A STUDY OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF TEEA TUTORS IN TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES IN EAST AFRICA

Abstract

This is a study of the work and activities of American tutors who were supplied to teacher training colleges in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda by the Teacher Education in East Africa (TEEA) project from1964 to 1971. Teachers College, Columbia University selected, prepared and placed the tutors and vas responsible for the administration and supervision of the project. The study is based on the. perceptions of those who worked directly with the TEEA tutors in the colleges as well as the perceptions of the tutors themselves. Information was collected in East Africa from interviews with principals and from questionnaires received from colleague tutors and TEEA tutors. , Respondents identified the major contributions in ideas, methods and materials that were made by the TEEA tutors and described their -^expectations of the project, the tutors' difficulties of adjustment, the long-term effects of the tutors' innovations and the administration of the project.