Decisionmaking in collaborative research and action

As the world faces increasingly frequent and interconnected crises like geopolitical shocks and environmental disasters, the need to ensure the protection and relevance of the education systems that serve the world’s children has never been more acute. Over the last two decades, the work of the Center for Universal Education (CUE), along with our partners and collaborators, has shown that intentional and meaningful collaboration is key to education systems transformation. 

Collaboration is central to how we work at CUE. But how do we make decisions about how, when, and why to collaborate? When working with local communities and families, country-based researchers, advocates, and policymakers, how do we make decisions that consider power dynamics that determine whose experience and knowledge counts? 

On December 10, join us for the second session of the Collaboration Conversation series, which will focus on sharing some of our learnings about collaborative decisionmaking. During this discussion, partners from around the world will share their thoughts on what decisions they have found important during the collaborative process, the relevance of consensus (and dissent!), and the tensions between flexibility and efficiency when making collaborative decisions. They will also share some lessons learned about the links between collaborative decisionmaking, equity, and justice, with work that gathers diverse actors from the Global North and Global South.

This event is part of the five-part series Collaboration Conversations on power, localization, and education systems transformation.