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Eridadi Tuwangye
Eridadi Tuwangye has a passion for disadvantaged children and youth. In 1987, he co-founded Mothercare Preparatory School that provides rural children access to quality education. The school is recognized as a hub of education innovations which educate, equip and empower children. It is one of the first schools in Uganda to introduce computer skills and to pioneer teaching of French and Kiswahili right from primary one to seven. The 3EzSeries writers use the school to experiment innovative teaching and learning pedagogy. The school has won several academic and co-curricular awards and has greatly contributed towards improving performance of schools in Kasese District in the annual National Primary Leaving Examinations.Eridadi coaches and mentors education practitioners to use child rights based methodology and create child-friendly learning environments. He promotes use of library resource provisions to encourage children to read and learn more on their own.
Earlier, Eridadi held several education management and administration leadership positions in education institutions, Ministry of Education and NGO projects. One of his outstanding successes is the Mubende Integrated Teacher Education Program ─a non-formal education project which provided 110,300 disadvantaged out of school children and youth access to education and simultaneous training of 800 teachers using context appropriate flexible learning on-the-job distance education strategy. His curriculum development work includes co-authoring the National Social Studies syllabus for Primary Schools and Teacher Education Colleges, Distance Education Professional Studies Modules, and a teachers’ guide for teaching of reading Runyankore-Rukiga language. This wealth of experience enriches the 3EzSeries team effort in developing local-content-rich and appropriate reading resources for children and other young people.
He is an alumni of Southampton University, UK and Kyambogo University, Uganda.
Edreda Tuwangye
Edreda Tuwangye (PhD) enjoys working with children and education practitioners. She is a teacher educator and curriculum developer who has widely researched and advised Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs and projects which aim to increase access and improve quality of education, especially in countries recovering from war- such as Eritrea, Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan.
She brings to 3EzSeries writing team theory and practice in developing curriculum resources for children as well as conducting teacher training programs. She tries to integrate life and social skills, gender sensitivity, inclusiveness and psychosocial well-being into curriculum, and in writing local content stories in ways that appeal to diverse learning styles.Her experience working with Government Ministries of Education and NGOs in different countries helps her to produce education resources for multicultural contexts. Edreda’s curriculum development work includes co-authoring: Uganda Early Childhood Teacher Education Curriculum and Teacher’s Guides; Uganda Primary Schools’ National Curriculum English Language Text Books and complementary non-text book materials. In addition, she has developed teacher training intervention manuals and tools to assess teaching -for use by Ministries of Education and NGO practitioners. These facilitate teacher training and enhance supervisory support services, especially in teaching the five foundational literacy skills.
Her work in early grade reading has involved designing library pockets to address book famine in many primary schools and increase literacy outcomes. In 2016, Edreda participated in developing scope and sequence for four local languages (Dinka, Nuer, Bari, and Toposa) in South Sudan. This serves as a “roadmap” to the teaching of reading and to inform designing of national curriculum materials. She has also provided oversight in Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) adaptation into two South Sudan languages (Bari and Toposa) and in setting of literacy standards and benchmarks for primary school classes 1 to 4 in South Sudan.
Earlier, Edreda was a primary school teacher, a tutor in different teachers’ colleges, a national school supervisor and part time university lecturer. She is an alumni of Moray House College of Education (Scotland, UK), Kyambogo University (Uganda), Birmingham University (UK) and Edith Cowan University (Australia).
Kato Nkimba
Kato Nkimba (PhD) is a consultant, researcher and writer. His multidisciplinary work blends in the world of literature, culture and social sciences. He has researched and taught various courses at universities in Political Science, such as Black Social and Political Thought as well as Human Rights and Democracy. Nkimba has also taught German and Kiswahili as foreign languages, including developing Kiswahili language resources for Wayne State University’s Language Laboratory (Michigan, USA).
Of recent, Nkimba has concentrated on providing a wide range of services to international and local NGOs, governments and other institutions — supporting projects implemented in development, emergency and fragile contexts in Eastern, Southern and Horn of Africa. His expertise is child rights, child participation and child protection covering all forms of violence against children. As a researcher, he enjoys exceptional expertise working with children and young people using child-friendly and participatory approaches and tools.
More specifically, Nkimba has for over a decade worked with in and out-of-school children and young people as well as duty bearers. He has raised their awareness on child protection, child rights and related global and national legal and policy frameworks. In addition, he has equipped and empowered them to transform systems and structures. This has positioned many of them to confidently voice their views and actively get involved in child-led initiatives, other community and school-based activities as well as in advocacy campaigns to strengthen protection of children and other young people’s rights.
Nkimba leads the 3EzSeries Team. He draws from his deep practical experience and understanding of child rights, protection and participation to steer the team in developing stories and other resources that: raise awareness of current and relevant issues; maintain focus on local content nuanced with global thinking; and are offered in child-friendly formats.
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