Engaging teachers as agents of peace and social cohesion:
Understanding impact
Yusuf Sayed
Presented at CIES Taking Stock and Looking Forward Annual
Conference 2016,
Vancouver, Canada, 7-10 March
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Research Impact Pathways
(the linear model)
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Research Impact Pathways
(the process embedded model)
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Research Overview
The main research question that guides this study is:
To what extent do education peacebuilding interventions
in countries promote teacher agency and capacity to
build peace and reduce inequalities?
In answering this question we pay particular attention to
how they seek to mitigate gender, ethnic, religious and
socio-economic inequities to, in and through education.
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Impact as publication: conceptual
Popular
 Press release
 National press
 University
website
 External
website
 Social media
Academic
Open data
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 Reports
 Authored books
 Chapters in books
 Journal article
 Conference contribution
 Working paper
 Policy briefs
Impact as engagement: networks
and connectivity
Networking
Policy engagement
Four key modes:
Several main targets:
 Workshops with
stakeholders
 Government but also parts of
government
 Critical Reference Group
 Government to government
 Targeted Policy Workshops
 Communities of researchers
 Roundtables
 CSOs
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Research capacity as impact
 Institutional and individual
 PG students in the project
 Junior staff in the project
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Impact mediators
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Think-tanks
NGOs
Professional Associations
Consultants
Education officials
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Limits
 Ideas and discourse (the policydilemma?)
 Non-correspondence between research and policy
and practice
 Capacity development limited by grant time limits
 North-South dynamics and dialectic
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Impact as contingent and opportune
 Context embeddedness
 The conjunction of politics and biography
 The conjunction of time and space
 The external shock – xenophobia in South Africa as
reason for why the project took on importance
 The impact of chance
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