Farrell, Alison and Kane, S. and Salchak, S.P. and Dube, C.M. (2015) Empowered empathetic encounters: Building international collaborations through researching writing in the context of South African higher education and beyond. South African Journal of Higher Education, 29 (4). pp. 96-113. ISSN 1011-3487

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In this article, the authors propose the idea of ‘empowered empathetic encounters’ as a key success factor in the building of effective international inter-institutional collaboration. By empowered empathetic encounters the authors mean those supported pivotal occasions where researchers meet with colleagues with whom they wish to collaborate in face-to-face settings in order to try to understand, in a meaningful way, each other’s concerns and what it means to live and work in each other’s contexts. In their work, the authors combine their personal and collective experiences with an analysis of these in the context of the existing literature. In this way, they wish to engage in a process of ‘thinking the cultural through the self’ (Probyn 1993) and ‘thinking theory through’ researchers’ own experiences (Mann 2008, 10 – emphasis in original). They further suggest that engaged encounters of this nature can provide the bedrock for successful, longterm collaboration.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	institutional collaboration; academic writing; teaching and learning; North/South partnership;
Academic Unit:	Centre for Teaching and Learning
Item ID:	6969
Depositing User:	Alison Farrell
Date Deposited:	16 Feb 2016 16:10
Journal or Publication Title:	South African Journal of Higher Education
Publisher:	HESA / Unisa Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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