Knowledge creation, adaptation and dissemination: Partnerships, Processes and Products

• In Event: South-South partnerships in STEM teacher education - Knowledge creation, adaptation and dissemination

Proposal

The project CL4STEM is designed and implemented by four partnering institutions. The partnership is structured on principles of autonomy and mutual responsibility. The partnering GPE countries in this project have an urgent need to address STEM learning with inclusive pedagogic principles during initial teacher preparation and to motivate and support teachers to take active pedagogies into STEM classrooms, thereby addressing inclusion and equity. They have the untapped potential to use mobile technology to network teachers in professional learning communities. The project aims at developing the capacity of middle and secondary teachers in Mathematics and Science (Newly Qualified Teachers (NQT) and with relevance to Initial Teacher Education Programmes ITE). It involves the use of curated and adapted high quality locally relevant, interactive OERs by means of building the capacity of the faculty of education to select, curate and adapt OERs and integrate these into the curriculum to enable STEM teachers to develop pedagogic content knowledge and strategies for inclusion.
Our talk will focus on how the partnership emerged, the opportunities and challenges faced by the partners in the process of creating knowledge and artefacts for the project, and the processes that emerged from the partnership for creating, adapting and disseminating knowledge, based on the local contexts and resource availability, and a reflection on the nature of products created during the project, the tensions and affordances that collaboration across different contexts and organisational structures produced. Data for the talk will be based on transcripts and notes of internal meetings, interviews with the team leads and participating teacher educators and critical self-reflections of the speakers.

Author

• Vikas Maniar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai