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Dr Carmen Martinez Vargas

Lecturer in Education and Social Justice

  1. 2025
  2. Published

    Decoloniality, identity and the third space: The case of students’ experiences of well-being from an indigenous knowledge system university programme in south africa

    Martinez Vargas, C., Ndou, U. E., Makhanikhe, J. & Madima, T., 28/02/2025, In: International Journal of Educational Research. 130, 102547.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    How dignity matters for life and lifelong learning: insights from participatory story-telling by university students in South Africa

    Walker, M. & Martinez-Vargas, C., 2/01/2025, In: International Journal of Lifelong Education. 44, 1, p. 57-72 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. 2024
  5. Published

    Participatory video as protest methodology: Student activists reaffirm the social dimension of sustainability in South African universities

    Mathebula, M., Martinez Vargas, C., Mkwananzi, F. & Kibona, B., 13/12/2024, In: Southern African Journal of Environmental Education. 40, 1, p. 1-19 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Exploring an alternative access route to higher education in South Africa: A human development and social justice analysis

    Mkwananzi, F. & Martinez-Vargas, C., 30/06/2024, In: Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning. 12, 1, p. 22-39 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. E-pub ahead of print

    Working as facilitators and co-researchers: Opportunities, tensions and complexities in educational participatory research

    Martinez-Vargas, C., Mathebula, M., Cin, M. & Mkwananzi, F., 16/04/2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Educational Action Research.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Towards an Ubuntu and Capabilities-Based Conceptualisation of Sustainable Educational Futures in the South African University: Perspectives from Student Activists

    Martinez Vargas, C., Mathebula, M., Mkwananzi, F., Kibona, B., Malatji, T., Mahlatsi, T., Mmula, P., Khoza, N., Nkosi, S., Ndimba, B., Oamen, B., Buthelezi, A., Maubane, M., Ngwabeni, Y. & Dlamini, S., 20/01/2024, Reparative Futures and Transformative Learning Spaces . Walker, M., Boni, A. & Velasco, D. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 89-109 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  9. 2023
  10. Published

    Ubuntu as a valued capability for university students in South Africa

    Mathebula, M. & Martinez-Vargas, C., 14/12/2023, In: Journal of Student Affairs in Africa . 11, 2, p. 17-33 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. 2022
  12. Published

    A Capabilitarian Participatory Paradigm: Methods, Methodologies and Cosmological Issues and Possibilities

    Martinez Vargas, C., Walker, M., Cin, M. & Boni, A., 31/01/2022, In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. 23, 1, p. 8-29 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    An Epistemological Break: Redefining Participatory Research in Capabilitarian Scholarship

    Walker, M., Boni, A., Martinez Vargas, C. & Cin, M., 30/01/2022, In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. 23, 1, p. 1-7 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineEditorialpeer-review

  14. Published

    Democratising Participatory Research: Pathways to social justice from the Global South

    Vargas, C. M., 20/01/2022, OpenBook Publishers.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  15. 2021
  16. Published

    Educacion Universitaria en Valores desde el Enfoque de Capacidades: Una mirada Teorica y Metodologica Incompleta

    Vargas, C. M., 21/07/2021, La complejidad en la enseñanza de valores: formación permanente, colaboración y autorreflexión para una transformación social. 1 ed. Dykinson, p. 29-38

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  17. Published

    Broadening the normative and evaluative space for assessing the impact of photo diary research in higher education: A capabilities approach

    Mathebula, M. & Vargas, C. M., 28/03/2021, Exploring Diary Method in Higher Education Research: Opportunities Choices and Challenges’ Routledge SRHE Series. Cao, X. & Henderson, E. F. (eds.). 1 ed. Routledge, 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  18. 2020
  19. Published

    Democratic Capabilities Research: Exploring contextual challenges and contributions of participatory research towards epistemic justice

    Vargas, C. M., 27/11/2020, Participatory Research, Capabilities and Epistemic Justice: A Transformative Agenda for Higher Education. Walker, M. & Boni, A. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 139-164 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  20. Published

    Epistemic Governance and the Colonial Epistemic Structure: Towards Epistemic Humility and Transformed South-North Relations

    Walker, M. & Vargas, C. M., 20/10/2020, In: Critical Studies in Education. 63, 5, p. 556-571 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Decolonising Higher Education Research: From a uni-versity to a pluri-versity of approaches

    Vargas, C. M., 30/05/2020, In: South African Journal of Higher Education. 34, 2, p. 112-128 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Participatory Action Research: Towards (non-ideal) epistemic justice in a university in South Africa

    Walker, M., Vargas, C. M. & Mkwananzi, F., 30/04/2020, In: Journal of Global Ethics. 16, 1, p. 77-94 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. 2019
  24. Published

    Access to higher education in South Africa: Expanding capabilities in and through an undergraduate Photovoice project

    Vargas, C. M., Walker, M. & Mkwananzi, F., 31/05/2019, In: Educational Action Research. 27, 2, p. 427-442 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. 2018
  26. Published

    The Palgrave international handbook of action research

    Martinez Vargas, C., 31/12/2018, In: Educational Action Research. 26, 4, p. 1-2 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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