Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Gwadabe Kurawa's Outputs (17)

Towards an ecological systems approach to doctoral student resilience: qualitative evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic (2025)
Journal Article
Celbis, O., van de Laar, M., Windsor, W. L., Papatsiba, V., Ofosu-Ampong, K., Kurawa, G., Sadat Bole, A., Ani-Amponsah, M., & Xu, L. (online). Towards an ecological systems approach to doctoral student resilience: qualitative evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-06-2024-0065

Purpose
This study aims to contribute to the growing body of literature documenting responses to short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on doctoral students. This study examines support practices at different levels of the education s... Read More about Towards an ecological systems approach to doctoral student resilience: qualitative evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Book Review: Promoting inclusive systems for migrants in education edited by Paul Downes, Jim Anderson, Alireza Behtoui and Lore Van Praag, London, Routledge, 2024, 224 pp., £133.24 (hard cover), ISBN: 978-1-032-19304-5 (2025)
Journal Article
Kurawa, G. (online). Book Review: Promoting inclusive systems for migrants in education edited by Paul Downes, Jim Anderson, Alireza Behtoui and Lore Van Praag, London, Routledge, 2024, 224 pp., £133.24 (hard cover), ISBN: 978-1-032-19304-5. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2025.2489860

Opening paragraph:
Promoting Inclusive Systems for Migrants in Education, edited by Paul Downes, Jim Anderson, Alireza Behtoui and Lore Van Praag, is an essential and timely addition to the current debate surrounding migrants in education. This edit... Read More about Book Review: Promoting inclusive systems for migrants in education edited by Paul Downes, Jim Anderson, Alireza Behtoui and Lore Van Praag, London, Routledge, 2024, 224 pp., £133.24 (hard cover), ISBN: 978-1-032-19304-5.

Personal reflection: Working in a social, emotional and mental health school in England (2024)
Journal Article
Kurawa, G. (2024). Personal reflection: Working in a social, emotional and mental health school in England. Support for Learning, 39(4), 208-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.12495

This paper draws on my experience working as a special needs support staff member in a special school in the UK for young people with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) issues. The purpose of this paper is to share my understanding of practic... Read More about Personal reflection: Working in a social, emotional and mental health school in England.

Distributed Leadership in the UK Primary School: An Analysis of the Views of a Headteacher (2022)
Book Chapter
Kurawa, G., & Gumel, S. (2022). Distributed Leadership in the UK Primary School: An Analysis of the Views of a Headteacher. In Role of Leaders in Managing Higher Education (43-57). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2055-364120220000048004

Currently, leadership is a recurring theme in the field of education. There is also a number of research that examined school leadership from different perspectives. Some of these studies pay greater attention on school leadership policies while othe... Read More about Distributed Leadership in the UK Primary School: An Analysis of the Views of a Headteacher.

The impact of the Boko Haram conflict on education in Northeast Nigeria (2022)
Book Chapter
Kurawa, G. (2023). The impact of the Boko Haram conflict on education in Northeast Nigeria. In Information Resources Management Association (Ed.), Research Anthology on Modern Violence and Its Impact on Society (1261-1276). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7464-8.ch069

This chapter examines the impact of the Boko Haram conflict on education. Theoretically, conflict tends to be a dominant and elusive concept. Although it is possible to agree that, in practice, conflict has a positive meaning as there is evidence of... Read More about The impact of the Boko Haram conflict on education in Northeast Nigeria.

Education at the intersection of environmental, epistemic and transitional justices: An initial scoping review (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Milligan, L. O., Ajok, P., Balarin, M., Espinal, S., Karki, M., Komakech, D., Kurawa, G., Monge, C., Nuwategeka, E., Paudel, M., Paulson, J., Ranabhat, S., Sarmiento, P., Shields, R., Singh, A., Bahadur Singh, G., & Wilder, R. (2021). Education at the intersection of environmental, epistemic and transitional justices: An initial scoping review

This paper is the final of four theoretical background papers for JustEd – a research project that aims to understand how secondary school learners' knowledge and experiences of environmental, epistemic and transitional justice, in and out of school,... Read More about Education at the intersection of environmental, epistemic and transitional justices: An initial scoping review.

Exploring transitional justice in educational research (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Paulson, J., Espinal, S., Karki, M., Komakech, D., Kurawa, G., & Ranabhat, S. (2021). Exploring transitional justice in educational research

This paper provides an overview of the development of transitional justice as a field of practice and area of scholarly research before exploring the relationships between education and transitional justice. It has been drafted by members of the Just... Read More about Exploring transitional justice in educational research.

