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Photo of Keith LewinKeith Lewin
Emeritus Professor (Education)

Research

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Professor Lewin has worked on education and development since the 1970s and has acted as an advisor to many development agencies, governments and non-government actors. His country experience includes projects in more than twenty countries in Africa and East, South East and South Asia. His research interests focus is on educational planning, economics and finance of education, access and equity in education and development, teacher education, science and technology education policy, educational aid and project evaluation.

He has been the author of numerous research based books, journal articles and reports on education and development. These include the works listed below on educational innovation in developing countries, educational planning and finance, science education and development, access to basic education, non-state providers of education, and teacher education. His work is widely cited as indicated by the google scholar for his publications which is highly rated at a value of 42. More recent publications are available at

 

Selected Research Projects

 

  • Aid to Education and the Low Financing Trap 2019-2023 \

 

  • Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2016-17 – Lewin K M The educational challenges of transition: Key issues for 2030  

 

  • CREATE – Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity
  •   DFID Research Centre with over 100 publications

 

  • MUSTER – Multi-Site Teacher Education Research Project

 

  • Education for All

 

  • Commonwealth Ministers Post 2015 Goals and Targets

 

  • Secondary Education in Africa
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  • Science Education Policy

 

  • Educational Innovation in Developing Countries

 

  • Non Government Providers
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  • Financing Education in Austerity  

 

 

SELECTED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Books/Reports

 

  1. Lewin K M (2023) Escaping the low financing trap; Strategies for sustainable educational development in low income countries. ODI Research Report, London.  

 

2.      Lewin K M (2015) Educational Access, Equity and Development: Planning to Make Rights Realities. Fundamentals of Educational Planning Serial Number 98. International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, Paris

 

3.      Lewin K M (2011) Making Rights Realities: Researching Educational Access, Transitions and Equity. Research Report of the Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity. Brighton: ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓƵ ISBN 0-901881-80-5 pp72

 

4.      Lewin K M (2008) ; Strategies for Sustainable Financing of Secondary Schooling in Sub Saharan Africa. Secondary Education in Africa  (SEIA): Africa Human Development Series; World Bank, Washington DC pp170 + CD Rom including Case Studies ISBN 13:978-0-8213-7115-2

 

5.      Lewin K M Stuart J S (2003) Researching Teacher Education: New Perspectives on Practice, Performance and Policy DFID Research Series 49a pp213

 

6.      Lewin K M, Caillods F (2001) Financing Secondary Education in Developing Countries; Strategies for Sustainable Growth. International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris. 370pp ISBN 92-803-1139-9

 

7.      Lewin K M, with Stuart J S (eds) (1996) Educational Innovation in Developing Countries; Case Studies of Change Makers.  MacMillan. 325pp. ISBN  (limp-back) ISBN 0-333-49094-0 (Hard-back) (2nd edition, first edition 1991)

 

8.      Lewin K M, Little A W, Xu Hui, Zheng Ji Wei, (1994)  Educational Innovation in China; Tracing the Impact of the 1985 Reforms. Longman 315pp.

 

9.      Colclough C. with Lewin K M, (1993) Educating All the Children; Strategies for Primary Education in Developing Countries. Oxford University Press. 328pp.

 

10.    Lewin K M (1987) Education in Austerity; Options for Planners.  Fundamentals of Educational Planning Series, International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris 130pp

 

Journal articles 

 

1.      Lewin K M (2022) It is time to fix the low financing trap: public spending on education revisited. Journal of International Cooperation in Education https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICE-06-2022-0011/full/html

 

2.      Lewin K M 2020 Beyond business as usual: aid and financing of education in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal for Educational Development 78 (2020) 102247

 

3.      Lewin K M 2020 Contingent reflections on coronavirus and priorities for educational planning and development. Lead article. Prospects 49, 17-24

 

4.      Lewin K M, 2019 The Sustainable Development Goals for Education: Commonwealth Perspectives and Opportunities. Round Table. The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs September 2019 Taylor and Francis, London 

 

5.      Lewin K Zeitlyn, B, Lewin K M, Chimombo J, Meke, Elizabeth (2015) Inside Private Secondary Schools in Malawi: Access or Exclusion? International Journal of Education and Development (IJED)  

 

6.      Lewin K M, and Sabates R, (2012), Who Gets What?  Is Improved Access to Basic Education Pro-Poor in SSA? International Journal of Education and Development 32:1

 

7.      Lewin K M (2011) Expanding Access to Secondary Education: Can India Catch Up? in Lewin K M, Little A W, and Hunt F (eds), Access, Equity, and Transitions in Education in Low Income Countries; CREATE Special Issue of the International Journal of Education and Development 31:4, 382-394 ISSN 0738-0593

 

8.      Lewin K M and Little A W (2011) Access to Education Revisited: Equity, Drop out and Transitions to Secondary School in South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa in Lewin K M, Little A W, and Hunt F (eds) (2011) International Journal of Education and Development CREATE Special Issue of the International Journal of Education and Development 31:4, 333-338 ISSN 0738-0593

