Research in Alternative Global Education (RAGE)

Research has been traditionally confined to institutional spaces such as large think-tanks and universities, with many of them located in Western countries. Within alternative education, a looming gap in the creation of knowledge and evidence persists in developing countries. RAGE aims to democratise the global knowledge landscape by contributing to empirically-driven research from our programmes located across South Asia (India and Bangladesh) and Africa (Zimbabwe, Rwanda, and Uganda). A greater problem we identified was the lack of representation of learners both within the process and outcome of research studies. By involving learners in the co-production and dissemination of knowledge through diverse research methods, RAGE aims to create a feedback loop, in turn driving research that is of greater relevance to learners’ lives. In this way, the platform aims to shift the balance from learners as subjects to creators of knowledge that is ultimately helpful to their own learning trajectories.