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Researcher experiences of a long-term higher education partnership with rural schools
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/62889 Researcher experiences of a long-term higher education partnership with rural schools Ebersohn, L. (Liesel) ALICIANICOLEGUMMY2@GMAIL.COM Adams, Alicia Nicole Inequality Higher education community engagement Research capacity development Global citizenship UCTD Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-17 Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2017. The purpose of the study was to explore researcher experiences of community engagement as part of a long-term higher education community engagement (HECE) partnership with rural schools. The theoretical framework that guided the study was grounded in the construct global citizenship. The instrumental case design followed the qualitative approach from a constructivist epistemology. Semi-structured questionnaires were used for data collection with purposively sampled researchers (n=16), comprising male (n=3) and female (n=13) researchers, including local (n=14) and international (n=2) researchers, who completed their research in the conveniently sampled HECE project. Following thematic analysis, two main themes emerged, namely: researcher perspectives on capacity development in higher education community engagement, and researcher perspectives on higher education community engagement as a core function of higher education institutions. Findings indicated, from researchers’ perspectives, that HECE benefits from collaborative partnerships, and that researchers have opportunities for personal and professional development. Researchers felt that such capacity development was necessary to ensure project sustainability. According to researchers, HECE project challenges or barriers need to be addressed to ensure project sustainability. Higher education requires a community engagement policy that guides the establishment of platforms for knowledge generation, human capacity development and collaborative partnerships in order that the core functions of higher education institutions could be performed. es2026 Educational Psychology MEd Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals 2017-10-24T09:14:06Z 2017-10-24T09:14:06Z 2017-09-07 2017 Dissertation Adams, AN 2017, Researcher experiences of a long-term higher education partnership with rural schools, MEd Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62889> S2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62889 en © 2017 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Inequality Higher education community engagement Research capacity development Global citizenship UCTD Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-17 Researcher experiences of a long-term higher education partnership with rural schools |
| title | Researcher experiences of a long-term higher education partnership with rural schools |
| title_full | Researcher experiences of a long-term higher education partnership with rural schools |
| title_fullStr | Researcher experiences of a long-term higher education partnership with rural schools |
| title_full_unstemmed | Researcher experiences of a long-term higher education partnership with rural schools |
| title_short | Researcher experiences of a long-term higher education partnership with rural schools |
| title_sort | researcher experiences of a long term higher education partnership with rural schools |
| topic | Inequality Higher education community engagement Research capacity development Global citizenship UCTD Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-17 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62889 |