Kurt Jordaens , Marc De Meyer , Muriel Van Nuffel , Ashley H. Kirk-Spriggs , Christopher Sabuni , Maulid Mwatawala , Ramadhani Mujabwa , Sija Kabota , Terence Bellingan , Georg Goergen , Mervyn Mansell , Aruna Manrakhan , Antonio Sinzogan , Mark K. Schutze , Arianna Thomas-Cabianca , Robert Copeland , Burgert Muller , Massimiliano Virgilio , Ella Bert , Eva November , John Midgley
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尽管双翅目昆虫对非洲热带地区的人类生活有重大影响,但对它们的研究仍然不足。这在很大程度上是由于非洲热带地区(也许南非除外)缺乏双翅目分类学专家和收藏馆馆长,一些发展中国家在维护收藏馆方面面临困难,以及数字化标本数量较少。这阻碍了将这些双翅目昆虫藏品用于鉴定服务、分类和系统发育研究以及其他生物研究领域。非洲热带地区迫切需要知识转让和培训年轻的新兴昆虫学家,这促使中部非洲皇家博物馆和合作机构在非洲热带地区组织昆虫学培训课程。培训班在非洲的战略要地举办,为期十个工作日,用英语授课,学员和讲师均可免费参加。在此,我们首先简要介绍培训课程的发展历史。其次,我们简要介绍了培训课程申请者和参与者的性别、年龄、教育和专业情况。第三,我们尽可能多地提供有关培训课程组织工作各个方面的信息。所有信息均免费提供,文件以 Word 或 Excel 格式提供,以方便他人日后使用。希望这些信息能够激励和促进在非洲热带地区和其他生物地理区域组织其他昆虫学(或类似)培训课程。这些培训课程将促进南南昆虫学研究网络的发展,同时对具有不同教育或专业背景的学员进行培训可能会促进大学、其他科研机构之间在研究生培训和研究方面的合作。它们还可以启动科研机构与那些参与管理、政策制定、外联或法律程序执行的机构之间的合作。我们相信,这类培训课程是组织类似能力建设活动的最佳途径,将有助于建立一个可持续的昆虫学家网络。最后,这些培训课程可能是缩小非洲热带地区生物科学领域性别不平等差距的众多可能途径之一。
A best way forward to the organisation of entomological training courses in sub-Saharan Africa
Despite their significant impact on human life in the Afrotropical Region, Diptera remain understudied. For a large part this is due to a lack of Diptera taxonomic experts and collection curators from the Afrotropical Region (except for South Africa perhaps), the difficulties some developing countries face in maintaining collections, and the low number of digitised specimens. This impedes the use of these Diptera collections for identification services, taxonomic and phylogenetic research, and other biological research areas. The dire need for knowledge transfer and training of young and emerging entomologists in the Afrotropical Region has prompted the Royal Museum for Central Africa and collaborating institutes to organise entomological training courses in the Afrotropical Region. The training courses take place in Africa, in strategic locations, cover a period of ten working days, are taught in English, and are free of cost to participants and lecturers. Here, we first provide a brief history of the evolution of the training courses. Second, we give a short description of the gender, age, educational and professional profile of the applicants and participants of the training courses. Third, we provide as much information as possible on all aspects of the organisation of the training courses. All information is freely available and documents are provided in Word or Excel format to facilitate future use by others. It is to be hoped that this information shall stimulate and facilitate the organisation of other entomological (or similar) training courses in the Afrotropical Region and other biogeographical regions. Such training courses will stimulate South-South networks for entomology research and the simultaneous training of participants with a different educational or professional background might foster collaborations between universities, other scientific institutes in postgraduate training and research. They may also initiate collaboration between scientific institutes and those involved in management, policy making, outreach, or implementation of legal procedures. We believe that this kind of training courses presents a best way forward in the organisation of similar capacity building activities that will contribute to a sustainable network of entomologists. Finally, these training courses may be one of the many possible ways to reduce the gender inequality gap in biological sciences in the Afrotropical Region.
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The purpose of the International Journal of Educational Development is to foster critical debate about the role that education plays in development. IJED seeks both to develop new theoretical insights into the education-development relationship and new understandings of the extent and nature of educational change in diverse settings. It stresses the importance of understanding the interplay of local, national, regional and global contexts and dynamics in shaping education and development. Orthodox notions of development as being about growth, industrialisation or poverty reduction are increasingly questioned. There are competing accounts that stress the human dimensions of development.