Research Tools: New Database Puts African Education Research at the Heart of Policy and Practice

From The Conversation (article written by researchers at University of Oxford):

There is growing recognition of the quality of research in developing countries and its importance for policy and practice.
One area where this applies is education. African research is often “overlooked and undervalued”, with knowledge and expertise from the continent neglected in favour of research and researchers from elsewhere. Yet the insights of researchers with firsthand experience of social, cultural and material issues that affect schooling in Africa are extremely valuable.

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To increase the visibility and impact of African education research, we partnered with the charity Education Sub-Saharan Africa to create the African Education Research Database. This is a curated collection of peer-reviewed studies undertaken by researchers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Since work began on the project a year ago, around 2,500 studies have been catalogued in the online database. Studies can be browsed by country and topic.

Read the Complete Article (645 words)
Another New Resource:  The Center for Open Science and AfricArXiv Launch Preprint Service (June 25, 2018)

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