International Academic Partnership in Pakistan September 15, 2006
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International Academic Partnership in Pakistan
Elisabeth E. Tully, Director of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library at Phillips Academy, traveled to Karachi, Pakistan this summer to support the development of libraries in four schools in the Aga Kahn Educational Network. These schools serve pupils from Pre-K to 12th grade. Elisabeth spent two weeks in Karachi, during which she led a workshop for thirty librarians, teachers, and principals on the topic of “Libraries as Learning Hub” and was a featured speaker at the first-ever national conference on the importance of school libraries.
Elisabeth created a blog to support the workshop and to foster continuing communication between librarians at Andover and those at the target schools in Karachi.
The blog, “Collaboratory” is available here: www.andoverblog.typepad.com/collaboratory..
The picture is of some of the workshop participants, with the OWH Library mascot, Oliver the OWL, who accompanied Elisabeth on the trip.
The consultancy was sponsored by the International Academic Partnership, an organization which promotes global education and student-centered teaching at participating schools. The program focuses on professional development for teachers and curricular innovation at all affiliated institutions. Since its founding in 1993, the IAP has linked schools in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America to create a living laboratory for the study of issues related to developing nations and to provide a forum for the dissemination of methods of cooperative teaching and learning.
The members of the IAP are Aga Khan Education Service, Phillips Academy, the Institute for Educational Development of Aga Khan University, and Schule Schloss Salem.
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The Center for International Education Student September 15, 2006
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Amina Davlatshoeva
Greetings and Salam! I was born in Pamir, which is famous for its name “The Roof of the World”. Pamir is centred in the Tajikistan region of Gorno Badakshan Autonomous Oblast. My background is diverse. I earned my Nursing degree and then worked in acardiology hospital as a nurse. I then applied for Medical Biology degree in Khorog State University in Tajikistan. My Bachelor degree in Medical Biology helped me to understand the whole world of science and biology in high mountainous areas. My interest did not stop at that level and I traveled to Canada, to improve my English skills and also to learn business administrations skills..
Working and witnessing a reforming education system in Tajikistan, I developed a profound interest in innovative educational methods and scientific research approaches applied to teaching methodologies. I then applied to do a masters degree in Education at The Aga Khan University – Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED). In recognition of my previous work in Central Asia, I was awarded an AKU-IED studentship to do my degree in Pakistan. During my years of study and afterwards my key areas of interest were the role of projects in educational growth, planning and policy development for educational institutions and governments, and the management and growth of educational institutions. During my studies, I undertook major projects addressing the challenges confronted by the developing educational systems in Asian-subcontinent.
After graduation, I found work in Afghanistan. From 2004 I worked with The Aga Khan Education Services, Afghanistan (AKES, A) as an Education Programme Coordinator for Tutorial Assistance Program which helped children needing tutorial assistance to improve their subject knowledge of class 1-IX in three regions of Afghanistan. In 2005 I joined “Learning for life” project, Kabul, Afghanistan as Technical Advisor to Bridging program in the Instructional design department. The project was overall administered by CIE/UMass. ” Learning for life” was a health focused, accelerated adult literacy project that prepared women and older girls in rural areas of 12 provinces.
Having studied and worked in Tajikistan, Pakistan, Canada and enormous and unforgettable experience in Afghanistan and presently moved to study at CIE, I find myself in a unique position to contribute to the future of my country and the whole Central Asian region. My career goal is to become an internationally recognized resource person on International Education with specificalization in policy development, and monitoring and evaluation who can contribute the development of education sectors in the Central Asian and Sub-Asian region.
