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<p>In this article we offer a discussion around our academic-practitioner involvements with one another and with a targeted community, in relation to a particular project. In the title of the article, we have hyphenated the term <italic>academic-practitioner</italic> to render fuzzy the distinction between “academic” roles (associated with institutions of higher learning and with professional research) and the roles of “practitioners” operating and learning in the field in engagement with communities. In the article we detail our collaborations with one another and with a farming community in all undertaking (co)inquiries around options for social and ecological development. We explain how this fits the epistemological views as offered by Indigenous authors propounding an Indigenous research paradigm (with transformative intent) to generate visions of realities in-the-making, towards enhanced wellbeing in communities and towards a sustainable future. We provide a detailed example in the course of our deliberations.</p>
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In this article we offer a discussion around our academic-practitioner involvements with one another and with a targeted community, in relation to a particular project. In the title of the article, we have hyphenated the term academic-practitioner to render fuzzy the distinction between “academic” roles (associated with institutions of higher learning and with professional research) and the roles of “practitioners” operating and learning in the field in engagement with communities. In the article we detail our collaborations with one another and with a farming community in all undertaking (co)inquiries around options for social and ecological development. We explain how this fits the epistemological views as offered by Indigenous authors propounding an Indigenous research paradigm (with transformative intent) to generate visions of realities in-the-making, towards enhanced wellbeing in communities and towards a sustainable future. We provide a detailed example in the course of our deliberations.

Academic-practitioner collaboration with communities towards social and ecological transformation

Department of Adult Education and Youth Development

International Journal for Transformative Research

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In this article we offer a discussion around our academic-practitioner involvements with one another and with a targeted community, in relation to a particular...

Academic-practitioner collaboration with communities towards social and ecological transformation

Published Online: Dec 02, 2019

Page range: 1 - 9

Received: Mar 21, 2019

Accepted: Jul 01, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijtr-2019-0002

Keywords
Relational knowing, Transformative learning, Community wellbeing, Food security, Sustainable future

© 2018 Akwasi Arko-Achemfuor et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Academic-practitioner collaboration with communities towards social and ecological transformation

Published Online: Dec 02, 2019

Page range: 1 - 9

Received: Mar 21, 2019

Accepted: Jul 01, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijtr-2019-0002

KeywordsRelational knowing, Transformative learning, Community wellbeing, Food security, Sustainable future

© 2018 Akwasi Arko-Achemfuor et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Relational knowing, Transformative learning, Community wellbeing, Food security, Sustainable future