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Prof Keith Lewin

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Post:Professor of Education
Location:Arts E E314
Email:K.M.Lewin@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:8970
UK:(01273) 678970
International:+44 1273 678970

Biography

Director of CIE, Professor in International Education and Development. Director of Centre for International Education (CIE). Specialist in educational planning, economics and finance of education, teacher education, science and technology education policy in developing countries and educational aid and project evaluation. Extensive experience in South/South East Asia, China, and southern Africa. Research and development projects on educational planning and finance for governments in Africa and Asia and for a range of development agencies including DFID, the World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, the Asian Development Bank and the GTZ. Director of the DFID supported Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity (CREATE).

Graduate student at Manchester and the Institute of Development Studies. Founding Director of the International Master's programme at Sussex. 35 years experience in education and development in Sub-Saharan Africa and South, South East and East Asia. Co-convenor of roundtables on financing education at both the Jomtein and Dakar EFA Conferences. Past President of the British Association for International and Comparative Education and Hororary Professor at Beijing Normal and Hangzhou Universities, China.

Research

Research funding of over £4 million in the recent past. Recent projects include:


Other projects include: Access to Education in Asia (ADB; IIEP/UNICEF) - A regional analysis of educational development issues for the Emerging Asia study of the ADB; Implementing Educational Reform in China (UNICEF/IIEP); Implementing Educational Reform in Developing Countries - Multi Country Case Studies from Africa and Asia focusing on curriculum development; The Mpumalanga Primary Schools Initiative - Link institute co-ordinator for the first DFID supported basic education project in South Africa; The Development of Assessment for Primary Science and Agriculture - An African regional programme to improve assessment in Anglophone countries (DSE/GTZ); Costing and Finance of Education in Mauritius. Click on the link to view Keith's Professorial lecture: 'Knowledge Matters for Development':  http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/documents/knowledge_matters_for_development.pdf

Publications

Author of 18 books and over 100 journal articles, book chapters and research monographs. These include:

Selected Books

  • 2008 Lewin K M Strategies for Sustainable Financing of Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. Secondary Education in Africa Programme. World Bank, Working Paper Number 136, Africa Human Development Series, Washington DC 170pp
  • 2005 Lewin K M, Sayed  Y Non State Secondary Schooling in Sub Saharan Africa?
    Exploring the Evidence in South Africa and Malawi.  DFID, London 200pp.
  • 2003 Lewin K M, Samuel M, Sayed Y (eds)  Changing Patterns of Teacher Education in South Africa: Policy Practice and Prospects. Heinemann. pp300
  • 2003 Kunje D, Lewin K M and Stuart J S Teacher Education in Malawi: Insights into Practice and Policy DFID Research Series 49c  pp 141 ISBN
  • 2001 Lewin K M, Caillods F Financing Secondary Education in Developing Countries; Strategies for Sustainable Growth. International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris. 370pp
  • 1997 Caillods F, Gottelmann-Duret, Lewin K M Science Education and Development; Planning and Policy Issues at Secondary Level. Pergamon/International Institute of Educational Planning, Paris. 242pp
  • 1996 Lewin K M, with Stuart J S (eds) Educational Innovation in Developing Countries; Case Studies of Change Makers.  MacMillan. 325pp.
  • 1994 Maimunah S Lewin K M (eds), Insights into Science Education; Planning and Policy Priorities in Malaysia. International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris 265pp
  • 1994 Lewin K M, Little A W, Xu Hui, Zheng Ji Wei,  Educational Innovation in China; Tracing the Impact of the 1985 Reforms. Longman 315pp.
  • 1993 Colclough C. with Lewin K M, Educating All the Children; Strategies for Primary Education in Developing Countries. Oxford University Press. 328pp.
  • 1990 Vulliamy G, Lewin K M, Stephens D. Doing Educational Research in Developing Countries: Qualitative Strategies.  Falmer Press. 265pp
  • 1987 Lewin K M Education in Austerity; Options for Planners.  Fundamentals of Educational Planning Series, International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris 130pp


Selected Articles

  • Lewin K M Sabates R Who Gets What? Is Improved Access to Basic Education Pro-Poor in Sub Saharan Africa? Under Review for International Journal of Education and Development 2010
  • Lewin K M 2009 Changing Patterns of Access to Education in Sub-Saharan Africa  in Lewin K M and Akyeampong K (eds) Access to Education in Sub Saharan Africa: Special Issues  Comparative Education Vol 45 No 2
  • Lewin K M 2007 Diversity in Convergence: Access to Education for All; Presidential Address, BAICE Belfast September 2006 published in Compare; Volume 37, Number 5, October 2007 , pp. 577-599(23)
  • 2006, Lewin K M Planning for Secondary Expansion in Sub Saharan Africa - Key Issues for Sustainable Growth in Access. Perspectives in Education Vol 24(2), June 2006
  • 2005, Lewin K M Taking Targets to Task: Planning Post Primary Education International Journal of Education and Development Volume 25, Issue 4, July 2005, Pages 408-422 
  • 2003 Lewin K M Insights into the Policy and Practice of Teacher Education in Low Income  Countries: The Multi Site Teacher Education Research Project. Special Issue. British Education Research Journal,  Vol 29, No 5 691-707 October 2003  
  • 2002 Lewin K M The Costs of Supply and Demand for Teacher Education: Dilemmas for Development. Double Issue of the International Journal of Education and Development edited by Lewin K M and Stuart JS March 2003 221-243 
  • 2000 Lewin K and Dunne M, Policy and Practice in the Assessment of Primary Science in Anglophone Africa. Journal of Assessment in Education 7:3 2000 pp379-399
  • 2000 Lewin K M New Technologies for Knowledge Acquisition and Use in Developing Countries Compare 30:3 2000 pp313-323 
  • 1998 Lewin K M Education and Development in Asia: Issues in Planning, Policy and Finance. Asian Development Review 15:1 
  • 1997 Lewin K M The Sea of Items Returns to China; Backwash, Selection, and the Diploma Disease Revisited. Journal of Assessment in Education Vol4:1 pp25 
  • 1995 Lewin K M "Development Policy and Science Education in South Africa; Reflections on Post-Fordism and Praxis". Comparative Education 31:2  203-222 
    1994 Lewin K M British Bi-Lateral Assistance to Education: How Much, To Whom and Why? International Journal of Educational Development Vol 14(2):1-18 
  • 1993 Lewin K M  "Planning Policy on Science Education in Developing Countries; A Research Agenda". International Journal of Science Education. Vol 15 No 1 1-17.
  • 1990 Lewin K M  "International Perspectives on Science Education, Food for Thought".  Studies in Science Education, Vol 18. 1-23 
  • 1989 Lewin K M and Xu Hui "Rethinking Revolution; Reflections on China's 1985 Educational Reforms" Comparative Education, Vol 25, No1 7-17 
  • 1988  Lewin K M "The Organisational Response to Parsimony". Compare Vol 18 No1 April. 11-20. 
  • 1987 Lewin K M "Science Education in China; Transformation and Change in the 1980's". Comparative Education Review, Vol 32, No 2. 419-441.  
  • 1985 Colclough C L, Lewin K M, and Oxenham J C P  "Donor Agency Support for Primary Education". International Journal of Educational Development, Vol 3 No 1. 1-11. 
  • 1985 Lewin K M Quality in Question; A New Agenda for Curriculum Reform in Developing Countries. Comparative Education, Vol 21, No 2. 117-133 


Selected Chapters in Books

  • 2006 Lewin K M The Limits to Growth of Non-Government Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa in Walford G and Srivastava P 'Private Schools in Developing Countries' published by Symposium Books, 2006 
  • Lewin K M, 2005, Seeking Secondary Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa: Four Fallacies, Four Foresights and Four Freedoms in King K (ed) Reintegrating Education, Skills and Work in Africa: towards informal or Knowlede Economies? Towards Autoonomy or Dependency in Development? 2005, ISBN 0-9545183-2-2 
  • 2005 Lewin K M Costs and Finance of Multigrade - How Do the Books Balance? in Little A W (ed) Education for All; The Challenge of Mulitgrade Teaching Springer, Dordrecht, Netherleands
  • 2003 Lewin K M, Samuel M, Sayed Y An International Perspective on Teacher Education Across the MUSTER Countries Ch 21 in Lewin K M, Samuel M, Sayed Y  Changing Patterns of Teacher Education in South Africa: Policy Practice and Prospects. Heinemann. Pp 26
  • 2000 Lewin K M  The Cost of Culture: Some Dilemmas for Educational Investment in Mauritius in Leach F and Little A (eds) Education, Culture and Economics: Dilemmas and Prospects. Garland, New York 25pp. 
  • 1996 Lewin K M "Changemakers and Change Models: Educational Innovation in Developing Countries" in Lewin K M with Stuart J (eds) Educational Innovation in Developing Countries; Case Studies of Changemakers. MacMillan 7-20 ISBN  (limp-back) ISBN 0-333-49094-0 (Hard-back) (2nd edition) 
  • 1990 Lewin K M, Wang Lu "University Entrance Examinations in China: A Quiet Revolution" Chapter 12 in Broadfoot P Murphy R and Torrance H (eds)  Changing Educational Assessment: International Perspectives and Trends, Routledge. 153-177. First presented at the British Comparative and International Education Society, Bristol, September 1988. 
  • 1984 Lewin K M "Qualification, Selection and Curriculum Reform" in Oxenham J. (ed), Education versus Qualifications?, Unwin Education. London pp 115-147. 
  • 1984 Lewin K M, Little A W "Examination Reform and Educational Change in Sri Lanka 1972-1982 : Modernization or Dependent Underdevelopment?" in Watson K.(ed), Dependence and Interdependence in Education, Croom Helm. 
  • 1982 Lewin K M, Little A W, and Colclough C L "Adjusting to 1980s; Taking Stock of Educational Expenditure" in Financing Educational Development, International Development Research Centre, (IDRC-205E), Ottawa. 13-39.
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