Making educational research count for children with disabilities in Malawi, Kenya and Uganda

让教育研究对马拉维、肯尼亚和乌干达的残疾儿童有意义

• 批准号: ES/L002078/1
• 负责人: Paul Lynch
• 金额: $ 4.67万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL002078%2F1
• 关键词: Making; educational; research; count; children

This project aims to address the exclusion of disabled children in Africa from quality education. It will do so by establishing a wide network of partners from a variety of sectors including UK and African universities, NGOs, educational managers and coordinators, practitioners and government staff in Kenya, Malawi and Uganda.Foremost, the project will build on the current collaborations between the University of Birmingham, the University of Cambridge, the International NGO Sightsavers and specialist education communities in the three target countries, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda.The project will draw on existing primary research to address a number of issues around the current educational support available for children with visual impairment, focusing on Malawi, Uganda and Kenya. The ultimate goal is to strengthen the capacity of our local partners allowing them to set their own research agendas and inform the development of effective education systems. In order to successfully target this implementation gap, the key aspects to be addressed are:- Insufficient measures to implement research findings designed to develop new practices in the classroom;- Lack of evidence available to local stakeholders, (including lack of information in an accessible or understandable format);- Constraints posed by insufficient capacities of local actors to interpret research findings and their transferability;- Challenges posed by the isolation from a wider academic community involved in education research.The above points will be addressed with reference to existing research in a series of eight interactive work packages involving all stakeholders, ensuring a reciprocal flow of knowledge between all parties. The key output will be to establish an innovative online community which will enable the free flow of information in the form of webinars, podcasts, topical forum discussion, the submission of publications and blog posts. Stakeholders will be encouraged to continue to contribute to this community after the initial 12-month period, establishing a space where ongoing future research can be discussed and developed. The intention is that the research outputs from this international online community will influence policy in the area of the education of children and young people with visual impairment and across a broader disability agenda in Africa.

该项目旨在解决非洲残疾儿童被排除在优质教育之外的问题。该项目将通过建立广泛的合作伙伴网络，包括英国和非洲的大学、非政府组织、肯尼亚、马拉维和乌干达的教育管理者和协调员、实践者和政府工作人员。最重要的是，该项目将建立在伯明翰大学、剑桥大学、国际非政府组织Sightsaver和肯尼亚、马拉维和乌干达三个目标国家的专业教育社区之间目前的合作基础上。该项目将利用现有的初级研究来解决目前为视障儿童提供的教育支持的一些问题，重点是马拉维、乌干达和肯尼亚。最终目标是加强我们当地合作伙伴的能力，使他们能够制定自己的研究议程，并为发展有效的教育系统提供信息。为了成功地解决这一实施差距，需要解决的关键方面是：-没有足够的措施来落实旨在在课堂上发展新做法的研究结果；-当地利益攸关方缺乏证据(包括缺乏可接触或可理解的形式的信息)；-当地行为者解释研究结果及其可转移性的能力不足造成的限制；-与参与教育研究的更广泛的学术界隔绝所带来的挑战。上述问题将参考现有的八个互动工作包中的现有研究来解决，这些工作包涉及所有利益攸关方，确保所有各方之间的知识互惠流动。主要成果将是建立一个创新的在线社区，使信息能够以网上研讨会、播客、专题论坛讨论、出版物提交和博客帖子的形式自由流动。将鼓励利益相关者在最初的12个月后继续为这个社区做出贡献，建立一个可以讨论和发展正在进行的未来研究的空间。其目的是，这一国际在线社区的研究成果将影响视力障碍儿童和青年教育领域的政策，并影响整个非洲更广泛的残疾议程。