal
Functional adult literacy interventions have been regarded for many decades by policy makers as an effective way of imparting health knowledge. Supported by research on the statistical relationships between women’s literacy rates and health indicators, this dominant policy discourse is based on assumptions that non-literate women lack understanding and confidence, and that formal programmes and institutions constitute the main sites of learning. …
Researching ethically across cultures: Issues of knowledge, power and voice
Development as Discourse: What relevance to education
Regarding 'development' as a constructed and contested concept can enable us working in international education to re-examine our assumptions and approaches as 'developers'. Given its theoretical origins in post-modern, post-colonial and feminist thought, the concept of development as discourse implies more than simply 'development speak' and can provide a way into analysing relationships around knowledge and power. Stressing that there are many …
Changing discourses: Literacy and development in Nepal
Education for women: Whose values count
This article looks at how far educational approaches to gender equity can be packaged and exported to developing countries. I analyze current discourses on women's education at international, national and local levels. Drawing on detailed ethnographic data from Nepal, I argue that issues around gender and education need to be addressed as ideological in nature, rather than a technical matter of tackling ‘drop out’ from women's literacy classes or…
Inclusive education: Thinking beyond systems
Systems thinking has dominated debates and policy discourses on inclusive education, resulting in an almost exclusive focus on children and formal schooling. Based on the BAICE Presidential Lecture 2019, this paper considers the limitations of systems theory in framing discussion and research on inclusive education, introducing instead alternative theoretical starting points to analyse vignettes of from Ethiopia, Nepal, the UK and the Philippines…
Student mobilities, migration and the internationalisation of higher education
by Rachel Brooks and Johanna Waters, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 195 pp., £58.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-230-57844-9This book offers so much more than the title suggests! I had expected a
Literacy inequalities and social justice
Women as Learners: The Significance of Gender in Adult Learning
Education for rural development: Forty years on
Education has long been considered a force for social transformation, influencing teaching-learning approaches and policy, including the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This article sets out to problematise the relationship between education and social change, proposing a theoretical framework around social transformation as an alternative to the usual development lens. A historical analysis of an education for rural development project impl…
Indigenous women and adult learning: Towards a paradigm change
In contemporary educational research, practice and policy, ‘indigenous women’ have emerged as an important focus in the global education arena. This Special Issue investigates what is significant a
Women and literacy: Local and global inquiries for a new century
edited by Beth Daniell and Peter Mortensen, New York and London, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/ National Council of Teachers of English/Taylor and Francis, 2007, 335 pp., £22.99 (paperback), ISBN 0‐8
Whose Voice? Participatory research and policy change
Literacy: A lever for citizenship
Within citizenship education, literacy is often promoted in a narrow functional sense of skills for civic engagement or is used synonymously with “knowledge” to refer to an awareness-raising process around rights. Through an analysis of evolving models of citizenship, this article moves beyond literacy for citizenship to consider the ways in which literacy learning can emerge through active citizenship. Drawing on published ethnographic studies o…
Beyond authorship and accountability? The ethics of doctoral research dissemination in a changing world
Discussion of ethics in doctoral training courses usually focuses on the initial stages of planning and conducting field research. Shifting attention onto the responsibility of the researcher to share their findings throughout the research process, we set out to consider how doctoral students can conceptualise and engage ethically with research dissemination in the broader context of the globalised knowledge economy. A comparative analysis of the…
Women's right to learning and literacy: Women learning literacy and empowerment
Reflecting some of the perspectives of Robinson-Pant and Nabi, that women’s learning should be developmental and part of more holistic policies, Chopra focuses on the expressed learning interests of traditional midwives. She explores how a rights-based and social transformation approach to literacy learning could result in an impact on female feticide and infanticide
Developing cultural capability in international higher education: A narrative inquiry
by Sheila Trahar, London, Routledge, 2011, 170 pp., $38.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-57239-2, $130 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-57238-5 I ended this book thinking that the most important points had
Women and literacy: A Nepal perspective
Women as Learners: The Significance of Gender in Adult Learning
Whose Voice? Participatory research and policy change
Development as Discourse: What relevance to education
Regarding 'development' as a constructed and contested concept can enable us working in international education to re-examine our assumptions and approaches as 'developers'. Given its theoretical origins in post-modern, post-colonial and feminist thought, the concept of development as discourse implies more than simply 'development speak' and can provide a way into analysing relationships around knowledge and power. Stressing that there are many …
Development with a Human Face: Experiences in social achievement and economic growth
Gender, Literacy and Life Chances in Sub-Saharan Africa
Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters and Social Change in Nepal
The give and take of writing: Scribes, literacy and everyday life
Education for women: Whose values count
This article looks at how far educational approaches to gender equity can be packaged and exported to developing countries. I analyze current discourses on women's education at international, national and local levels. Drawing on detailed ethnographic data from Nepal, I argue that issues around gender and education need to be addressed as ideological in nature, rather than a technical matter of tackling ‘drop out’ from women's literacy classes or…
Community participation and empowerment in primary education
Language and minority rights: Ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language
Language, literacy and education: A reader
Practising gender analysis in education
Learning for life in the 21st century
Gender equality in adult education
Adult education and indigenous people: Addressing gender in policy and practice
Windows and mirrors in comparative education
Shaping environments for the future through education and work‐based learning
‘Why Literacy Matters’: 1 Exploring A Policy Perspective on Literacies, Identities and Social Change
This article looks at the methodological implications of bringing what has been termed an ‘ethnographic perspective’ on literacies, identity and social change, into the international policy discourse on education and development. Through an analysis of the UNESCO Global Monitoring Report 2006, Literacy for Life, I explore how and whether ethnographic insights can be translated into a policy context dominated by an economistic paradigm of developm…
Literacies, Identities and Social Change: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy and Development
The concept of literacy has an important role in theories of social and human development. The development studies literature has consistently described illiteracy as a pervasive characteristic of
Women and literacy: Local and global inquiries for a new century
edited by Beth Daniell and Peter Mortensen, New York and London, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/ National Council of Teachers of English/Taylor and Francis, 2007, 335 pp., £22.99 (paperback), ISBN 0‐8
Studying transitions in comparative and international education
Changing discourses: Literacy and development in Nepal
Public–private strategies, regulatory regimes and education systems
We begin this issue with a tribute from Compare to Jacqueline (Jackie) Kirk who was among the three International Rescue Committee (IRC) victims of an ambush in Logar Province, Afghanistan in Augus
Children as Decision Makers in Education: Sharing Experiences Across Cultures
Since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, there has been an increasing recognition globally that children need to have more say in their education. Children as Decision Makers in Education looks at how children can actively participate in decision-making. It builds upon previous research into student voice and decision-making, citizenship education in the school curriculum and work with children as researchers. This insightful collectio…
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