RSE4801 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2026 - Distinction | Due 15 May 2026

RSE4801 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2026 - Distinction Due 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. THE ACTIVIST EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER: A FORCE FOR JUSTICE IN TIMES OF CRISIS Being an activist researcher of education means using research to respond to injustice and crisis rather than remaining neutral. The world is not only facing wars and genocides, but also quieter, yet destructive, forms of violence. These include the killing of knowledge systems (epistemicide), the destruction of different ways of being and living (onticide), the death of languages (linguisticide), the erasure of cultures (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