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

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。它将通过建立广泛的合作伙伴网络来实现这一目标，这些合作伙伴来自各个部门，包括英国和非洲的大学、非政府组织、教育管理人员和协调员、从业人员以及肯尼亚、马拉维和乌干达的政府工作人员。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“视力拯救者”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的合作基础上。该项目将利用现有的初步研究来解决围绕目前为视力受损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，并为有效教育系统的发展提供信息。为了成功地弥补这一实施差距，需要解决的关键方面是：-实施旨在在课堂上开发新实践的研究成果的措施不足；-当地利益相关者缺乏可用的证据（包括缺乏可获取或可理解格式的信息）；-当地行动者解释研究结果及其可转移性的能力不足所造成的限制；-与参与教育研究的更广泛的学术界隔绝所构成的挑战。上述各点将参照现有研究，在涉及所有利益攸关方的一系列八个互动工作包中加以解决，确保所有各方之间的知识相互流动。关键的产出将是建立一个创新的在线社区，使信息能够以网络研讨会、播客、专题论坛讨论、提交出版物和博客文章的形式自由流动。在最初的12个月后，将鼓励利益相关者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，这个国际在线社区的研究成果将影响非洲视力受损儿童和青年教育领域的政策以及更广泛的残疾议程。

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.