CIEGUN

Comparative and International Education Group University of Newcastle

Programme Leader:
Dr Tom Griffiths

Chief Investigators:
Dr Zsuzsa Millei, Dr Stephanie Bengtsson, Dr Nisha Thapliyal, A/Prof Linda Newman

Challenging dominant policy paradigms: Enacting social justice

Overview

CIEGUN’s research programme brings together a critical mass of established comparative researchers exploring global educational policies and alternatives for contemporary times. Our programmatic focus is developed through inter-related research spokes, across geographical regions, educational sectors, and time periods, with a consistent focus on policy critique, the exploration of socially just alternatives, and interventions that systematically incorporate subaltern voices. We build on our established international collaborations, to enhance the dissemination, recognition and impact of the research as an integral part of the proposed intervention in global policy debates. Our programme of research rests on an acknowledgement of the heightened levels of global uncertainty and instability in which policy challenges emerge, and the heightened potential for such interventions in this context to influence the shape of the future world-system.