The Neag Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development at UConn’s Neag School of Education will co-host a talk highlighting international research focused on identifying gifted children in the poorest areas of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa – and nurturing their talents in order to provide communities with a voice that will inspire philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to develop new opportunities for aid allocation and business ideas.
Two visiting experts from Newcastle University in the United Kingdom will speak about their research work, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the U.K.’s largest organization for funding research on economic and social issues.
Serving as fellow co-hosts for this event are UConn’s Center for Education Policy Analysis, the Office of the Dean at the Neag School, and the Office of Global Affairs.
When: Thursday, May 21, 2015, 1:30-2:30 p.m., with question-and-answer session to follow.
Where: Gentry Building, Room 144, UConn Storrs Campus
Who:
Pauline Dixon is a professor of international development and education at Newcastle University in Tyne, England. She also serves as the research director of the university’s E.G. West Centre and degree program director of the master’s in international development and education. She lectures in economics, education policy, and quantitative methods, and her research in India, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, China, and Tanzania investigates education for the poorest living in slums and shanty towns. Watch her TEDx talk at http://ow.ly/MRXhf.
Steve Humble is a researcher and lecturer at Newcastle University. He previously served as the senior regional coordinator for the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM). His research focuses on talented children in low-income areas of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and their possible contribution to the eradication of poverty.