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Encountering Poverty

Encountering Poverty

The 2016 book “Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World” brings together some of the insights draw from teaching in a critical undergraduate program. Roy, Negron-Gonzales, Opoku-Agyemang and Talwalker offer something between an edited volume and an undergraduate textbook, while also offering critical reflexivity of their own roles and positionality. The target audience […]

Tags: #Complexity #Education #International development #Poverty #Reflexivity

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6 Post-docs at Royal Roads (Canada)

Topics: Working with Dr. Brian Belcher, Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Sustainability Research Effectiveness, the post-doc will focus on research to assess the effectiveness and the impact of transdisciplinary research (TDR) for improved livelihoods, community resilience, and environmental sustainability. Working with Dr. Ann Dale, Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability, the post-doc will […]

Tags: #Climate change #Education #Leadership #Public Health #Sustainability

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PhD & Post-doc: Education in Remote Settings

Post-docs and PhD studentship: Education Systems, Aspiration and Learning in Remote Rural Settings (Lesotho, India, Laos) Brunel University London is seeking to appoint two post-doctoral research fellows and one PhD student to work on the above project. (A further Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship will be advertised shortly at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.) The […]

Tags: #Education #Ethnographic #Learning #Remote #Rural

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