| Title | Chapter 9: Unequal scholarly playing fields |
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| Contributor | Charl C Wolhuter(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2024.BK434.09 |
| Landing page | https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/434 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Copyright © Charl C Wolhuter 2024. Licensee: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. The moral right of the author has been asserted. |
| Publisher | AOSIS |
| Published on | 2024-04-30 |
| Long abstract | This chapter unpacks the final strand of the construct of criticism against Northern hegemony in the field. This strand is the criticism pertaining to the unequal playing field in which comparative and international education scholars in the Global South find themselves compared to their counterparts in the Global North. Aspects of this inequality are: authors and authorship patterns in the corpus of literature in the field; geographic research foci in the field; thematic research foci in the field; geographic levels foci of publications; the selections of units for comparison; the entire construction of the field by the research community; theories and theoretical frameworks extant in the field; metrics and measuring instruments used in the field; regimens of ethics accepted in the field; research infrastructure at the disposal of scholars; contextual impediments; Northern dominance of funding sources and patterns; publication fora for dissemination of research output. |
| Print length | 11 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Charl C Wolhuter studied at the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, the University of South Africa and Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) in comparative education at Stellenbosch University. He was a junior lecturer in history of education and comparative education at the University of Pretoria and a senior lecturer in history of education and comparative education at the University of Zululand. Currently, he is a comparative and international education professor at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University, South Africa. He has held visiting professorships at, among others, Brock University, Canada; Driestar Pedagogical University, the Netherlands; the University of Crete, Greece; Canterbury Christ University, United Kingdom; the University of Joensuu, Finland; the University of Queensland, Australia; the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy; Mataj Bel University, Slovakia; Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Ukraine; University of Zhengzhou, China; the University of Namibia, Namibia; the University of the Western Cape, SouthAfrica; the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, Germany; the University of Latvia, Latvia; the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; the University of Tarapaca, Chile; and San Martín University, Argentina. He is the author of various books and articles on the history of education and comparative education. He is also the assistant editor of the journal Comparative Education Review.