JOEL J. KAYOMBO

Senior Lecturer, Dar Es Salaam University College Of Education

Education:

PhD (Comparative Education), Beijing Normal University, P.R. China.

Teaching:

• Administrative and Organizational Behavior in Education
• Educational Policy and Reforms
• Management of Education and School Leadership
• International and Comparative Education
• Human Resource Development in Education
• Sociology of Education

Research:

• Educational Policy and Reforms
• Governance and Administration in Education
• Educational Planning
• Critical pedagogy (Education) and Politics of Education
• Sociology of Higher Education
• Globalization and Education

Projects:

1. Joel Jonathan Kayombo, Maregesi Machumu, Mabula Nkuba, Consolata Chua, & Rehema Japhet (Co-investigators). (June–July 2020) Investigating the existing educational initiatives for out-of-school girls and teenage mothers in Tanzania mainland. Consultancy funded by TENMET worth Tshs 22,000,000
2. Janeth Kigobe, Karla Van Leeuwen (Promoters), Pol Ghesquière, Nestory Ligembe, Michael Ng’umbi, Joel Jonathan Kayombo, & Jaquelline Amani (Co-Promoters) (01/01/2020 - 31/12/2021). A capacity building teacher training to enhance parental involvement in primary education as a key factor in child literacy. Project funded by VLIR-UOS worth 89,960 Euro. More information can be accessed at https://www.vliruos.be/en/projects/project/22?pid=4485
3. Joel Jonathan Kayombo (Principal Investigator), Haruni Magosho and Hamisi Mfaume (Co-investigators) (2016-2017). Doctoral Education in Commonwealth Africa (DECA): Tanzania country case. Funded by the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF) of the Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia) worth USD 15,000

Publications:

1. Kayombo, J.J and Misiaszek, L.I. (forthcoming, 2020). “A young dean in a neoliberal Tanzanian university: a dialogical autoethnography.” In Taylor, Yvette, Maddie Breeze, and Michelle Addison, The Palgrave Handbook of ‘Imposter Syndrome’ in Higher Education. London: Palgrave.
2. Kavenuke, P.S, Kinyota, M. & Kayombo J.J. (2020). The Critical Thinking Skills of Prospective Teachers: Investigating their systematicity, self-confidence and skepticism. Thinking Skills and Creativity, Volume 37
3. Kayombo, J.J. (2019). Becoming, doing, being and belonging into academics: Career trajectories of early-career academics at the University of Dar es Salaam, Papers in Education and Development, 37(2)
4. Msangi, S.E & Kayombo J.J (2019) Politics of Emotions in Tanzania: Analysing Global Citizenship Education (GCE) through Secular and Religious Lens. In Lauren Ila Misiaszek (Ed.) Exploring the Complexities in Global Citizenship Education Hard Spaces, Methodologies, and Ethics [Book Series: Critical Global Citizenship Education: Globalization and the Politics of Equity and Inclusion (Carlos Alberto Torres, Series Ed.)], New York: Routledge.
5. Kayombo. J.J & Kavenuke .P.S. (2018). Establishing Comparative Education Society in Tanzania: Opportunities and Prospects. World Voices Nexus: The WCCES Chronicle. Vol. 2 (1)