eprintid: 1541255
rev_number: 43
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
dir: disk0/01/54/12/55
datestamp: 2017-02-23 12:34:06
lastmod: 2022-01-01 23:03:38
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Mazenod, A
title: Lost in translation? Comparative education research and the production of academic knowledge
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
keywords: local knowledge, scientific capital, apprenticeship, research translation, knowledge dissemination, comparative education
note: © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
abstract: The worth of academic knowledge tends to be tested against global metrics of citations and articles published in high-ranking English language academic journals. This paper examines academic knowledge production in three local fields of research with different national languages (English, Finnish and French). It focuses on knowledge production on the topic of apprenticeship where there are distinctive differences in the three local research fields and the associated patterns of academic publication over a fifteen-year period. The findings suggest that publication patterns are still largely tied to the respective national languages. Concerns are raised about the limited visibility of non-Anglophone local contexts and conceptual frameworks as filtered through global academic knowledge production processes. The language practices in the production of academic knowledge need to be challenged to ensure that knowledge from these sources is not lost in translation or in the re-contextualisation for global audiences.
date: 2018
date_type: published
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2017.1297696
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1209377
doi: 10.1080/03057925.2017.1297696
lyricists_name: Mazenod, Anna
lyricists_id: AMAZE10
actors_name: Mazenod, Anna
actors_id: AMAZE10
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
volume: 48
number: 2
pagerange: 189-205
citation:        Mazenod, A;      (2018)    Lost in translation? Comparative education research and the production of academic knowledge.                   Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education , 48  (2)   pp. 189-205.    10.1080/03057925.2017.1297696 <https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2017.1297696>.       Green open access   
 
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