TEEA TUTORS AND SIX PRIMARY TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES IN EAST AFRICA

Abstract

Teacher Education in East Africa (TEEA.) was a program to provide experienced and well qualified American teacher-educators to the teacher, training colleges of East Africa. These TEEA tutors taught as instructors in preservice and in-service courses, and participated in the planned expansion of teacher training which took place in the latter half of the 1960's. The preparation of primary school teachers had become a focus of popular and political interest, and the Seven-year lifespan of TEEA was a period of growing emphasis on this kind of education. What role did the American tutors play during this period, what was the extent of their influence and why did they-have more or less of an impact upon their colleges.