Reimagining Development Education in Africa

Olivia Tiwaa Kwapong is Associate Professor of Adult Education and currently Dean of the School of Continuing and Distance Education of the University of Ghana. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Ghana and has studied as a Special Doctoral Candidate at Harvard University. In 2013, she served as Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Bloomsburg University in the USA. She has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has supervised over 60 masters and doctoral students. She has authored 5 books and over 40 journal articles.David Addae is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Adult Education and Human Resource Studies, University of Ghana and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Adult Basic Education at the University of South Africa. His research interests include adult learning; global citizenship education; gender and development; feedback as dialogue; higher education development; adult literacy; learner support; and transformative learning. He pursues these interests through an interdisciplinary approach with an interpretivist philosophical lens.  John Kwame Boateng is Senior Lecturer in the School of Continuing and Distance Education, University of Ghana. He received the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Award in 2014, which is University of Michigan’s Flagship program that has helped to retain and empower faculty working in African higher education institutions. His research interests cover distance learning and development education. He now serves as Head of the University of Ghana Learning Centers.