Knowledge Justice Archives

Leaving No One Behind – On the Intersection of Open Science, Knowledge (In-)Equity and Inclusive Education in the North-South Divide

by Felicitas Kruschick | May 18, 2021 | Gen R Blog, Knowledge Justice | 0

“From West to the Rest” (Grech 2011, 88) – this is what is being said in the context of inclusive education under a postcolonial perspective. Inclusive Education can be seen as a form of (‘western’) cultural imperialism is being said elsewhere (Haskell 1998). And yes, by looking behind the curtain of the globally understood concept of inclusive education it becomes clear that all that glitters is not gold.

Launch of Translate Science

by Gen R | May 7, 2021 | Blog, Gen R Blog, Knowledge Justice | 0

Translate Science is interested in the translation of the scholarly literature. Translate Science is an open volunteer group interested in improving the translation of the scientific literature. The group has come together to support work on tools, services and advocate for translating science.

Decolonizing Scholarly Communications through Bibliodiversity

by Gen R | Apr 28, 2021 | Blog, Gen R Blog, Knowledge Justice | 0

Diversity is an important characteristic of any healthy ecosystem. In the field of scholarly communications, diversity in services and platforms, funding mechanisms and evaluation measures will allow the ecosystem to accommodate the different workflows, languages, publication outputs and research topics that support the needs of different research communities.