Towards an African feminist framework for students' welfare in Nigerian Higher Education

尼日利亚高等教育中为学生福利建立非洲女权主义框架

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    ES/W005727/1
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 13.36万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    英国
  • 项目类别:
    Fellowship
  • 财政年份:
    2021
  • 资助国家:
    英国
  • 起止时间:
    2021 至 无数据
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

This proposed project builds on my PhD research study titled 'In Our Own Voices: A Critical Participatory Study of the Wellbeing of Female Undergraduate Students in Nigeria' (Nwako, 2020). Women students are disadvantaged and marginalised in African universities as they face a myriad of problems that threaten their physical health, emotional safety and academic progress. However, the wellbeing of women students in Nigerian educational institutions has received little research attention, the issues are neither given much policy consideration nor opportunities for improvement in practice. Thus, the study aimed to critically explore the ways in which the wellbeing and capabilities of female undergraduate students are conceptualised and understood in Nigeria, a country in West Africa, through a postcolonial feminist lens. The privileging of the voice and agency of women participants, as well as an interrogation of the coloniality of university structures, was intrinsic to the research design used within the research context. The study engaged with and advanced African feminist sociological literature and employed a critical participatory methodology involving innovative methods of data collection and analysis (see Summary of completed thesis in the Case for Support). The PhD research found that wellbeing is an inadequate concept tied to western policy discourses in education that does not reflect the realities of the Nigerian higher education context. The research introduced and developed a concept of welfare which not only was more commonly used and understood by African women in universities, but better reflected their negotiations of multiple dimensions of contextual experiences. This re-conceptualisation signified the importance of understanding and representing the experiences and motivations of women with respect to the material conditions of higher education. Thus, a new conceptual map, leading to a framework for rethinking welfare through an African feminist lens, was established through the research.Significantly, my research equal importance on supporting women students develop their understandings and responses to welfare at an individual level as well as in relation with other women. This interaction between the individual and the collective underpins the participatory nature of my research and lends itself to the idea of collaboration and co-production of resources through the potential fellowship project.The centring of women's voices and experiences within the study challenged a number of policy assumptions and priorities within Nigerian higher education. The project contributes important insights into ongoing policy debates on how to mitigate gender-based violence in higher education institutions. These questions will be taken up specifically through the engagement work designed for the postdoctoral fellowship.This ESRC postdoctoral fellowship project will consolidate my career as an education researcher and critical academic commentator on African feminist scholarship. I will be able to work closely with Professor Arathi Sriprakash, a highly respected mentor who is experienced in gender and epistemic justice, as well as postcolonial and decolonial perspectives in comparative and international education.In addition, I will implement a multi-targeted approach to communicate the above-mentioned findings, implications and recommendations from my PhD study. This approach will have academic and individual impact through:- International peer-reviewed journal publications and grant development.- Planned webinars to share policy-based research findings with education stakeholders and to support the development of institutional policies and procedures.- Communication of research to a lay target audience through accessible, engaging and creative outputs.- Facilitation of knowledge exchange between African female students to establish empowering national and international networks.
这个拟议的项目建立在我的博士研究题为“在我们自己的声音:在尼日利亚的女本科生的福祉的批判性研究”(Nwako,2020年)。女学生在非洲大学中处于不利地位和边缘化,因为她们面临着威胁其身体健康,情感安全和学术进步的无数问题。然而,尼日利亚教育机构中女学生的福利很少受到研究关注,这些问题既没有得到太多的政策考虑,也没有在实践中得到改善的机会。因此,这项研究旨在批判性地探讨如何在尼日利亚,一个西非国家,通过后殖民女权主义透镜的幸福和能力的女本科生的概念化和理解。对妇女参与者的声音和机构的重视,以及对大学结构的殖民性的质疑,是研究背景下使用的研究设计所固有的。该研究采用了非洲女权主义社会学文献,并推动其发展,采用了一种关键的参与性方法,其中包括创新的数据收集和分析方法(见“支持案例”中已完成的论文摘要)。博士研究发现,福祉是一个与西方教育政策话语相关的不充分概念,它并不反映尼日利亚高等教育背景的现实。这项研究提出并发展了一个福利概念,这一概念不仅更普遍地被大学里的非洲妇女使用和理解,而且更好地反映了她们对背景经验的多个层面的谈判。这种重新概念化意味着理解和代表女性在高等教育物质条件方面的经验和动机的重要性。因此,通过研究建立了一个新的概念图,导致通过非洲女权主义透镜重新思考福利的框架。重要的是,我的研究同样重要,支持女学生在个人层面以及与其他妇女的关系中发展对福利的理解和反应。个人和集体之间的这种互动巩固了我的研究的参与性,并有助于通过潜在的奖学金项目合作和共同制作资源的想法。在研究中集中妇女的声音和经验,挑战了尼日利亚高等教育中的一些政策假设和优先事项。该项目为当前关于如何减少高等教育机构中基于性别的暴力的政策辩论提供了重要见解。这些问题将通过专门为博士后奖学金设计的参与工作来解决。ESRC博士后奖学金项目将巩固我作为非洲女权主义奖学金教育研究员和批判性学术评论员的职业生涯。我将能够与Arathi Sriprakash教授密切合作,Arathi Sriprakash教授是一位备受尊敬的导师,他在性别和认识正义以及比较和国际教育中的后殖民和非殖民视角方面经验丰富。此外,我将实施多目标方法来传达上述研究结果,影响和建议。这种方法将通过以下方式产生学术和个人影响:-国际同行评审期刊出版物和赠款开发。计划举办网络研讨会,与教育利益相关者分享基于政策的研究成果,并支持制定机构政策和程序。通过可访问的研究沟通,参与和创造性的产出。促进非洲女学生之间的知识交流,以建立增强能力的国家和国际网络。

项目成果

期刊论文数量(1)
专著数量(0)
科研奖励数量(0)
会议论文数量(0)
专利数量(0)
Leading Change in Gender and Diversity in Higher Education from Margins to Mainstream
引领高等教育中性别和多元化的变革,从边缘走向主流
  • DOI:
    10.4324/9781003286943-8
  • 发表时间:
    2022
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    0
  • 作者:
    Morris C
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    Morris C
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Zibah Nwako其他文献

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Commercialisation of African Youth Enterprise Programme
非洲青年企业计划商业化
  • 批准号:
    ES/Y010752/1
  • 财政年份:
    2024
  • 资助金额:
    $ 13.36万
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grant

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