Leveraging Openness for Refugees’ Higher Education: A Freiran Perspective to Foster Open Cooperation
Research in the field of Higher Education in Emergencies (HEiE) starts to question the imposed Global North-centred perspective which arrives with ready-made solutions, considering refugees as objects of intervention rather than subjects of transformation. Leveraging the broader topics of Open Sc...
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Research in the field of Higher Education in Emergencies (HEiE) starts to question the imposed Global North-centred perspective which arrives with ready-made solutions, considering refugees as objects of intervention rather than subjects of transformation.
Leveraging the broader topics of Open Science and Open Education, this paper pioneers a new approach to scientific cooperation, fostering values of Openness in refugee higher education. It specifically addresses HEiE in Niger, Africa, in a training of trainers’ programme. It is designed in a participatory manner involving academics from the Global South and Global North, refugees who are themselves educators, and NGOs. Taking the form of a Certificate of Open Studies (COS), the training empowers refugees as enabled change agents, capable of making sense of diverse knowledge systems to transform their reality.
Preliminary understanding of Open Cooperation is shared through a conceptual framework, Empowering refugees through liberation-oriented education. It addresses sustainability at the ontological and epistemic levels and relies on four main dimensions: Epistemologies of the South, Openness, Common good and Education as empowerment.
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| spelling | doaj-art-c97a53b732724282b256594e2baf4f392024-12-26T04:39:11ZengInternational Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)Open Praxis1369-99972304-070X2023-05-0115110.55982/openpraxis.15.1.529Leveraging Openness for Refugees’ Higher Education: A Freiran Perspective to Foster Open CooperationBarbara Class0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5461-2307Thierry Agagliate1https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5352-8868Abdeljalil Akkari2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4396-2635Naoufel Cheikhrouhou3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2497-2528Moussa Sagayar4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5216-8249TECFA, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of GenevaInZone, University of GenevaERDIE, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of GenevaGeneva School of Business Administration, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, HES-SOENS, University Abdou Moumouni Research in the field of Higher Education in Emergencies (HEiE) starts to question the imposed Global North-centred perspective which arrives with ready-made solutions, considering refugees as objects of intervention rather than subjects of transformation. Leveraging the broader topics of Open Science and Open Education, this paper pioneers a new approach to scientific cooperation, fostering values of Openness in refugee higher education. It specifically addresses HEiE in Niger, Africa, in a training of trainers’ programme. It is designed in a participatory manner involving academics from the Global South and Global North, refugees who are themselves educators, and NGOs. Taking the form of a Certificate of Open Studies (COS), the training empowers refugees as enabled change agents, capable of making sense of diverse knowledge systems to transform their reality. Preliminary understanding of Open Cooperation is shared through a conceptual framework, Empowering refugees through liberation-oriented education. It addresses sustainability at the ontological and epistemic levels and relies on four main dimensions: Epistemologies of the South, Openness, Common good and Education as empowerment. https://account.openpraxis.org/index.php/up-j-op/wp-admin/ALFA_DATA/alfacgiapi/index.php/up-j-op/article/view/529Refugee educationCertificate of Open StudiesOpen EducationOpen ScienceOpen cooperationHigher Education in Emergencies |
| spellingShingle | Barbara Class Thierry Agagliate Abdeljalil Akkari Naoufel Cheikhrouhou Moussa Sagayar Leveraging Openness for Refugees’ Higher Education: A Freiran Perspective to Foster Open Cooperation Open Praxis Refugee education Certificate of Open Studies Open Education Open Science Open cooperation Higher Education in Emergencies |
| title | Leveraging Openness for Refugees’ Higher Education: A Freiran Perspective to Foster Open Cooperation |
| title_full | Leveraging Openness for Refugees’ Higher Education: A Freiran Perspective to Foster Open Cooperation |
| title_fullStr | Leveraging Openness for Refugees’ Higher Education: A Freiran Perspective to Foster Open Cooperation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leveraging Openness for Refugees’ Higher Education: A Freiran Perspective to Foster Open Cooperation |
| title_short | Leveraging Openness for Refugees’ Higher Education: A Freiran Perspective to Foster Open Cooperation |
| title_sort | leveraging openness for refugees rsquo higher education a freiran perspective to foster open cooperation |
| topic | Refugee education Certificate of Open Studies Open Education Open Science Open cooperation Higher Education in Emergencies |
| url | https://account.openpraxis.org/index.php/up-j-op/wp-admin/ALFA_DATA/alfacgiapi/index.php/up-j-op/article/view/529 |
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