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Eric Addae-Kyeremeh is the Head of School in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, here at the Open University. Eric has over 20 years professional experience that involves teaching, research, scholarship of teaching and learning, knowledge exchange, consultancy and public engagement. He was admitted into Fellowship by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT in 2012 for demonstrating leadership, eminence and authority in the area of educational technologies. In recognition of his expertise, significant impact and contribution to leadership and management in education and training he was awarded Chartered Fellowship by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) in the same year.
Dr Addae-Kyeremeh is a signatory to the joint statement on education reform published in the Sunday Times on 10th January 2021 calling for radical reforms and the creation of an education system that nurtures talent and creates opportunity for all.
Prior to joining the Open University in 2011, Eric worked in the Further Education (FE) sector in England from 2000-2010, firstly as a lecturer in Computing and ICT and then in a range of leadership and management positions. During his career in FE he led and managed a number of subject areas including Science and Mathematics; Information and Communication Technology; and Business, Administration and Law.
Dr Addae-Kyeremeh's research interests are broadly leadership and management of education, teacher/headteacher professional learning across cultures and contexts, and on distance learning forms of teacher education in low-middle income countries. His research also focus on exploring learning and development of education practitioners across contexts and education phases by offering contextual understandings and constructs that are meaningful and practical to policy makers and change leaders. He has investigated teachers/headteachers professional development experiences in England, India and Ghana and has written and presented academic papers on some of these areas at International conferences. Browse Dr Addae-Kyeremeh's research on Open Research Online.
His principal areas of interest for doctoral research supervision include:
Co-Investigator, Partners in Play Project (P3), Ghana, Right to Play ($CA 500,000), 2020 - 2021.
Joint PI and Technical Lead for middle leadership programme, OpenSTEM Africa, Ghana, Opito (£600,000), 2018 - date.
Joint PI, Distance Learning in Teacher Education in Ghana, Education Futures Research Cluster- CREET small grants Grant (£4,000), 2017 – 2020.
Joint PI, Investigating pedagogic leadership in India, International Development and Inclusive Innovation (IDII) SRA Grant (£2,500), 2016 – 2018.
PI, Professional development through networking amongst basic school headteachers in Ghana, Ghana, British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) Grant (£4,000), 2014 – 2016
Joint PI, 'Enhancing higher education teaching and learning in Bangladesh: Fostering the pedagogical knowledge, teaching skills and research capabilities of early career academics', Bangladesh, British Council as part of the International Strategic Partnerships in Research and Education (Inspire) Project (£36,000), 2014 – 2016.
Dr Addae-Kyeremeh's teaching primarily focuses on leadership and management in education and has contributed to several of the OUs Masters in Education modules. Between 2011 and 2015 he co-authored four masters modules: E855 Leading professional practice in education, E856 Educational leadership: context, strategy and collaboration, EE812 Educational leadership: exploring strategy and EE813 MA Ed dissertation: leadership and management. Dr Addae-Kyeremeh is also co-author of the popular badged open course (BOC), Succeeding in postgraduate study, a free course designed to offer essential preparation for pursuing masters level study. He has also co-developed several open educational resources (OER) in support of TESS India Project in India and OpenSTEM Africa project in Ghana.
Dr Addae-Kyeremeh has expertise in providing technical assistance to policy makers in LMIC and leading large scale international projects. He worked as OU Academic Director of the DfID-funded Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL) programme in Ghana 2014 -2015. He was also the critical reviewer of the recent national policy and curriculum framework for Pre-Tertiary Education Curriculum (2018) in Ghana. He previously co-led the school leadership development strand of TESS-India, a £10million DfID funded programme across 7 states in India.
He is currently a Technical Advisor and Researcher on the OpenSTEM Africa project in Ghana providing high level policy guidance as well as leading on the development and implementation of CPD for teachers and middle leaders in senior high schools.
Eric worked on the BBC/OU radio series Project 17 as Academic Consultant with Professor Giles Mohan (OU) and Dr Aravinda Guntupalli (Aberdeen). This co-production is based on the United Nations 17 sustainable development goals (SDG) and was a 17 part broadcast series on BBC World Service. Each SDG was examined from the perspective of a different nation and expressed through the lives of 17-year-olds as they challenged the experts on what action (and inaction) will mean for their futures. Listen to all the episodes via BBC World Service - Project 17.
Don’t Exclude Me (BBC2 - Autumn 2021) - More recently, Eric and Professor Liz Chamberlain worked as academic consultants on this two-part documentary series that examined the rise of exclusions in primary schools by looking at behaviour in school children in a British primary school. The programme followed training expert and ex-pupil referral head teacher, Marie Gentles, as she sought to remedy behavioural concerns by working with staff, parents and students, in order to keep the pupils in school.