 

9.      Lewin K M (2011) Policy Dialogue and Target Setting: Do Current Indicators of Education for All Signify Progress? CREATE Special Issue of the Journal of Educational Policy 26:4 571:589 ISSN 0268-0939

 

10.    Lewin K M (2009) Access to Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Patterns, Problems and Possibilities, in K M and Akyeampong K Access to Education in Sub Saharan Africa: CREATE Special Issues  Comparative Education Vol 45:2 151:175 ISSN 0305-0068

 

11.    Lewin K M (2007) Diversity in Convergence: Access to Education for All; Presidential Address, BAICE Belfast September 2006 published in Compare; Volume 37, Number 5, October 2007 , pp. 577-599(23)

 

12.    Lewin K M (2006) Planning for Secondary Expansion in Sub Saharan Africa – Key Issues for Sustainable Growth in Access. Perspectives in Education Vol 24(2), June 2006

 

13.    Lewin K M (2005) Taking Targets to Task: Planning Post Primary Education International Journal of Education and Development Volume 25, Issue 4, July 2005, Pages 408-422

 

14.    Lewin K M (2003) Insights into the Policy and Practice of Teacher Education in Low Income  Countries: The Multi Site Teacher Education Research Project. Special Issue. British Education Research Journal,  Vol 29, No 5 691-707 October 2003;

 

Chapters

 

1.      Lewin, K M Using a systems approach to education and development;  insights from a multi-country research programme on access and learning in Faul M and Savage L (Eds) (2023) Systems Thinking in International Education and Development Sreries on International Education and Development, NORRAG, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. .

 

2.      Lewin K M (2023)  Equity in Access and Learning: A Way Forward for Secondary Education in India. Chapter in Mangalagiri A,  Festschrift for R. Govinda, Vice Chancellor for National University of educational Administration, Delhi, India.

 

3.      Lewin K M (2021) Unequal access to education: Accounting for change and counting the costs in Rose P, Arnot M, Jeffery R, and Singal N (2019) Reforming Education and Challenging Inequalities in Southern Contexts: New Directions for Education Research. Routledge, Cambridge 

 

4.      Lewin K M (2016) Does Privatising Educational Services for the Poor Make Sense? Chapter in Lubienski C and Ndimande, B  Privatisation and Markets in Education,   University of Chicago Press

 

5.      Lewin K M (2011) Four Decades of Educational Planning – Retrospect and Prospect. In Varghese N V and Bray M Directions in Educational Planning: International Experiences and Perspectives. International Institute of Educational Planning, UNESCO Publishing, Paris ISBN 978-92-803-1360-4.

 

6.      Lewin K M (2007) The Limits to Growth of Non-Government Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa in Walford G and Srivastava P 'Private Schools in Developing Countries' published by Symposium Books, 2007

 

7.      Lewin K M (2006) Costs and Finance of Multigrade – How Do the Books Balance? in Little A W (ed) Education for All and Multigrade Teaching: Challenges and opportunities, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands

 

8.      Lewin K M, (2005), Seeking Secondary Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa: Four Fallacies, Four Foresights and Four Freedoms in King K (ed) Reintegrating Education, Skills and Work in Africa: towards informal or Knowlede Economies? Towards Autoonomy or Dependency in Development? 2005, ISBN 0-9545183-2-2

 

Recent Research Reports and Monographs

 

1.      Lewin K M with others, 2018 Sustainability and Resilience: Can Education Deliver? Commonwealth Secretariat

 

2.      Lewin K M (2017), The Educational Challenges of Transition; Key Issues Towards 2030. Global Partnership for Education, Washington  DC.

 

3.      Lewin K M (2015) Goals and Indicators for Development: Consolidating the Architectures. Open Society Foundations. New York  

 

Eight co-authored papers by Keith Lewin, Gaurav Siddhu, Shashiranjan Jha, and Joanna Harma for  Research Reports for Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan-Technical Cooperation Agency (MHRD-TCA), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. The titles are available from RMSA-TCA and the authors. Click to download.

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Blogs

 

  • Lewin K M 2023 Fixing the Education Financing Trap; Persuasions Promises and Prospects: Beyond the UN Transforming Education Summit ODI Blog.

 

  • Lewin K M 2021 Peak Aid. Norrag podcast: and video

 

  • Lewin K M Taxing Matters: Fiscal Reforms, public goods and aid. Lead article Norrag”: Special Issue 5  
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  • Lewin K M 2020. Commentary on Report of the Global Education Advisory Panel, November 2020
     

 

  • Lewin K M 2019  Peak Aid and Time for Something Different  

 

  • Lewin K M (2018) Education Financing Gaps and How to Fix Them. FreshEdPodcast  

 

  • Lewin K M (2018) Is the Education Outcomes Fund a Game Changer? UKFIET Blog

 

  • Lewin K M (2018) Video/u-tube Learning Matters and the World Development Report Revisted

 

 

  • Lewin K M (2015) Are the Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable? UK Forum for Education and Training