Why this sub-theme matters?
Educational planning is critical to achieving education systems that effectively promote and sustain equitable improvements in teaching and learning. Multiple perspectives need to come together, and synergies created. Curricula, teacher recruitment, teacher development, assessment, support and monitoring, and financing require a common vision and to link and complement each other. The drive for scale and the drive for equity need to work together and embrace local adaptations that are specific to the needs and contexts of vulnerable communities. Crucially, it needs to be understood who is driving the planning agenda and to engage people at all levels of the system. This sub-theme wishes to explore these complexities and highlight both examples of good practice and surface the issues that are being grappled with
What are we looking forward to in the submission?
We are particularly looking forward to research and thought pieces that explore:
In informal and formal education programme(s) and settings, consideration of how the programme(s) and system fit to the lives of learners, rather than expecting the lives of learners to fit to them
In school level planning, which factors drive and support school action plans that have clear specific goals for teaching and learning, are relevant to the school’s learners and context, are owned by the school community, and create time, space and agency for teachers to act
Innovative examples of inclusive and / or demand-led planning at District or more local levels of the system, which embrace local needs and contexts within national or sub-national frameworks
Literature reviews and analyses of Education Sector Plan(s), which highlight who is engaged and who influences the development of the Plan, the vision for teaching and learning, the strategies for achieving the vision and how these articulate into implementation plans
How data and evidence are used in developing education plans at all levels of the system; what are the sources and who is involved in generating these data and evidence, to what extent are these global, national or local
How education plans at all levels of the system and their implementation are researched, monitored and evaluated; what metrices and indicators are used, how are equity and social justice lens incorporated and to what extent are these processes generating new evidence
Professor Yaw Ankomah and Claire Hedges
Submit your abstract by Monday, 29th May 2023 through https://www.icerdaafrica.org/abstract-submission