QR - GCRF - PPF12 - Understanding the transformational potential of Community Engagement Projects within a South African educational landscape Dec 1, 2019 - Nov 30, 2020
South Africa is the most unequal country in the world (Gini Index, 2019; Palma Ratio, 2019; World Bank, 2019), operating in great complexity resulting from an apartheid legacy. Such inequality, and the resulting poverty and disadvantage cannot be add...
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Projects (6)
Young Citizens for Change: developing environmental activism in young people through creative citizen inquiry May 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2025
ERASMUS Strategic Partnerships for Creativity: Youth
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Young Citizens for Change: developing environmental activism in young people through creative citizen inquiry
Project summary:
The majority of young people feel th...
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Youth-led Adaptation for climate change challenges in Vietnam: social action, inter-generational and inter-cultural learning Mar 20, 2020 - Jan 31, 2022
The Challenge
Rising sea levels and the increased intensity and magnitude of precipitation linked to climate change, place the Red River Catchment in Northern Vietnam on the front line of climate emergency. Whilst intense rains, localised flooding...
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developing innovation and research capacity in the circular economy through citizen inquiry methodologies Dec 1, 2020 - Dec 31, 2021
QR-GCRF RF 06 2019 Identifying Cambodian School Teachers’ Needs to Improve their Performance: Stakeholders’ views on teachers’ psychological well-being as a way to improve teachers’ performance. Jul 15, 2019 - Jul 21, 2019
Cambodia’s education system started virtually from zero in 1979 after the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime. This
regime killed least 1.7 million people out of seven million and 75%-80% of Cambodia’s teachers died or fled (Tan &
N.G., 2012). The...
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GCRF 2019 PPF17: Enabling scalability of the reading to learn methodology in STEM education using video observations in South African township schools Feb 1, 2019 - Jul 31, 2019
This project will develop the capacity of teachers working in underprivileged township schools in Johannesburg, to teach students how to read for the purpose of learning and understanding ‘threshold concepts’ those concepts that are core to a subject...
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