T-Learning Transformative Knowledge Network Partners
Partners have been selected from across institution types (academic, civil society and public sector) for a) substantive expertise in the research area, b) experience and expertise of the lead researchers in leading and facilitating change-oriented learning, c) track record of past and existing capacity development for transformative social learning, and d) ability to support relevant case development and host / supervise / support participating postgraduate scholars, e) capacity to contribute innovatively and critically at theoretical and methodological levels, f) commitment to engage issues transgressively and transformatively at the water-food-energy-climate-social justice nexus, g) capacity of their institutions and institutional affiliations for enabling wider catalytic impacts from the programme (esp. in policy, education system development, and action project arenas), and h) capacity of the institutions to provide some forms of support in kind to the programme (e.g. hosting of postgraduate scholars to support case study development, hosting of local sub-groups of the wider TKN).
NETWORK CO-ORDINATION ARRANGEMENTS
The TKN will be hosted at Rhodes University in the Environmental Learning Research Centre, South Africa. Main forms of interaction will be via normal communication channels (e.g. email, skype etc.), via the T-learning LAB site, and via three meta-level meetings that will be coupled to research school activities over the three year period. The RU ELRC will establish and maintain a database for the TKN, and will be responsible for monitoring activities in research sites, and for regular communications. A research school network will be co-ordinated via the T-learning LAB site and tools. Individual case study research leaders will take responsibility for case study development and for local TKN development as appropriate to their contexts. The T-learning LAB site will make provision for expanding networking interactions at case level, and across cases.
NETWORK CO-ORDINATION ARRANGEMENTS
The TKN will be hosted at Rhodes University in the Environmental Learning Research Centre, South Africa. Main forms of interaction will be via normal communication channels (e.g. email, skype etc.), via the T-learning LAB site, and via three meta-level meetings that will be coupled to research school activities over the three year period. The RU ELRC will establish and maintain a database for the TKN, and will be responsible for monitoring activities in research sites, and for regular communications. A research school network will be co-ordinated via the T-learning LAB site and tools. Individual case study research leaders will take responsibility for case study development and for local TKN development as appropriate to their contexts. The T-learning LAB site will make provision for expanding networking interactions at case level, and across cases.
