Monday, August 15, 2016
Monday, April 15, 2013
Presentation ‘Education in
the Doldrums : Afghan Tragedy’ to Mr.
Koichiro Matsura, Director General,
UNESCO 2002
Dr. Somaratne B Ekanayake is a multi disciplinary
educationist from Sri Lanka. He has served UNESCO and UNHCR as Basic Education
Advisor to Afghanistan, and Central Asia, Research Associate to UIE on Life Long
Education Hamburg, Consultant on Human Rights to the University of Sri
Lanka, Advisor Disaster Risk Management UNESCO, Viet Nam, Researcher
on Issues on Primary Education in Bhutan, UNICEF. In addition he had provided
consultancies to other UN agencies and several other international
organisations such as GIZ, CIDA, UNICEF, ADB. As a writer he has published
nearly 25 books ( latest ‘Failed Pedagogy : Need for New Paradigms (2010)
and 100 research papers on education and
policy, related to disadvantaged groups mostly on small schools and refugee
education practices and Hand Book for Trainers in refugee education for all countries
in addition to conducting policy and evaluation studies,. He has conceptualised
and implemented many innovative practices in both NFE and teacher education
including the current on going project on ‘Education of the Poor and Powerless:
Model on Small Schools’ as well as many similar programmes
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