Abstract

The environment for educational research in the southern African nations of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland is a particularly precarious one. Funds are scarce and researchers work in isolation, in small and generally weak institutions. They may be well-trained in an academic sense, but have few opportunities to gain field experience and this limits their potential contribution to development. This project will provide research grants, to be awarded in annual competitions, to senior researchers in independent work and junior researchers in studies supervised by their more experienced colleagues. Research to be undertaken will focus on specific problems confronting the education systems of the three participating countries; will be field oriented; and will encourage collaboration among researchers with different levels of experience and professional status.

Post-Project Summary

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