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I have just completed the first stage of my field research into education in Tanzania, where only 49% of children attend lower secondary school, only half of whom complete through to graduation. The 25% completion rate is one of the lowest in the world, ahead of only Chad, Somalia and Afghanistan in the recent UN (GEM,…
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Having carried out my review of the literature, identified a gap in the research and established its theoretical framework, the next task was to design the research – to plan what I’m going to do – how I’m actually going to ‘produce knowledge’! When I set out on this PhD journey I was strongly motivated…
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I’m half way through a seven hour transfer at Doha airport on my way back from Tanzania. After the heat and spices, the laughing bare footed kids, the banter and barter on the streets, the crazy stalls and markets, the rickety buses and dusty tracks, the vibrant colours, characters and chaos… this uber-shiny, monolithic, hyper-conformist, ostentatiously materialistic,…
Back to school Tanzania 