This presents part one of the Action Plan developed at the IAU Workshop on higher education for EFA, held in New Delhi, India on 20-21 February 2014. It deals with how to better engage research undertaken by Indian universities to achieve EFA.

1. A.1
Early childhood care and education
Quality of education
Learning skills for young people
A.2
Access to education
Educational policy
Learning outcomes
Teacher training
A. Areas of Research

2. Contd…
A.3
 Basic education
 Vocational/ professional
 Pre primary
A. 4
 Institution as a whole
A.5
Institutional policy/mechanism

3. Focus areas of primary and secondary research
A. Primary research:
1. Components of quality
-pedagogy, learning outcomes, evaluation of
programmes/systems, multi-lingualism and its
relationship to teaching and learning
2. Documentation of best practices, all levels
3. Developing culturally appropriate assessment
methodology, esp. tools
4. Documenting cultural practices
5. Research on learning outcomes for children

4. Contd…
5. Socio-academic profiles of persons in HEIs
6. Studying institutional/policy mechanisms that
promote research.
7. Research with young adults from diverse academic
backgrounds on how they can contribute to EFA
8. Case-studies of personal transformation among
teachers/students/others engaged in EFA related
activity (Documenting mutuality of benefit)

5. Action Research
 Methodologies of teaching
 Skill development for undertaking research at
various levels: students/ teachers
 Use of newer technologies for undertaking research
 Collaborating with NGOs/ Field based
organizations/ various departments of universities
 Creating research websites for dissemination
 Ensuring feedback as an outcome of research to
ensure change in practices

6. Secondary research
1. Consolidation and Meta analysis of existing
researches/studies
2. Review of areas of research that feed into EFA goals
3. Understanding issues of access: gender, caste,
class, language, ability/disability
4. Looking at CSR policy and expenditure of
Industries for linkages with EFA (if at all!)
5. RTI as a tool to understand EFA goals

7. Approaches
 Longitudinal studies: more specifically related to
outcomes
 Macro studies
 Case studies
 Mixed methods research: qualitative and
quantitative paradigms
 Collaborative research: inter departmental, NGOs,
field based organizations

8. Persons undertaking research
 Academicians-UG, PG, Ph.D, Depts. and Centres
 Students
 Teacher training centres
 School teachers
 Pre-school teachers
 NGO’s and field based organisations
 Governmental bodies

9. Processes
 Awareness of areas that need research
 Awareness of methods
 Permissions and protocols
 Documentation
 Dissemination of research finding
 Implementation of teaching learning processes at the
school level
 Funding
 Ethical considerations
 Cultural appropriateness of methods and practices

10. Summing up
Dissemination
Best Practices
Evaluation
Studies
Policy
HE EFA
Research