Brave students are a resource for the country: modalities of student participation in Tigray, Ethiopia

Rafael Mitchell

Brave students are a resource for the country: modalities of student participation in Tigray, Ethiopia

Rafael Mitchell

School of Education

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Government primary schools in Ethiopia offer an example of resource optimisation for the purpose of improving conditions and learning. Through positions of distributed leadership, students share responsibility for the learning and conduct of their peers. Their elected representatives are involved in school-level decision-making through the Parent Student Teacher Association, and all students participate in gim gima (public evaluation sessions) in which they report cases of misconduct amongst staff and students. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of Ketema Primary School, this paper explores these modalities of student participation. In illustrating how a school in a low-income country capitalises on its human resources while providing students with practical experiences of leadership, the paper offers insights on pedagogies for sustainable development.

Original language	English
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 5 Sept 2017
Event	UK Forum for International Education and Training (UKFIET) Conference 2017: Learning and Teaching for Sustainable Development: Curriculum, Cognition and Context - University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Duration: 5 Sept 2017 → 7 Sept 2017

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Conference	UK Forum for International Education and Training (UKFIET) Conference 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Oxford
Period	5/09/17 → 7/09/17

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SoE Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education

Keywords

distributed leadership
Ethiopia
peer learning
student leadership
student participation
student voice
sub-Saharan Africa

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Brave students are a resource for the country: modalities of student participation in Tigray, Ethiopia

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