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Course Dates: September 4 – September 19, 2019

Training Location: Ibadan, Nigeria

Contact Person: nirungu@pasgr.org

The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research is currently accepting applications for the September 2019 Advanced Training for Multi-Method and Policy-Oriented Research. This includes:

Advanced Research Design
Impact Evaluation
Engendering Social Science Research

This training is relevant to African academics, researchers, PhD. students, the civil society, media, government departments and policy actors interested in broadening their knowledge and skills in the design and execution of policy-oriented research.

This is a residential programme that will be offered in two consecutive blocks, including a mandatory pre- and post- workshop online engagement.

Applicants interested in pursuing this opportunity should:

Read the Call for applications
Register and complete the Application Process for your preferred course:

The deadline for submission: July 7, 2019

Some of the participants engage during the PedaL Training Hub in Uganda.

African Higher Education must incorporate pedagogical leadership skills in teaching to transform teaching and learning on the continent.

The Director of Higher Education at the Partnership for Social and Governance Research (PASGR), Nairobi Kenya Dr. Beatrice Muganda stated this while featuring on Diamond Fm Radio University of Ibadan.

The Education Policy expert asked lecturers and institutions to incorporate trans-formative curriculum design; technology-enhanced learning, group work, e-cases and digitally enabled stories to achieve the best learning outcomes.

According to her, there was the need for African researchers and lecturers to incorporate pedagogical skills in teaching to catalyze exceptional learning moments.

Dr. Muganda who noted that the University of Ibadan has been playing a leadership role among the partner institution added that the goal of pedagogical leadership in African higher education is to transform lecturers to facilitators and students to co-creators of knowledge.

She noted that the old strategy of spoon-feeding students has not achieved the best learning outcomes urging lecturers to break the barriers and make their classes more interactive by making their students active.

“We need pedagogical leadership in African institutions in order to transform the way teaching and learning happens. We need to mobilize resources to catalyse exceptional learning moments. PedaL will transform a lecturer to a knowledge facilitator and make students co-creators of knowledge. We must embrace technology in African to enhance learning outcomes and improve interactions in the learning spaces. All lecturers need pedagogical training and skills to get the best outcomes for African transformation”

This has been re-posted from http://nationalinsightnews.com/african-higher-education-needs-pedagogical-transformation-pasgr-director/

About 200 African scholars were in Kenya for two weeks to fashion out ways of revolutionising tertiary education in Africa. The scholars from 13 African universities and four research institutions, met on the platform of Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) to explore new learning methods that would be beneficial to learners in the region.

This has been re-posted from
https://guardian.ng/features/african-scholars-explore-new-learning-methods-for-sectors-growth/

African universities need a systematic change in teaching and learning approaches to help lecturers deal with growing student numbers and inadequate facilities and to produce graduates who can make meaningful contributions in today’s knowledge-based economies.

This message was a key driver of discussions at a pedagogical leadership training session aimed at lecturers in the social sciences from five countries in Africa, held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 8-14 July.

This has been re-posted from https://bit.ly/2Egh4gL