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ABEL G. ISHUMI

Professor Emeritus, University of Dar es Salaam School of Education
Education:

Phd

Teaching:

Sociology of education; history of education; philosophy of education.

Research:

Wide - covering sociology, history and philosophy of education, with consultancy covering organizational and innovative aspects of University development, change and adaptation. See Nos. 7 and 8 above.

Projects:

He has participated in as many as 28 projects, alone or with others within teams. Only a select five over time:

  •  1998-99. Academic audit. Output: Report on the 1998 UDSM Academic Audit. [With an international panel of seven members, March 1999; in which Ishumi served as Chairman of Panel].

 

  • 2007-08. Formulation of a national policy for science, technology and innovation for Tanzania. National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy. Client: Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology, Dar es Salaam. [With 5 others in a multidisciplinary team under contract with the Bureau for Industrial Cooperation (BICO), University of Dar es Salaam]

 

  • 2008-09. A research ‘Interrogating the link between education and poverty alleviation in Tanzania’. Exploring the Link between Education and Poverty Alleviation in Tanzania: A Search for Missing Enablers in School Curricula. [With 3 others – William A.L. Anangisye, University of Dar es Salaam; Amina N. Kamando, University of Dar es Salaam, & Monica Mbelle, VETA, South-West Zone, AGMI serving as research team leader]. Research and report supported by REPOA.

 

  • 2013. Institutional assessment/evaluation. University of Dar es Salaam’s Institutional Self-Assessment for the Period 2007-2012. (September 2013) [UDSM-commissioned Team evaluation report for submission to the Tanzania Commission for Universities, TCU, for purposes of University re-accreditation. [With 6 others, AGMI as Team Co-Convener].

 

  • 2016. Strategic planning and marketing. Policies, Strategies and Communication Procedures for Promoting and Marketing the University of Dar Es Salaam. June 2015-July 2016. Client: University of Dar es Salaam. [With B. Mutagahywa & L. Mboma]. Submitted in July

Publications:

  • Education and Development in Theory and Practice, East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi & Arusha, 1976, reprinted 1978 & 1981.
  • Community Education and Development, Kenya Literature Bureau, Nairobi (1981);
  • The Urban Jobless in Eastern Africa, Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala (1984);
  • 30 Years of Learning: Educational Development in Eastern and Southern Africa from Independence to 1990. IDRC Books, Ottawa (1994);
  • With S. D. Nyirenda, eds. Philosophy of Education: An Introduction to Concepts, Principles and Practice, Dar es Salaam University Press, Dar es Salaam (2002);
  • With D.J. Mkude, eds. Tracer Studies in a Quest for Academic Improvement. Dar es Salaam University Press Ltd, Dar es Salaam (2004);
  • With W.A.L. Anangisye, Fifty Years of Education in Tanzania, 1961-2011. Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press (Revised edition, 2021).