RSE4801 Assignment 1 Memo Activist Researchers in Crisis 2026

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RSE4801 ASSIGNMENT 1 MEMO 2026

DUE DATE: DUE: FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2026




In light of this, you are required to write an essay of about 2000 –
3000 words in which you discuss what you think (1) constitutes an
activist researcher of education, and (2) what role do you think such a
researcher can play in a time of crisis characterised by many genocides
including epistemicide, ontocide, linguisticide, culturcide and
scholasticide.




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Being an activist researcher of education means using research to respond to injustice
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and crisis rather than remaining neutral. The world is not only facing wars and
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genocides, but also quieter, yet destructive, forms of violence. These include the killing
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of knowledge systems (epistemicide), the destruction of different ways of being and
living (onticide), the death of languages (linguisticide), the erasure of cultures
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(culturcide), and the destruction of education itself (scholasticide). An activist researcher
is therefore not a neutral observer, but someone who uses research as a tool for
intervention and justice. In a time of multiple genocides, the role of such a researcher is
to resist destruction, recover lost knowledges, and reimagine a more just world.



(RSE4801, 2026, Unit 1, p. 3)



Part 1: What Constitutes an Activist Researcher of Education?




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