Paul R. Carr

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What is the value of pluri-annual reviews of academic performance for tenured professors?

In many universities, notably in North America but most likely around the world, there are five-year reviews of professors throughout the careers. The reviews can take the form of assembling...

20 May 2022 4,115 1 View

What does, and what should, global citizenship look like in and through education as well as outside of education?

This admittedly vast question is an important question for our UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education (DCMÉT), and one that we believe is under-emphasized and...

09 April 2017 3,880 8 View

What is the impact of progressive, critical social science research in the face of right and extreme-right governments?

With the rise and legitimation of extreme-right movements and governments in many jurisdictions, I am interested in knowing what colleagues think about the prospects, potential, consequences and...

26 May 2016 7,157 15 View

How important are funded research grants to doing research?

I have often wondered if funded research grants enhance or hinder research. With the five-year grant that I have received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, I have...

25 January 2016 1,406 15 View

What are the most effective ways of developing international partnerships and networks in relation to social justice/democracy/education?

I am interested in knowing of the practices, challenges, processes, benefits, outcomes, dynamics, etc. of those who have engaged in developing , or who have an interest in, international...

22 November 2015 4,425 8 View

How can, and should, we measure the impact of the hegemony of research production and dissemination in English?

I am wondering what is lost, neglected, omitted and/or diminished but the increasing insistence on publishing primarily or exclusively in English. Does this mean that researchers do not read in,...

21 October 2014 7,941 25 View

Are there programs in formal education that specifically aim for education for democracy in a critical and counter-hegemonic way, and are effective?

I've been researching education for democracy and its off-shoots, such as democratic education, citizenship education, global citizenship, and social justice education, etc., for over a decade,...

05 September 2014 4,864 13 View

Engagement with social media when doing research on social media engagement

How should/could we consider all of the dimensions, polarization and dialectic and problematic forms of engagement within and in relation to social when doing research on citizen engagement in...

01 January 1970 1,555 4 View