From ideas to outcomes: learning from
research collaboration with African partner universities
CRI Teaching through Research workshop
Elina Lehtomäki
24 March 2014
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Exclusion
Dropout
What do we know?
What do we not know?
How could we know better?
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Consultancy: education
development in Tanzania
UNESCOCapacity
Building in Africa
Bilateral cooperation: Ministry of Education,
Ethiopia
First ideas of three people in three different projects:
Previous research and critique on education development in sub-Saharan Africa
Increased access to primary education but: - shortage of qualitified teachers- high dropouts rates- out-of-school children- inadequate quality and poor relevance of learning- inequality in advancement- top-down policy processes and leadership- weak connections between school and wider
society
WHAT DO THE STUDENTS SAY?
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Educated Girls and Women in Tanzania: Socio-cultural Interpretations on
the Meaning of EducationA multidisciplinary research project explores achievements and challenges of educational equity policies, processes and practices in Tanzania.
The focus is on socio-cultural interpretations of the meaning of education for girls and women, including girls and women with disabilities.
The studies analyze experience and perceptions of girls and women, who, against odds, have succeeded to continue their educational path up to secondary and higher education, on the meaning of education in their lives and factors contributing to advancement.
From sharing ideas to research
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Outputs: three doctoral dissertations
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Hanna Posti-Ahokas:Female Students’
Perspectives of Relevance of Secondary Education in
Tanzania – A critical social explanation
Magreth Matonya:Accessibility of Higher Learning in Tanzania,
Experiences of Women with Disabilities
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Lehtomäki & Hukkanen (forthcoming): Tanzanian girls and women with [dis]abilities claiming their right to education
Learning (and teaching) through research collaboration
Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue:– Working conditions: access to research literature,
library services, funding of field work, advisors– Leadership and administration: high vs. low
authority, top-down vs. collaborative– Knowledge: local context and global picture,
research approaches, methods and culturally, socially appropriate applications and innovations
Shared views, diverse approaches, long-term collaboration and new partnerships
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What about outcomes?
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New projects and collaboration
Culturally responsive teacher education (Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa, Finland)
African-Finnish Network for Inclusive Teacher Education (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Finland)
From Disability to Capability
Influencing programmes of intergovernmental and international organisations, e.g. UN inclusive education in post-2015 Millennium Development Goals
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Global Connectedness: Student Voices on the Value of Cross-cultural Learning Dialogue
Lehtomäki, E., Posti-Ahokas, H., Moate, J.ECER Network 20: Research in innovative intercultural
learning environments
Contribution of qualitative education research to future European – African cooperation
Lehtomäki, E., Posti-Ahokas, H., Okkolin, M.A., Matonya, M., Bhalalusesa, E.
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