Tag: Research
Prioritising early learning research in sub-Saharan Africa for equitable learning outcomes
This blog builds on a previous analysis highlighting limited research addressing early years in sub-Saharan Africa, and continues to draw attention to the need to prioritise early learning for equitable learning outcomes.
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Partnership is key for evidence to translate into impact: Lessons from RISE Ethiopia
This blog highlights the impact achieved from the FCDO-funded RISE Ethiopia programme. RISE was a predecessor to the What Works Hub for Global Education, seeking to understand how national education systems could overcome the learning crisis.
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Farmer Research Networks in Malawi as a socially just model of inclusive knowledge co-creation
This article provides a video of a presentation given at the September 2023 UKFIET conference by team members from Statistics for Sustainable Development (Stats4SD).
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Implementation research for sustainability: encouraging holistic thinking
There is welcome interest in the issue of ‘implementation’ in the context of international educational development, as exemplified by Maria Brindlmayer. She and the Building Evidence in Education (BE2) team challenge the notion of a rigid theory of change, suggesting that ongoing research during the implementation of an intervention .....
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Understanding research priorities and professional development needs of early years researchers in Africa
Even though research from Africa has increased over the last decade, it is still low compared to other regions. This can be attributed to several factors, including limited investment in research priorities and professional development of researchers in the region.
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Disrupting Power Dynamics in Collaborative Educational Research: Dialogue-based Research on Family, School, and Community Engagement
This study is part of a larger transnational research collaborative that is developing a methodology for understanding families’, educators’, and students' beliefs and experiences in education, and strategies for how to create deeper partnerships. In this research collaboration, educators are leading research with schools in their communities.
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Lessons learned from a North-South research partnership in Rwanda
The last two decades have seen an increase in Global South and Global North research partnerships. This has been motivated in part by the Sustainable Development Goals, which identify “Partnerships for the goals” as one of the most effective means through which to achieve their aims. Within the context of…
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It’s Time to Update the Narrative on Educational Technology Research
If you’ve spent any time in the technology in education world, particularly in developing country donor-funded work, you probably know the general lament about the many deficiencies of educational technology research: its paucity, its poverty and lack of purity.
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Storytelling research in international education and development: a resistance to, or reproduction of coloniality?
This blog was written by Alison Buckler, Senior Research Fellow, The Open University; Jennifer Agbaire, Research Associate, The Open University; Joanna Wheeler, Director,...
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Listening to African Researchers: Making sure evidence informs education policy and practice
This blog was written by Samuel Asare, Pauline Essah and Izel Kipruto from Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA); and Pauline Rose and Sandra Baxter from the Research for Equitable...
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Early career researchers and practitioners – first session at the 2021 UKFIET conference
This article summarises an interview with co-chair of the opening session of the UKFIET conference for early career professionals: Katie Godfrey, CAMFED and Emma Jackson,...
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Research methods: Building back better in international education and development research – what to expect from the 2021 UKFIET conference
This article summarises an interview with co-convenors of one of six 2021 UKFIET conference themes: Research methods: Building back better in international education and...
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