We are developing a set of joint research projects between faculty and students at Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar Universities in Ethiopia, and faculty and students in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. We are attempting to explore broadly the same research questions in both the Ethiopian and Canadian contexts, thus enabling a reciprocal exchange about research methodologies and outcomes across the national contexts. Our initial projects will have two foci: changes in the lives of youth produced by new digital media; and linguistic diversity in local school communities. In both, we are interested in implications of the findings for students’ learning in and out of school.

Sponsors:

We thank the following sponsors for providing funding and/or logistical support:

Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia
Office of Learning Technology, University of British Columbia
Teacher Education Office, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia