Education
Teaching Interculturally in Qatar
Qatar has unique traits that make some areas of inquiry particularly relevant. That the citizen population is a minority and that there are so many international K-12 schools as well as international university branch campuses, the country is very well suited to explore education, identity and language questions. Wisam Abdul-Jabbar edited a 2025 book delving […]
Tags: #Education #Inclusion #Interculturally #Interculture #Qatar
Education in Afghanistan
From his doctoral work, Yahia Baiza wrote “Education in Afghanistan: Development, Influences and Legacies since 1901” (2013), published by Routledge. The book covers more than a century (1901-2012), structured around the political eras of the period. As much as this book is about education, it is equally about the context of each time period. This […]
Qatar: Political, Economic and Social Issues
Haitham M. Alkhateeb published “Qatar: Political, Economic and Social Issues” (I published a similar book with the same publisher, in the same year, on Ethiopia). Unfortunately this publisher charges an unacceptably high rate for books (both this book and the one I edited sell for US$230), which makes them largely inaccessible to most readers. I […]
Whose Voice Matters in IPE?
New open access publication: Whose voice matters in the teaching and learning of IPE? Implications for policy and policy making Abstract: Critical decolonial assessments of International Political Economy (IPE) curricula have found a continued dominance of Euro-Western perspectives. However, these critical assessments have often been of specific programs or courses. In this article, we open the canvas wider […]
Native Colonialism
The people of Ethiopia defeated European attempts to colonize it. However, Dr Yirga argues that in embracing western education and erasing local history and tradition, the institutions and laws put in place colonizing processes, what he calls ‘native colonialism’. This is one of the most interesting books I have read of recent, highly recommended to anyone interested […]
Tags: #Colonialism #Education #Ethiopia #Native Colonialism #Tradition
The Global Majlis
Career diplomat and current State Minister Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari wrote “The Global Majlis” (arabic 2015, translation 2016) as an “intellectual autobiography”. The book draws on reflections from his work in Syria, Lebanon, France and the US, as well as in Qatar (published by HBKU press). Culture emerges as a key thread throughout the book, as […]
Tags: #Culture #Education #Global Majlis #Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari #Qatar
Secure the Base
Secure the Base (2016) is a collection of speeches that Ngugi wa Thiong’o gave. His other works include Decolonizing the Mind (1986), An African Renaissance (2009) and Theory and Politics of Knowing (2012), amongst many others. A few quotes: “It is fair to say that ‘tribe’, ‘tribalism’ and ‘tribal wars’, the terms so often used […]
Tags: #decolonization #Education #Ngugi wa Thiongo #Tribalism #Tribe
Education, Politics and Social Change in Ethiopia
In looking for research that explores the challenges of ethnic federalism and language in Ethiopia, I came across the book “Education, Politics and Social Change in Ethiopia” (2010), edited by Paulos Milkias (Concordia University) and Messay Kebede (University of Dayton). All of the contributing authors are based outside of Ethiopia, which is not necessarily negative, […]
Tags: #Education #Ethiopia #Language #Politics #Social change
Funded MA: Education for Sustainable Development
Location: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Start Date: September 2017 Salary: $12,000/year stipend (with possibility of further scholarship opportunities) THE PROJECT Sustainable Development cannot be achieved through one sector alone, yet education in particular is seen as a vehicle to move us towards this goal. While there is a plethora of literature that examines the […]
Tags: #Education #Environmental Studies #Sustainability #Sustainable development
PhD Studentships (11): Multilingualism in Education
A group of researchers of the Research Unit “Education, Culture, Cognition and Society” (ECCS) and of the Luxembourg Centre for Educational Testing (LUCET) at the University of Luxembourg has obtained a large grant for the interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Unit CALIDIE (Capitalising on Linguistic Diversity in Education). The doctoral programme CALIDIE is funded in the frame […]
Tags: #Education #Ethnography #Linguistics #Multilingualism #Psychology
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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