Seminar: Dr Emma Carter Discusses “Insights from the Leaders in Teaching project in Rwanda”
Dr Emma Carter talked about how her research has shed light on how participants’ voices have enabled a localised understanding of teaching quality in Rwanda, at the Brown-Bag Seminar hosted by AERC on 1 May 2024.
Insights from the Leaders in Teaching project in Rwanda
Emma's revealed her passion for her work during this talk, hosted by the Assessment and Evaluation Research Centre, where she shared an overview of the Leaders in Teaching project, which was funded by the Mastercard Foundation in 2018, with the aim to support teachers in the delivery of high-quality and relevant STEM education in Rwanda. Learnings from the qualitative phase of the project, as conducted by the REAL Centre at the University of Cambridge and Laterite Rwanda, were highlighted, particularly the use of teacher and student voices. This talk shed light on how participants’ voices have enabled a localised understanding of teaching quality in Rwanda, a process that has been integral to all stages of the research process, from instrument design to the interpretation of key findings which have helped inform policy implications. Links with this research and the McKenzie Research Fellowship project were shared.
Biography
Emma recently commenced her role as a McKenzie Research Fellow. Her project, which is supported by Professor Therese Hopfenbeck and Associate Professor Joshua McGrane at the Assessment and Evaluation Research Centre (AERC) at the Faculty of Education, will be centred on understanding relationships between structural and process quality in secondary education within developing countries in the Asia Pacific region. Emma has previously worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge where she was involved in several projects including the Mastercard Foundation’s Leaders in Teaching initiative in Rwanda and Complementary Basic Education in Ghana. Emma has also worked as a consultant at the Education Global Practice at the World Bank, where she has co-led the development of Teach Secondary classroom observation instrument.