Changing Roles for the Global South in International Collaborative Learning
Changing Roles for the Global South in International Collaborative Learning
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全球南方在国际协作学习中角色的转变
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2011
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Jian Wang
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S. Cozzens;Ravtosh Bal;Elena M. Berger;Dhanaraj Thakur;Jian Wang
国际合作是学习、创新和能力建设体系的重要贡献者。几十年来，研究领域的国际合作一直在迅速增长。这些新出现的模式对发展中国家的影响是一个有争议的问题。新的机会可能是通过更平等的研究关系和超越历史殖民关系的研究关系，为全球南方的研究人员提供互惠学习的机会。这篇论文在生物燃料和中子科学这两个与能源相关的特定领域寻找这种新模式的迹象。基于文献的数据表明，几个发展中国家在生物燃料方面发挥着强大的作用，这些国家的国际合作增长速度快于中子散射。然而，采访数据表明，可能涉及几种类型的合作：面向职业、面向项目和由赞助商发起。第一个或最后一个的增长将表明持续的不对称关系，而后者的增长将表明日益平等。国际合作的指标可能倾向于基于项目的合作，这种合作似乎在中子散射等仪器密集型领域占主导地位。但有趣的动态可能发生在生物燃料等领域，在这些领域，全球学习关系实际上可能正在发生变化。
International collaboration is an important contributor to learning, innovation, and competence-building systems. International collaboration in research has been growing rapidly for several decades. The implications of these emerging patterns for developing countries are a matter for debate. New opportunities could be opening up for reciprocal learning involving researchers in the global South, through more equal research relationships and ones that go beyond historical colonial ties. This paper looks for signs of that new pattern in two specific energy-related fields, biofuels and neutron science. Literature-based data indicate that several developing countries are strong players in biofuels and that international collaboration is growing faster there than in neutron scattering. However, interview data suggest that several kinds of collaboration could be involved: career-oriented, project-oriented, and sponsor-initiated. Growth in the first or last would indicate continuing asymmetric relationships, while growth in the latter would indicate growing equality. Indicators of international collaboration are probably skewed towards project-based collaboration, which appears to be dominant in instrument-intensive fields like neutron scattering. But the interesting dynamics are probably happening in fields like biofuels, where global learning relationships could in fact be shifting.