Dr Addae-Kyeremeh has significant experience, knowledge and understating of academic standards of taught postgraduate qualifications and has held external examining positions on postgraduate qualifications in UK HEIs:
Academic review/editorial work
Dr Addae-Kyeremeh has a range of international links that have been established through his research collaborations and international development work. Most notably, he worked with the Arab OU Education Faculty (2011-2015) as Academic Reviewer with responsibility for the quality assurance and support for their MEd Instructional Technology, MEd Leadership and Management and BEd programmes.
He is often invited to panel discusions and as guest speaker on a range of issues that relate to education policy, educational leadership and teacher professional development. The following are examples of his contributions:
Name | Type | Parent Unit |
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CREET: Educational Studies Research Cluster | Cluster | Faculty of Education and Language Studies |
What makes useful evidence for educational leadership practice? An interview (2018)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric and Fox, Alison
Management in Education, 32(1) (pp. 53-55)
Teachers’ access to and use of evidence. (2020-03-16)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
In: Fox, Alison and Poultney, Val eds. Professional Learning Communities and Teacher Enquiry. Evidence-based Teaching for Enquiring Teachers (1) (pp. 80-92)
ISBN : 9781912508815 | Publisher : Critical Publishing | Published : St Albans
ICT-based teaching and learning in Ghana: OpenSTEM Africa (2021-09)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric; Cullen, Jane; Mallet, Joshua and Owusu-Agyemfra, Augustus
In : UKFIET Conference Building Back Better in Education and Training? (13/09/2021-16/09/2021, Online)
Remodelling STEM education using onscreen tools to teach practical science in Ghana (2021-09)
Cullen, Jane; Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric; Murphy, Kerry and Biard, Olivier
In : Ghana National Education Week (NEW) 2021 - Reimagining Education for National Transformation (28/09/21-01/10/21, Online)
Exploring new ways of working in the co-creation of digital teaching and learning assets to support professional development at scale- Experiences from Ghana (2021-08)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric; Ani, Anthony; Jebuni-Adanu, Cynthia and Nettey, Jeremiah
In : DETA Conference 2021-Reimagining African Teacher Education through Distance for a Post-Pandemic Future (03/08/2021-05/08/2021, Online)
Designing and developing educational resources for teacher education via Open and Distance Learning (ODL), A case study from Ghana (2019-01)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric; Cullen, Jane and Abreh, Might Kojo
In : SEDO conference Theme: Promoting Innovative Educational Practices for Sustainable Development (29-30 Jan 2019, Cape Coast, Ghana)
Understanding teachers’ working experiences: capturing data on teachers as professionals, learners and change-makers in low resource contexts (2017-09-05)
Moore, Rhiannon; Buckler, Alison; Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric; Singh, Renu; Rossiter, Jack and High, Chris
In : Young Lives and RITES (OU) symposium (5-7 Sep 2017, Oxford, UK)
Connectedness and organisational learning: The role of relationships in supporting headteacher professional development (2017-07-09)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
In : British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) Annual Conference (7-9 Jul 2017, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)
Professional learning through networking: perceptions and practices amongst basic school headteachers in Ghana (2015-07)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
In : British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) Annual Conference (10-12 Jul 2015, Reading, UK)
School-based learning and development: revisiting professional development for headteachers in India (2014-11-17)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric and Wise, Christine
In : Exploring Leadership Learning and Theories in Asia (ELLTA) 2014 (17-19 Nov 2014, Penang, Malaysia)
Leadership development at scale to support policy: experiences from the TESS India project- a UKAID project (2014-07-11)
Wise, Christine; Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric; Anand, Kavita and Wheeler, Spokey
In : International Conference of British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (7-11 Jul 2014, Stratford-Upon-Avon)
Professional development spaces: an exploratory study of headteachers perspectives in Ghana (2014-06)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
In : 3rd AFTRA Teaching and Learning in Africa Conference (11-13 Jun 2014, Accra, Ghana)
Messengers or agents? The capacity of headteachers to influence educational policy change in Ghana. (2012-07-20)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
In : Annual International Conference of British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (20-22 Jul 2012, Manchester)
Learning-centred leadership: practices and effects. (2012-07-10)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
In : International Council on Education for Teaching conference (10-12 Jul 2012, Cape Coast. Ghana.)
The Role of Networking in Supporting Headteachers' Professional Development and Practice in Ghana (2020-04-30)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
edd thesis The Open University
Partners in Play Baseline Evaluation Report (2022-01)
Akyeampong, Albert; Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric; Cullen, Jane and Hendry, Helen
Open University, UK.