EdQual Seminar Series
EdQual Seminar UK - May 2007
First EdQual Seminar on the Meaning and significance of "Education Quality" hosted by Angeline Barrett, University of Bristol and Jutta Nikel, University of Bath. 21st November 2006.
Second EdQual Seminar Sheila Aikman, a member of our Advisory Group and Global Education Policy Advisor for Oxfam GB, and Elaine Unterhalter of the Institute of London talked about "Gender Equality and Quality Education". Sheila and Elaine are joint co-ordinators of a DfID-funded research project "Gender, Education and Development:Beyond Access Project" that aims to contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goal of promoting gender equality by critically examining knowledge about how to achieve gender equitable basic education. Hosted by the Graduate School of Education, Wednesday 7th February 2007.
GMR Seminar Abstract May 2007
To view a video of the seminar please contact ellie.tucker@bristol.ac.uk
Third Seminar - Improving the quality of teaching and learning in under-resourced contexts: what really matters? led by Angeline Barrett, Jutta Nikel, Leon Tikly & Guoxing Yu
The international development community and national governments have set themselves the goal of ensuring that all children will have access to and complete free primary education of good quality by 2015 (Dakar Framework for Action, 2000). As more countries move closer to universalising access to education, attention is increasingly being focused on the hardest to reach groups and the quality of teaching and learning.
The seminar draws on a review of recent literature carried out by EdQual researchers addressing the central question: what improvements can have the greatest impact on learning for the greatest number of learners in under-resourced contexts? It will cover three major themes:
*quality as equity - meeting diverse learners' needs;
*curricula to promote relevant learning - recent trends with respect to content,
*pedagogy and language of instruction;
*enabling teachers, including the role of enabling inputs.
Some of the issues covered will be taken up in more depth by speakers later in this term's EdQual seminar series - Bob Moon & Alison Buckler (Teachers and Development - 6 June, 11.30am); John Lowe (Quality & Equity - 19 June, 12.30pm) and Yusuf Sayed (Achieving Education for All - 20 June, 11.30am).
