Redaktører
Maria Virginia Machado Dazzani, Kristine Stadskleiv, Min He, Luca Tateo
Sammendrag
Chapter 1 introduces the research-tandem model as innovative practice of international students’ mobility with a particular focus on collaborative research. Based on the principles of cultural psychology of inclusion, the model aims to promote student-led research and cultivate a collaborative, intercultural, inclusive, and interdisciplinary idea of science since the early stages of higher education. First, the importance of mobility and global science is stressed against the resurgence of a nationalistic perspective. Then, the research-tandem model is presented as alternative to the neoliberal competitive model. Finally, the rationale of the volume and the content of each chapter are described, stressing the social relevance of the focus on inclusive science and the potentialities of young students to produce quality research.
The volume collects the products of the students’ empirical field studies between 2023. The book is organized in two sections. In the first part, the empirical studies conducted by the research-tandems in Norway and Brazil are presented. Although East China Normal University was one of the planned destinations, traveling to China has been difficult due to the persisting pandemic emergency and entry restrictions.
In the second part, the commentaries of early-career researchers and mentors are provided to reflect upon the educational and scientific trajectory that characterizes the project of an innovative, decolonial, and collaborative approach to socialize students to international research from an early stage of their higher education