Education International Africa

Articles

1. 28 February 2019

   

   Constructing teachers’ professional identities

   Philippa Cordingley, Bart Crisp, Paige Johns, Thomas Perry, Carol Campbell, Miranda Bell and Megan Bradbury.

   Philippa Cordingley

   Research

   This study aims at examining how teachers’ professional identities are constructed in seven contrasting education systems. The jurisdictions - Berlin, Chile, Kenya, Ontario, Scotland, Singapore and Sweden - were selected to achieve an economic and geographical balance and a range of contexts in relation to educational performance and teacher supply...

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   2. Case studies

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2. 17 May 2017

   

   Organising teaching: Developing the power of the profession

   Research

   This study reports on the experience of several teacher unions as they respond to the challenges facing teachers in a range of national contexts: Chile, Kenya, New Zealand, Poland, Scotland, Turkey, and the United States of America.

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3. 4 April 2017

   

   Assessment of the breadth of learning opportunities in public schools in Kenya and Zambia

   Research

   These reports are based on a partnership project with Brookings in which Education International worked with the KNUT on a secondary school survey in Kenya and with ZNUT on a primary school survey in Zambia to investigate the breadth of learning opportunities available in state schools.

   1. Zambia report
   2. Kenya report
   3. Summary

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4. 22 December 2016

   

   Bridge vs. Reality: a study of Bridge International Academies’ for-profit schooling in Kenya

   by Education International and Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT)

   Research

   Bridge International Academies (BIA) is a large and expanding business that provides for-profit private education in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and India. With support and investment coming from global edubusiness Pearson, the World Bank, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and high profile actors such as Mark Zuckerberg and the...

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5. 19 December 2007

   

   Teacher supply, recruitment and retention in six Anglophone Sub-Saharan African countries

   Dennis Sinyolo

   Research

   The purpose of this survey was to investigate teacher supply, teacher attrition, teacher remuneration and motivation, teacher absenteeism and union involvement in policy development in six Anglophone African countries: The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania Uganda and Zambia.

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