Mir Islam (MPS Class of 2013) has co-authored an article which has just been published in an edited international volume on education reforms around the world. The paper examines the lessons that BRAC, a Bangladesh-based non-governmental organization (NGO), learned over the course of implementing its para-professional teacher model in Afghanistan and Bangladesh, and their implications for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Education for All (EFA) initiative.
In many EFA signatory nations, the challenge of meeting EFA goals has been shared between government, non-government, and private organizations. NGOs in particular, play critical roles in mitigating the overall number of out-of-school children in countries where the government is unable to meet educational demands on its own. Bangladesh is one example of such a robust partnership between government and NGOs in tackling educational demand at the primary level.
The
article
is
titled
"Achieving
EFA
by
2015:
Lessons
from
BRAC's
Para-Professional
Teacher
Model
in
Afghanistan,"
and
can
be
found
in
Teacher
Reforms
Around
the
World:
Implementation
and
Outcomes,
International
Perspectives
on
Education
and
Society,
Volume
19,
99-119.
Congratulations,
Mir!
For
an
online
version
of
the
article,
please
visit
the Emerald
Insight
publications'
website.