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Lost in translation? Comparative education research and the production of academic knowledge

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. Green open access

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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.

Type: Article
Title: Lost in translation? Comparative education research and the production of academic knowledge
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2017.1297696
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2017.1297696
Language: English
Additional information: © 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.
Keywords: local knowledge, scientific capital, apprenticeship, research translation, knowledge dissemination, comparative education
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1541255
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