David Marriott, Founder and CEO, Ubuntu Education
- David Marriott is the founder and chief executive officer of Ubuntu Education.
- David is an experienced Headteacher with educational experience in Africa and the UK.
Podcast
Overview
In this interview, David Marriott, the founder and CEO of Ubuntu Education, discusses the philosophy and meaning behind the term “Ubuntu”. He explains the hub’s goal of providing a decolonized approach to developing education in Africa by tapping into the wisdom of experienced African educators. Marriott highlights the unique challenges faced by African educators such as lack of affordable resources and professional development opportunities. He describes the hub’s role in facilitating networking, sharing resources, and giving educators a platform to voice their perspectives. Marriott also elaborates on the concept of distributed leadership in schools.
00:31- About David Marriott
- David Marriott is the founder and chief executive officer of Ubuntu Education.
- David is an experienced Headteacher with educational experience in Africa and the UK.
- He understands the nuances that give African education a uniquely exciting flavour on the global education stage.
02:10- What is the meaning of the word Ubuntu? And tell me about the founding of the Ubuntu hub.
- It is a communal type of philosophy based on the idea that we coexist as people and need each other, and we need to work together.
- A lot of the resources are very expensive, so schools in Africa tend not to be able to afford a lot of the professional development or the curriculum design and they aren’t appropriate for the societies and communities of Africa.
- The idea is to tap into those teachers’ experience, knowledge, and wisdom, and allow them the opportunity to share that wisdom with colleagues from around the sub-Saharan African continent.
22:45- What is the most important lesson you have learned from working with educators across Africa?
- The most important lesson is that collaboration is very important in education.
- People who tend to work as individuals and don’t listen to other people end up causing conflict, or they just end up falling behind.
- We have two ears and one mouth, and we should use them in their proportion.
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- David Marriott is the founder and chief executive officer of Ubuntu Education.
- David is an experienced Headteacher with educational experience in Africa and the UK.
- He understands the nuances that give African education a uniquely exciting flavour on the global education stage.
