A BOOKLET ON TEACHER PROFESSIONAL NORMS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH WAS RELEASED, FEATURING A CONTRIBUTION BY PROF. MELANIE EHREN

"Purpose, Pressures, and Possibilities: Conversations About Teacher Professional Norms in the Global South" is the title of a recently released booklet, which brings together 14 interviews with 28 academics and practitioners. The interviews aim to explore the complex norms that influence the teaching profession in the Global South.  

As Lant Pritchett, the RISE Research Director at the Blavatnik School of Government-University of Oxford, writes in the foreword: 'the future of humanity depends on accelerating learning progress in the developing world and that in turn almost certainly will require a massive shift in teacher norms. This book from introduction to the body of interviews to the synthesis essays is a great place to start the thinking about how that might just happen'. 

The booklet features an interview with Melanie Ehren, a Professor in Educational Governance and the Director of LEARN! and Michael Woolcock, who is the Lead Social Scientist in the World Bank’s Development Research Group and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Together, they discuss how norms among teachers affect their practice and behavior. The entirety of the conversation can be found in Chapter 10 of the publication, which is titled 'On varied perceptions, gradual change, and how norms are nested in different levels of the system.' 

The booklet was released as a publication of the RISE consortium.

You can access the PDF version of the booklet via this link.