Examining mutual resilience in South–South cooperation

The China-Tanzania educational partnership

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21484994
AutoresWilliam A L Anangisye (0000-0002-0278-3315, University of Dar es Salaam), Ntimi Mtawa (0000-0001-8099-8998, University of Dar es Salaam), Mo Xu (0009-0006-3798-3233, Beijing Foreign Studies University, autor correspondente)
Ano2026
Páginas1-22
Data de publicação2026-06-11
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAsia Pacific Journal of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0218-8791 • E-ISSN: 1742-6855
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02188791.2026.2683453
OpenAlexW7164401176
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas30

This study examines how the China–Tanzania educational partnership builds mutual resilience, the capacity to sustain equitable collaboration amid disruptions. Through qualitative analysis of 22 interviews with stakeholders, this study develops a three-dimensional framework (absorptive, adaptive, transformative) grounded in Tanzania’s Ujamaa philosophy. Findings reveal that mutual resilience is constructed differentially across scales: at interpersonal and programmatic levels, historical trust and cultural respect enable bidirectional learning and institutional innovation; at the systemic level, however, resource asymmetries and mobility imbalances constrain fuller equity realization, particularly in transformative capacity. Theoretically, this study advances South–South cooperation scholarship by introducing mutual resilience as a culturally grounded analytical framework for assessing partnership equity across multiple dimensions. Practically, findings underscore the need for explicit equity mechanisms, collaborative funding models and epistemological co-creation to transform operational innovations into structural equity

General partnership · Grounded theory · Interpersonal communication · Psychological resilience · Qualitative research · Scholarship · Transformative learning · Higher Education Governance and Development · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · International Development and Aid