Synopses & Reviews
Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts extends current understandings of what capacities and capacity-building are and of the dimensions that maximise their prospects of success in current educational policy-making and provision. It does this by exploring how capacity-building is implemented among nine groups of research participants, including Australian, Dutch and English circus families, migrants and refugees in an Australian regional town, and a university education research team. These data sets are analysed to address eight 'hot topics' and 'wicked problems' in contemporary education: consciousness; creativity; dis/empowerment and agency; diversity and identity; forms of capital and currencies; knowledge sharing; regionality and rurality; and resilience.
Synopsis
Education is generally supposed to help learners to develop new capacities and to be able to apply them in work and life - yet we still know very little about how to build useful capacities. This book investigates nine research projects, exploring why particular capacities are successful in some situations but not in others.
About the Author
Patrick Alan Danaher is Professor in Educational Research at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Andy Davies is Research Supervisor for the Simulation Department at the Sidra Medical and Research Centre in Doha, Qatar.
Linda De George-Walker is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Central Queensland University, Australia.
Janice K. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Arts Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Karl J. Matthews is a Researcher at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Warren Midgley is Head of the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Catherine H. Arden is Lecturer in Adult and Vocational Education and Training/Senior Schooling at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Margaret Baguley is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Table of Contents
1. Conceptualising and Contextualising Contemporary Capacity-Building2. Consciousness and Capacity-Building3. Creative Capacity-Building4. Disrupting Disempowerment: Agency in Education5. Diversity and Identity6. Forms of Capital and Currencies7. Knowledge Sharing Practices and Capacity-Building8. Regionality, Rurality and Capacity-Building9. Resilience and Capacity-Building10. Capacity-Building for New and Transformative Educational Futures