Community Learning Centre as a Promising Medium for Promoting Sustainable Development Goal 4: Lifelong Learning (2021)
Book Chapter
Kurawa, G. (2021). Community Learning Centre as a Promising Medium for Promoting Sustainable Development Goal 4: Lifelong Learning. In M. J. Yusha’u, & J. Servaes (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development (171-191). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69770-9_8

United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 aimed at ensuring an inclusive, equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for children, young persons and adults. However, these aims may not be effectively realised, as sh... Read More about Community Learning Centre as a Promising Medium for Promoting Sustainable Development Goal 4: Lifelong Learning.

Study Circle as an Innovative Tool for Promoting Lifelong Learning and Community Empowerment (2020)
Book Chapter
Kurawa, G. (2020). Study Circle as an Innovative Tool for Promoting Lifelong Learning and Community Empowerment. In Teaching and Learning Strategies for Sustainable Development (159-175). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2055-364120200000019014

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 aimed at ensuring an inclusive, equitable, quality education, and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. However, this may not be effectively realized, as this chapter demonstrates, throug... Read More about Study Circle as an Innovative Tool for Promoting Lifelong Learning and Community Empowerment.

Improving the quality of inclusive education in emergencies: What are our methodological choices for engaging children in knowledge generation? (2019)
Journal Article
Kurawa, G. (2019). Improving the quality of inclusive education in emergencies: What are our methodological choices for engaging children in knowledge generation?. NORRAG special issue, 66-69

This paper analyses the role and
involvement of research participants,
especially children with special educational
needs, in the generation of knowledge of
which they are expected to be beneficiaries.
It also examines research participants’ rol... Read More about Improving the quality of inclusive education in emergencies: What are our methodological choices for engaging children in knowledge generation?.

Examining Teachers’ Professional Development for Promoting Inclusive Education in Displacement (2019)
Book Chapter
Kurawa, G. (2019). Examining Teachers’ Professional Development for Promoting Inclusive Education in Displacement. In B. M. Rice (Ed.), Global Perspectives on Inclusive Teacher Education (260-278). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7703-4.ch016

Inclusive education, in most countries affected by an emergency or crisis, is focused on providing access to quality education for all children. Provision of quality education for all children, as discussed in much literature about education, is very... Read More about Examining Teachers’ Professional Development for Promoting Inclusive Education in Displacement.

The Role of Education in the Resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: an Exploratory Discourse on the Plight of the Devastated Communities in the Northeast of Nigeria (2018)
Book Chapter
Musa, A., & Kurawa, G. (2018). The Role of Education in the Resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: an Exploratory Discourse on the Plight of the Devastated Communities in the Northeast of Nigeria. In E. Sengupta, & P. Blessinger (Eds.), Strategies, Policies, and Directions for Refugee Education (21-36). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2055-364120180000013002

The focus of this chapter is to analyze the impacts of the Boko Haram insurgency on education in the northeast of Nigeria. It also aims to examine the effectiveness of the educational interventions in the devastated communities in the northeastern st... Read More about The Role of Education in the Resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: an Exploratory Discourse on the Plight of the Devastated Communities in the Northeast of Nigeria.

Using Drawing Images in Educational Research (2014)
Book Chapter
Kurawa, G., & Azare, G. (2014). Using Drawing Images in Educational Research. In F. Rauch, A. Schuster, T. Stern, M. Pribila, & A. Townsend (Eds.), Promoting Change through Action Research (49-63). SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-803-9_5

Inclusion is a dominant and ‘elusive’ concept, as there are multiple meanings of inclusion, used by different people in different countries and, hence is used in different ways. For example, in the United States, Lipsky and Gartner (1997) see inclusi... Read More about Using Drawing Images in Educational Research.

The views of students and practitioners of how to include all children in learning and regular classroom (2010)
Journal Article
Kurawa, G. (2010). The views of students and practitioners of how to include all children in learning and regular classroom. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1550-1555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.07.324

Inclusion is concerned with reducing barriers to learning and participation for all the students (Ainscow et al., 2006). This paper
reports a small-scale survey conducted with 44 respondents in a primary school in the Northwest of England, UK to gau... Read More about The views of students and practitioners of how to include all children in learning and regular classroom.

Teaching diversity in a primary school: examining teachers classroom strategies for inclusion (2010)
Journal Article
Kurawa, G. (2010). Teaching diversity in a primary school: examining teachers classroom strategies for inclusion. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 5, 1585-1591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.07.329

The aim of the research is to get a feel of the way diverse children can be included in the same classroom and share the same
learning agenda. Again, there is a process of, and there are many strategies for creating an inclusive classroom that the a... Read More about Teaching diversity in a primary school: examining teachers classroom strategies for inclusion.