Innovative models to improve recruitment and professional learning of female teachers in low income fragile contexts

• In Event: Roundtable Session (Wednesday II)

Group Submission Type: Refereed Round-Table Session

Proposal

Opportunities for young women to progress towards productive livelihoods, including in teaching, are scarce in marginalised contexts. Similarly, career pathways for women teachers are often highly limited. But there is an acknowledged shortage of female teachers. The innovative approaches in this roundtable aim to empower female educators at different stages of the teacher lifecyle - recruitment, initial preparation, in-service professional development, in rural contexts in Afghanistan, Mozambique, and Sierra Leone. The purpose of this session is to provoke candid discussion on how to increase the number of qualified agentive female teachers and explore the implications of learning from these programmes for wider system change.

Sub Unit

• SIG: Teacher Education and the Teaching Profession

Chair

• Amy Parker, Relief International

Individual Presentations

• Recruiting, preparing and developing female teachers in Sierra Leone - Freda Wolfenden, The Open University, UK; Martin Canter, Plan International

• Addressing the lack of qualified female teachers in rural Afghanistan - Mumtaza Abdurazzakova, Save the Children

• Professional support for female teachers in rural fragile contexts - Emily Echessa, Save the Children

• Teacher Training for the 21st Century - Holly Donzetta Hutton, PhD Candidate FIU/ High School English Teacher