David R. Evans (Ph.D., Stanford, 1969) dre@educ.umass.edu
In my 32 years at the Center for International Education,
I have been involved in a wide variety of academic and practical activities.
During this time period I have been directly involved in the design and management
of dozens of educational projects in Latin America, Asia and Africa. I have
also been a consultant on education projects for a variety of development agencies..
My extended field experience is largely in anglo-phone Africa, with over five
years of experience as a teacher and researcher in Uganda. As a result, I have
extensive experience with the development philosophy and the procedures used
by the major development agencies like UNESCO, IBRD, USAID, UNICEF as well as
international NGOs like CARE and Save the Children.
My academic & research interests have centered around the following topics:
theory and practice in nonformal & popular education; educational planning in
developing countries; teacher education in third world countries; use of spreadsheet-based
models for educational planning; gender issues & girls' education in developing
countries; and educational policy formulation and implementation for developing
countries. Other interests have included: simulation and gaming for NFE learners;
models and simulations for education system management; and cross-cultural training.
Current research interests center around alternative approaches to systems of
teacher education in low-resource contexts; the political economy of educational
statistics; the challenges of policy formulation in decentralizing national
systems.