Martial Dembélé

Mailing address:
Université du Québec à Montréal, Centre interuniversitaire de développement international en éducation, 1205 rue Saint-Denis, Local N-2220, Montréal (Québec)
H2X 3R9, Canada

Email: dembele.martial@uqam.ca

MSU degree: Ph.D in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy, 1995

Dissertation topic: Mentors and Mentoring : Frames for Action, Ways of Acting, and Consequences for Novice Teachers’ Learning

Current position: Associate Director, Interuniversity Center for International Development in Education (CIPGL), University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada

Areas of special competence: Planning and monitoring quality improvement in education, school improvement, organizational support for teacher development, practitioner research

Language: French, English

Publications:
Competent Teachers for African Classrooms. Forthcoming in January-March 2004 issue of IIEP Newsletter.

A relevant Curriculum for Quality Basic Education For All. Chapter co-authored with Mamadou Ndoye for the discussion paper for ADEA’s 2003 biennial meeting.

Improving the Effectiveness of Schools: The African Experience. Chapter contributed to the discussion paper for ADEA’s 2003 biennial meeting.

Breaking the Mold: Teacher Development for Pedagogical Renewal. Chapter contributed to the discussion paper for ADEA’s 2003 biennial meeting.

Pedagogical Renewal and Teacher Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Thematic synthesis co-authored with Bé-Rammaj Miaro in the framework of the Challenge of Learning Study commissioned by ADEA.

Teacher Improvement Projects in Guinea: Lessons Learned from Taking a Program to National Scale. Co-authored with Jack Schwille and Alpha Mahmoudou Diallo (2001). Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 76, No. 3&4, pp. 102-21.

Scaling Up by Focusing Down: Creating Space to Expand Education Reform. Background document prepared for the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), and presented at the biennial meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, October 2001. (Co-authors: Joel Samoff and E. Molapi Sebatane).

La mobilisation des éducateurs guinéens en faveur de la généralisation d’un programme focalisé sur la qualité de l’enseignement élémentaire. Case study prepared for the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), and presented at the biennial meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, October 2001. (Co-authors: Alpha M. Diallo, Karamoko Camara, Jack Schwille and Thierno Hamidou Bah).

Making teachers full partners in their own professional development. In ADEA (1999), Partnerships for Capacity Building and Quality Improvements in Education : Papers from the ADEA Biennial Meeting (Dakar, Senegal, October 1997) (pp. 223-39). ADEA: Paris.

Nancy, the Subject Matter Specialist as Mentor. In Sharon Feiman-Nemser & Lynn W. Paine (Eds.). Mentored Learning to Teach: Theory and Practice. (Book manuscript in final stages of preparation by the National Center for Research on Teacher Learning for submission to a university or other academic press).

La qualité de l’éducation de base au Burkina Faso: Analyse critique et éléments d’une stratégie d’amélioration. Unpublished report of study commissioned by the Bureau des Projets Education and conducted with a team of national consultants and Ministry of Basic Education and Literacy top officials, April 1998.

The Shaping of Secondary Teacher Preparation in Post-Independence Burkina Faso. In Mark Ginsburg & Beverly Lindsay (Eds.) (1995). The Political Dimension in Teacher Education: Comparative Perspectives on Policy Formation, Teacher Socialization, and Society (pp. 140-161). Bristol, PA: Falmer Press.

Last updated: Jan., 2004