, RSE4801 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
2025 - DUE 15 May 2025 [ TWO ESSAYS PROVIDED]
Given this, you are required to complete a reflective essay of
about 1800 – 2000 words in which you reflect on what you think
(1) makes and/or constitutes an exceptional educational
researcher in a context like South (Africa), and (2) what do you
think will inform and shape your own becoming of an
educational researcher.
In answering these questions, you asking expected to draw from
the following ideas and texts:
-
Decolonising Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
(1999) by Linda Tuhiwai Smith.
-
Ideas of intervention, curiosity, courage, justice (be it epistemic,
ontological or social), and critique.
Reflective Essay: The Making of an Exceptional
Educational Researcher in South Africa
Introduction
Education research in South Africa operates within a
complex historical, social, and political landscape shaped
by colonialism, apartheid, and ongoing struggles for
epistemic justice. Becoming an exceptional educational
researcher in this context requires more than
methodological expertise; it demands a decolonial
orientation, ethical commitment, and a willingness to
2025 - DUE 15 May 2025 [ TWO ESSAYS PROVIDED]
Given this, you are required to complete a reflective essay of
about 1800 – 2000 words in which you reflect on what you think
(1) makes and/or constitutes an exceptional educational
researcher in a context like South (Africa), and (2) what do you
think will inform and shape your own becoming of an
educational researcher.
In answering these questions, you asking expected to draw from
the following ideas and texts:
-
Decolonising Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
(1999) by Linda Tuhiwai Smith.
-
Ideas of intervention, curiosity, courage, justice (be it epistemic,
ontological or social), and critique.
Reflective Essay: The Making of an Exceptional
Educational Researcher in South Africa
Introduction
Education research in South Africa operates within a
complex historical, social, and political landscape shaped
by colonialism, apartheid, and ongoing struggles for
epistemic justice. Becoming an exceptional educational
researcher in this context requires more than
methodological expertise; it demands a decolonial
orientation, ethical commitment, and a willingness to
