Event type:

In person

Date & time:

08 Jan 2020, 17:30 – 19:30

Mind the gap – introducing NISSEM Global Briefs

CEID welcomes Matthew Jukes, Margaret Sinclair & Andy Smart to present in the Education in Conflict and Emergencies Seminar Series.

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Mind the gap – introducing NISSEM Global Briefs

Matthew Jukes

Matthew is an expert in evaluation, international education, and child development. He has two decades of academic and professional experience in evaluating education projects, particularly in early-grade literacy interventions and the promotion of learning through better health.

His research addresses culturally relevant approaches to the assessment of social and emotional competencies in Tanzania, improving pedagogy through an understanding of the cultural basis of teacher-child interactions, frameworks to improve evidence-based decision-making and methods to set reading proficiency benchmarks.

Margaret Sinclair

Margaret Sinclair is a consultant on education in emergencies, conflict-sensitive education policies, learning to live together and SDG Target 4.7. She is an independent consultant with a record of contribution to the establishment of the field of education in emergencies.

Margaret now has a particular interest in conflict-sensitive education policies and teaching of relevant SDG Target 4.7 themes, especially the steps of conflict resolution.

Andy Smart

Andy is an education and publishing consultant with a background in teaching and educational and children’s publishing. He specialises in textbook policy, planning and development as well as in English and Arabic-medium primary curriculum, children’s reading and children’s books.

He has drafted national textbook policies and carried out a pan-Asia textbook policy study for the Asian Development Bank. He is also a co-convener of NISSEM and co-editor of NISSEM Global Briefs.

Further information

Ticketing

Pre-booking essential

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Tejendra Pherali

t.pherali@ucl.ac.uk