Contemporary Capacity-building in Educational Contexts

Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts extends current understandings of what capacities and capacity-building are and of the dimensions that maximise their prospects of success in current educational policy-making and provision. It does this by exploring how capacity-building is implemented among nine groups of research participants, including Australian, Dutch and English circus families, migrants and refugees in an Australian regional town, and a university education research team. These data sets are analysed to address eight 'hot topics' and 'wicked problems' in contemporary education: consciousness; creativity; dis/empowerment and agency; diversity and identity; forms of capital and currencies; knowledge sharing; regionality and rurality; and resilience.

Patrick Alan Danaher is Professor in Educational Research at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Andy Davies is Research Supervisor for the Simulation Department at the Sidra Medical and Research Centre in Doha, Qatar.

Linda De George-Walker is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Central Queensland University, Australia.

Janice K. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Arts Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Karl J. Matthews is a Researcher at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Warren Midgley is Head of the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Catherine H. Arden is Lecturer in Adult and Vocational Education and Training/Senior Schooling at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Margaret Baguley is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.