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NETREED Conference 5 - 7 December 2005



Evaluation of Education, on whose Terms?

The Programme for 2005 is not completed Monday 8 December 2003: 09.00: Departure by bus from the University of Oslo, Helga Engs House, Sem Sælandsvei 7 10.00: Departure by bus from Gardermoen airport (arrival hall, 1. floor) 13.00: Arrival at Rainbow Gausdal høifjellshotel 13.15: Lunch 14.30: Welcome and introductory remarks by Professor Dr. Birgit Brock-Utne, Project Leader for NETREED 15.00: Prof. Iffat Farah (Aga Khan University, Pakistan): Creating "New" Partnerships for Research in Developing Countries. Chair: Birgit Brock-Utne 15.45: Plenary discussion 16.30: Coffee/tea 17.00 - 17.45: Parallel sessions/paper presentations Group 1 Language Chair: Birgit Brock-Utne Group 2 Culture and Gender Chair: Nurul Shekh Group 3 Higher Education Chair: Betsy Heen Group 4 Research Methods Chair: Kristin Tornes Halla Holmarsdottir Literacy in Two Languages? Implementing language policy in a post-colonial context Elin Skaar Why girls leave primary school before having passed the First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC)and why many of them are never enrolled at school. A study from three schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon. Lihong Huang Students' socio-economic status in higher education in Southwest China Abdul Quddus Designing social research: A methodological note of the study of Professionalization of schoolteachers in Bangladesh 19.30: Dinner 21.00: Cultural event Tuesday 9 December 07.00-09.00: Breakfast 09.00: Parallel sessions/paper presentations Group 1 Language Chair: Birgit Brock-Utne Group 2 Culture and Gender Chair: Robert Smith Group 3 Higher Education Chair: Betsy Heen Group 4 Research Methods Chair: Kristin Tornes Birgit Brock-Utne "But English is the language of science and technology" - the language of instruction in Africa - with a special look at Tanzania Halima Mohammed Mwinsheikne Surmounting the Language Barrier: An In-depth study of Tanzania Secondary School Science Teachers' Initiatives in Coping with the English/Kiswahili Dilemma in the Teaching/Learning Process Nurul Shekh Educating Women Through NGO Programmes: Contradictions of Culture and Gender in Rural Bangladesh Pia Karlsson & Amir Mansory Islamic and Modern Education in Afghanistan - Conflictual or Complementary? Hans Erik Stolten Historians and History Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Revealing Divergence or Advocating Nation Building Ann Merete Otterstad & Hans Jørgen Braathe Dilemmas, challenges and contradictions in institutional co operation work - Teacher Education in Bangladesh Lucky Tshireletso Technologies of research and a self actualizationof the research subject in the south. Some empirical and ethical challenges. Ingunn K. Mork Bjørndal If you don't do it our way, forget it! Reflections on Doing Research on Education and Context in Eritrea 10.30: Coffee/tea 11.00: DEBATE on Research and Evaluation in Education and Development - Ethical Issues and Dilemmas. Chair: Robert Smith, Oslo University College The Researcher The Evaluator User of Service Prof. Birgit Brock-Utne. Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo Prof. Kristin Tornes Molde University College/Ministry of Education and Research Betsy Heen NORAD 11.45 Discussion 13.00: Lunch 15.00: Prof. Frode Storås (Bergen Museum, UiB). Anthropology and Interactive Multimedia Chair: Betsy Heen, NORAD 15.45: Plenary discussion 16.30: Coffee/tea 17.00 - 18.30: Rolf Scott SOT Film A/S. Workshop for group A on Visual Methods for use in Research 19.30: Conference dinner Wednesday 10 December 07.00-09.00: Breakfast 09.00 - 10.30: Rolf Scott SOT Film A/S. Workshop for group B, on Visual Methods for use in Research 10.30: Parallel sessions/paper presentations Group 1 Language Chair: Birgit Brock-Utne Group 2 Culture and Gender Chair: Nurul Shekh Group 3 Higher Education Chair: Betsy Heen Workshop for group C Eurica Sigcau Nompucuko Educational implications of non-standard varieties of Xhosa M.Kiwako Okuma-Nyström Children's Socialization in the Changing Society: Parents' Views in Two Gambian Villages Gunnar Guddal Michelsen From Governmental Steering towards a New Globality within African Higher Education: The Case of Senegal Rolf Scott Workshop on Visual Methods for use in Research 12.00: Check out time 12.30: Concluding remarks by Dr. M.Nurul Shekh Evaluation and feedback 13.00: Lunch 14.15: Departure from Gausdal.

Last Updated: 4 Decemver 2003

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Editors: NETREED, g.b.gudmundsdottir@ped.uio.no
Document created: 03.07.2003