Nicholas Wachira
Professional appointment: Head of Teaching Programmes at Aga Khan University – Institute for Educational Development East Africa Professional profile: Wachira teaches leadership and management courses at the university and has trained principals and teachers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in project managed by Ministries of Education, Commonwealth and the World Bank. He has vast experience in training, developing tools and publishing materials in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in East Africa and SADEC region and has published Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Manuals and papers. He has experience in promoting innovations specifically in design thinking and maker space as signature pedagogy. Wachira’s work has focused on how to support quality education for communities in marginalized and poor communities.
Areas of scholarship: Cross-cultural leadership developmentStudent assessment policies and practicesTeacher leadership Selected publications: Wachira, N (Forthcoming). Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manual for Practioners. Keta Media Publications, Kenya
Abdalla, M., Mwingi, M., Wachira, N., Okoko, J.M., & Webber, C.F. (2020). School leadership preparation in Tanzania. In P. Moorosi & T. Bush (Eds.), Preparation and development of school leaders in Africa (pp. 111-129). Bloomsbury Academic. Wachira, N (2018). Making the Link: Integrating Active Learning and STEMx Education in Tanzanian Primary Schools Using Design Thinking and Making. Education in Tanzania in a Global Era. In Lugalla, J & Ngwaru, M. (Eds). Mukuki Publishers. Tanzania. Wachira, N (2017). Taking Making into the Classroom. A toolkit for Schools. University of British Columbia. Creative Commons. Degrees: PhD, Aga Khan University MEd, Aga Khan University BEd, Moi University, Kenya Email address: nicholas.wachira@aku.edu
Areas of scholarship: Cross-cultural leadership developmentStudent assessment policies and practicesTeacher leadership Selected publications: Wachira, N (Forthcoming). Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manual for Practioners. Keta Media Publications, Kenya
Abdalla, M., Mwingi, M., Wachira, N., Okoko, J.M., & Webber, C.F. (2020). School leadership preparation in Tanzania. In P. Moorosi & T. Bush (Eds.), Preparation and development of school leaders in Africa (pp. 111-129). Bloomsbury Academic. Wachira, N (2018). Making the Link: Integrating Active Learning and STEMx Education in Tanzanian Primary Schools Using Design Thinking and Making. Education in Tanzania in a Global Era. In Lugalla, J & Ngwaru, M. (Eds). Mukuki Publishers. Tanzania. Wachira, N (2017). Taking Making into the Classroom. A toolkit for Schools. University of British Columbia. Creative Commons. Degrees: PhD, Aga Khan University MEd, Aga Khan University BEd, Moi University, Kenya Email address: nicholas.wachira@aku.edu