Currently viewing the category:
"Academic"
I was notified this morning that my proposal titled, “A Comparison of Educational Development in North and South Nigeria: Implications of Gender Disparity,” has been accepted to be presented at the 2011 Educational Symposium for Research and Innovations (ESRI) at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. over March 4-5, 2011. The full paper will be [...]
Update: Ian Thorpe blogged “There’s no such thing as a free journal” over at KM on a dollar a day referencing this blog post. I highly recommend reading Ian’s take on the journal business. Absolutely great post. The most important tip is that one must realise that academic publishing is a game. New academics therefore [...]
I am traveling to Brazil in March as a part of a study abroad course I am taking at GWU. One thing I am doing in preparation is reading the essentials on education in Brazil, starting with Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire. I am learning a tremendous amount already and am seeing an [...]
After reading “African academics ‘slow to use online journals’” over at SciDev, I couldn’t help but read deeper into the story. The importance of increasing academic research in Africa really cannot be overestimated. Research is crucial not only for the advancement of knowledge on the continent itself, but also for Africa’s economic and academic participation [...]
As part of my Spring semester as a graduate student at GWU, I will be focusing on Latin America the entire semester. I have been studying Africa and heavily involved in work on the African continent for several years and have only recently birthed a new interest and optimism for education, development, and political participation [...]
I have created a new page on this site to begin posting all of my research interests, current and future. All of my topics for research in my graduate papers will go up there as well as non-graduate research interests I (somehow) find time to do. If you find yourself interested in the same topics, [...]
Update (11/9/2010): As luck would have it happen, my paper is coming along very nicely and I have a wealth of data to analyze. This can work both ways. Too much data can make your conclusions more cloudy if you’re not careful. Too little data is an easy problem to understand. I seem to have [...]
“The most valuable part of comparative work in another culture is the chance to be shaken by it, and the experience of struggling to understand it.”-Susan Goldberg, Infant Care and Growth in Urban Zambia, 1977
“The principal comparative advantage of comparative education is that the field is literally constituted by border crossings, and comparative educators, by necessity, roam far beyond education. In my view, no other disciplinary or professional field has such a broad, interconnected vantage point from which to view the dilemmas of our time. Education is the anchor [...]
While I am entering the gates which lead to the 2-year pathway to earn my graduate degree, I’m already thinking about life afterwards. What will I do? Where will I live? Lots of unanswered question coming to mind. But I’m not worried. Time seems to sort things out fairly well. All of these questions combined [...]
Recent Posts
- Next book on my list: “Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty”
- The higher education revolution is underway
- Incentive markets in everything: food for garbage
- Education, inequality, and the 1%
- The potential in mobile tech for agriculture sustainability and food security
- Study: School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries
- Congo launching first science journal in 2012
Archives
