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The right to research
Abstract
This paper argues that research be recognised as a right of a special kind – that it be regarded as a more universal and elementary ability. It suggests that research is a specialised name for a generalised capacity to make disciplined inquires into those things we need to know, but do not know yet. I maintain that knowledge is both more valuable and more ephemeral due to globalisation, and that it is vital for the exercise of informed citizenship. I acknowledge the 30% of the total world population in poorer countries who may get past elementary education to the bottom rung of secondary and post‐secondary education, and state that one of the rights that this group ought to claim is the right to research – to gain strategic knowledge – as this is essential to their claims for democratic citizenship. I then explore the democratisation of the right to research, and the nexus between research and action, using the Mumbai‐based Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research (PUKAR) as an example.
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Sandwick, T., Fine, M., Greene, A. C., Stoudt, B. G., Torre, M. E., & Patel, L. (2018) · Urban Education · doi:10.1177/0042085918763513 · Cited by 71
Appadurai, A. (2012) · Environment and Urbanization · doi:10.1177/0956247812447511 · Cited by 37
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- Authors
- Appadurai, A.
- Venue
- Globalisation, Societies and Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2006-07
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 167-177
- ISSN
- 1476-7724 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-7732
- OpenAlex
- W2016384907
- Cited by
- 368
- References
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- FWCI
- 11.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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