This research investigates how and why educators in West Africa, in Mali in particular, pedagogically appropriate information and communication technologies (ICT) and with what effects. Appropriation involves integrating newness into one’s very being and mobilizing it strategically to meet contextualized objectives, often in resistance to the status quo.
The fifth edition of the Journal of Educational Research in Africa contains eight papers on educational issues in North and West Africa. They relate to technical training, higher education and curriculum reform as well as overeducation, child labor, religious pluralism at school, and the influence of mothers’ educational levels on their children’s academic performance. The [...]
Jusque-là, le nombre des participants est dérisoire. Une meilleure prise en charge des projets et un meilleur suivi des enseignants primés sont susceptibles de garantir cet esprit d’émulation. Pour la cinquième année consécutive, le Cnipre (Centre national d’innovation pédagogique et de recherches en éducation) organise en collaboration avec la Fondation Microsoft le Forum des enseignants [...]
L’utilisation de technologies comme l’ordinateur et l’internet en éducation est-elle en train de changer l’enseignement et l’apprentissage ? Oui ! C’est ce que des dizaines de chercheurs africains, ayant travaillé de 2003-2012 en collaboration avec des chercheurs de l’Université de Montréal, ont trouvé. Les données de terrain de plus d’une centaine écoles à travers le continent ont [...]
Is the use of technologies like the computer and internet ineducation changing teaching and learning? Yes! This is what dozens of African researchers,working from 2003 to 2012 in collaboration with researchers at the University of Montreal, found. Field data from over one hundred schools across the African continent has been made available as open data [...]
Turn the Page KC, an effort to improve third-grade reading proficiency in Kansas City schools, has received some national recognition.
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading has named Turn the Page one of its “35 Pacesetters for 2013.”
ONE of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as a phenomenon specific to the sciences. A report published in 2008 by America’s National Science Foundation, for example, found that in most fields of science and engineering male [...]
Newton, Einstein, Hawking — they showed us the power of one beautiful mind to radically alter our understanding of the universe. Clarisse Uwizeye could be the next genius to turn science on its head, yet the world nearly lost her beautiful mind.
At age seven, Uwizeye barely escaped the genocide in her homeland of Rwanda, fleeing with her family to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Two years later, war came to Congo and the family had to run again, back to Rwanda. Her parents vanished, never to be seen again.
Books and magazines tell tragic stories of black men incarcerated in such alarming numbers that some critics have challenged and speculated about the intent of America’s criminal justice system. The challenges are frequently accompanied by dismal statistics documenting low reading achievement usually leads to high drop-out rates and speculation that the deck of opportunity is stacked against black men. It’s especially difficult for those raised in single parent homes that battle the burdens of poverty. [...]
The middle of Cristina Ortiz’s sophomore year, it hit her. Despair? Or maybe fear? Certainly a crisis of confidence. I can’t be an engineer. “I reached a point where I stopped believing in myself,” she said. Many other students like her in the first class of Kauffman Scholars — students from low-income households, many trying [...]