Planned CELS activities for the following weeks

From 25^th May to 5^th June 2009, Phasina Tangchuang, Ben Kittikhun and Visarut Tangchuang will go to Udorn Thani and Sakon Nakhon provinces to fulfil the JEAI-CELS and NRCT research programmes.

Their research activities during these two weeks will include:

1) Interviewing around 150-200 poor workers, from different occupations in various villages, sub-districts and districts in these 2 provinces, to back up the CELS research programme studying the links between education and poverty.

2) Studying the context of education by focusing on schools. Around 10 teachers from each school (4 schools per province) will be interviewed.

3) Observing mathematics teachers, from different schools, preparing lesson plans (and sharing their experiences) on Multiplication and Division for the 4th grade students. Teachers will be video-recorded when preparing lesson plans; in-depth interviews will be conducted to study their professional and individual backgrounds. The recorded materials will then be used to allow analysis using Transana Programme by researchers from CELS and involved Rajabhat Universities, and also supporting experts from University Lumière-Lyon 2 (France).

From 15^th to 27^th June, the CELS team will carry out the same tasks but in Uttaradit and Lampang provinces.