Research in Alternative Global Education (RAGE) is the research arm of Project DEFY dedicated to creating knowledge about alternative education and meaningfully involving learners and communities in the production of knowledge.
RAGE serves as a platform to identify gaps in the global knowledge landscape focusing on alternative education and bridge these through empirical evidence from ‘Nooks’. Set up in marginalised communities with limited access to resources, Nooks are alternative community learning spaces that follow principles of self-designed-learning. Nooks are currently located in 32 locations across India, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Uganda.
RAGE provides a collaborative learning space for like-minded researchers, practitioners, and learners who wish to challenge the hegemony of dominant approaches within educational research.
From Barriers to Bridges Examining Rwanda Nook Hub’s Role in Transforming Learning and Livelihoods in Gahanga, Rwanda
This paper examines the role of the Rwanda Nook Hub in Gahanga in transforming learning and livelihood opportunities for youth through a self-designed, community-led approach. The study highlights how learners gain technical and soft skills, generate income often for the first time and initiate projects that address real community needs. It also explores the ripple effects on households and offers recommendations to deepen the Hub’s impact.
Co-creating Pathways to Transform Communities in Rural Meghalaya, India: A study on the Chief Minister’s Youth Centre (CMYC) programme
Feedback on the RAGE Paper
This paper offers great insight into participants’, learners’ and community members’ experience of Chief Minister’s Youth Centres (CMYC) in North-east India. The paper justifies and highlights the value of the use of participatory action research (PAR) in order to research with CMYC learners to better understand the value of the CMYC and the pathways forward. it shows the strong alignment between the participatory, inclusive research approach and the ethos of the CMYCs as safe spaces for experimentation, learning, peer support and sharing. I look forward to learning more about how this work is taken forward.
Dr Rhona Brown, Research Associate, University of Glasgow (previously of Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures Network)
Click Here to Read – RAGE – Working Paper Series 2nd Paper-July 2024
Challenging Narrow Conceptualisations of ‘Education’ through the Nook Model in Uganda, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, India and Bangladesh
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