TY - JOUR TI - Sustaining and Scaling Pedagogic Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Grounded Insights For Teacher Professional Development AU - Haßler, Björn AU - Hennessy, Sara AU - Hofmann, Riikka T2 - Journal of Learning for Development AB - Developing sustainable and scalable educational initiatives is a key challenge in low-income countries where donor-funded short-term projects are limited by both contextual factors and programme design. In this commentary we examine some of the issues related to in-service teacher development in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, grounded predominantly in our work of over five years of iteratively developing, refining and evaluating an intensive school-based professional learning programme for primary school teachers. ‘OER4Schools’ integrates interactive pedagogy, Open Educational Resources (OER) and the use of mobile devices (where available). Our focus here is on identifying what the main factors are perceived to be in sustaining and scaling up such a programme, from the perspectives of participating teachers, workshop facilitators and the research team. Synthesising our previous research and drawing on recent work in the field, we identify the key characteristics of effective and sustainable professional learning in low-resourced contexts. Such characteristics include effective peer facilitation, school-based active learning, explicit programme structure, appropriate scheduling and resourcing, and mitigating resource constraints through the use of OER. Our conclusions offer insights concerning the importance and impact of wider influences on participation and engagement of stakeholders and lead to recommendations for future programme design and implementation. DA - 2018/// PY - 2018 DP - Google Scholar VL - 5 IS - 1 J2 - Journal of Learning for Development ST - Sustaining and Scaling Pedagogic Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa UR - https://docs.opendeved.net/lib/D2GQYC5S KW - AWP2 KW - Active Learning KW - Africa KW - Author:Haßler KW - Author:OpenDevEd KW - Björn-CV-OECS KW - CitedIn:DFID_SRF KW - CitedIn:OER4S-TPE-Anon KW - CitedIn:OER4Schools-2012-HHH1-anon KW - CitedIn:PhD_Thesis KW - DIAL-RDO KW - Developing Nations KW - Educational Technology KW - Elementary Secondary Education KW - Faculty Development KW - Foreign Countries KW - Handheld Devices KW - IMPORT_FROM_DFID_RITE KW - InPrep KW - Inservice Teacher Education KW - Low Income Groups KW - Monday KW - Motivation KW - OER4Schools KW - Open Educational Resources KW - Peer Teaching KW - RPF-May-2016 KW - Resource Allocation KW - Rural Schools KW - STC-TLC KW - Scaffolding (Teaching Technique) KW - Scheduling KW - Shared Resources and Services KW - Sustainable Development KW - Sustainable Development Goal 4 KW - TL:Arabic KW - TL:English KW - TL:Translated KW - Teacher Professional Development KW - Technology Uses in Education KW - Telecommunications KW - TranslationGoingAhead KW - _C:Bangladesh BGD KW - _C:Brazil BRA KW - _C:Cambodia KHM KW - _C:Cameroon CMR KW - _C:China CHN KW - _C:Ethiopia ETH KW - _C:Ghana GHA KW - _C:India IND KW - _C:Japan JPN KW - _C:Kenya KEN KW - _C:Nigeria NGA KW - _C:Rwanda RWA KW - _C:Sierra Leone SLE KW - _C:Singapore SGP KW - _C:South Africa ZAF KW - _C:Tanzania TZA KW - _C:Uganda UGA KW - _C:United Kingdom GBR KW - _C:United States USA KW - _C:Zambia ZMB KW - _C:Zimbabwe ZWE KW - __C:filed:1 KW - __C:scheme:1 KW - _bjoern_cv KW - _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence KW - _yl:a KW - missingHU KW - peer-facilitation KW - school-based active learning KW - sub-Saharan Africa KW - ⛔ No DOI found ER -