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Professor Tirussew Teferra

Professor Tirussew Teferra is Dean of College of Education at Addis Ababa University. He has been engaged in research, teaching for the last 25 years. Professor Tirussew assumed different academic positions as Director of Institute of Educational Research, Head Department of Psychology and Graduate Program Coordinator. He was the President of the Ethiopian Psychologists’ Association in the year 2000-2004. Professor Tirussew won the 2003-2004 Senior Fulbright Research Program Award and was affiliated with the School of Education at Indiana University. Currently, in addition to his Deanship, he is also serving as UNESCO-National Coordinator for Teacher Training Initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Professor Tirussew is the author and co-author of several articles in scientific journals and different educational manuals. Professor Tirussew is serving as local and international journals as Regional Consulting Editor, African Journal of Special Needs Education,Uganda; Editor, Journal of Education for Development, College of Education, Addis Ababa University Associate Editor, Journal of Psychology in Africa, South Afica; Advisroy Board d Member, East African Journal of Sciences, University of Almaya; Editor, Ethiopian Journal of Education, Advisory Board Member, The Ethiopian Journal of Higher Edycation, Insititute of Educational Research, Addis Ababa University and Advisory Board Member, Journal of Ethiopian Development, West Michigan University, USA and Advisory Board Member East African Journal of Sciences, Alamaya University, Ethiopia

Professor Tirussew has undertaken several joint and individual research and training consultancies to mention few are : Early Childhood Care and Education in Ethiopia, UNICEF; Integrating Disability into the FTI Process and National Education Plan in Ethiopia , UK World Vision; State of Child Sexual Abuse in ‘Ada’a Woreda’, Save the Children Norway; Child Labor and Early Childhood Development Experience in Ethiopia, World Bank; Early Childhood Care and Development Interventions in Ethiopia, World Bank; Situation of Child Labor in the Informal Sector in Ethiopia, African Network for Prevention and Protection of Child Abuse and Neglect; Access and Supply of Educational Facilities in Ethiopia, World Bank; Regional Consultant, Early Childhood Education Project Evaluation Zimbabwe.

Professor David Bridges

Professor David Bridges is Director of the Von Hugel Institute, St Edmunds College Cambridge and Professorial Fellow at the University of East Anglia , where he was previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University and Dean of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning. Between 2000 and 2006 he was Director of the Association of Universities in the East of England.

Professor Bridges is Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain and a member of the Councils of both the British and European Educational Research Associations. He was recently elected a foreign member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. He combines has extensive experience of research and evaluation work for local, regional and national government bodies as well as consultancy work for international development organisations in Ethiopia , Iran , Vietnam , Guyana , Belize and Ghana .

His publications include Developing Teachers Professionally (ed with Kerry), Education and the Market Place (ed with McLaughlin) and Consorting and Collaborating in the Education Market Place (ed with Husbands). In 1997 he published an important collection of papers from across the world in Routledge's New International Library of Philosophy of Education under the title Education, Autonomy and Democratic Citizenship: philosophy in a changing world. He has directed a large number of empirically based research projects (recently with a particular focus on higher education) as well as writing in philosophy of education. He has recently combined these interests in a number of publications on the philosophy of educational research. These include his own book on ‘Fiction written under oath?’ Essays in Philosophy and educational research (Kluwer 2003), a collection of essays on published Ethics in Educational Research (Blackwell 2002) which he edited with Mike McNamee and another on the Philosophy and Methodology of Educational Research (Blackwell 2007) which he has edited with Richard Smith.

He has been a regular visitor to Ethiopia – first through a link with Kotebe College and subsequently with Addis Ababa University (as well as on other assignments) – for the last 21 years. He edited with Dr Marew Zewdie a collection of essays on Secondary Teacher Education in Ethiopia (British Council/ AAU/ UEA 2000) and has written with Amare Asgedom ‘From “deep knowledge” to “the light of reason”: sources for philosophy of education in Ethiopia’ (Comparative Education: 40 no 4: November 2004)

Dr Barbara Ridley

Dr Barbara Ridley is Lecturer in Education at the University of East Anglia and a Research Associate with the Von Hugel Institute, St Edmunds College, Cambridge . Her interests include the use of drama and other active approaches to teaching and learning both in mother tongue and ELT classrooms. She is an experienced drama teacher, an examiner, and in the UK is currently working with the Mantle of the Expert approach to education. She has also worked with and researched educational provision for children who have been excluded from school or refuse to attend.

Her main role is as Director of UEA’s Doctoral Programme in Hong Kong but her overseas work also includes teacher development programmes in Germany and Malawi . Dr Ridley has made regular visits to Ethiopia over the last eleven years through links with AAU and Jimma Teachers College . As well as work under the British Council’s Higher Education Links Programme, for the last four years she has been Co-director of a Capacity Building Doctoral Programme at AAU. She has contributed to a collection of essays entitled Secondary Teacher Education in Ethiopia (British Council/ AAU/ UEA 2000) and is currently writing about the creative arts in education in Ethiopia .