Educational Transformation for ensuring equity and inclusion
Profile of Professor M. Tariq Ahsan, PhD
Phone: +880-1711351685Profile Web: http://www.du.ac.bd/faculty/faculty_details/IER/909
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Mohammad
Tariq Ahsan has been working at the Institute of Education and Research (IER)
of the University of Dhaka since 2001. Tariq completed his PhD on teacher
preparation for inclusion in education from Monash University, Australia in
2015 under the Australian Government’s prestigious Australian Leadership Awards
(ALAs) proogramme. He did a Master’s from the Flinders University of South
Australia in 2004-05 under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS)
programme. He has another Master’s on Education and a Bachelor of Education
(Honours) degree with high achievement and merit position from the IER,
University of Dhaka. Tariq served as the Chairman of the Department of Special
Education and Inclusion at IER, University of Dhaka in 2006-2007. Though Dr.
Ahsan’s academic career is based in Bangladesh, he put his footsteps regionally
and internationally in the areas of Educational Change and Pedagogical Reform towards
transformative skills, Digital Transformation in Education, Equity and
Inclusion in education, and Teacher preparation for futuristic education
through his research, teaching, policy reform initiatives, advocacy and
networking. Dr. Ahsan’s diversified career journey represents some unique and
solid contribution in the following areas
Educational Transformation for ensuring equity and inclusion
One significant area of Tariq’s expertise is educational transformation for ensuring equity and inclusion in education in the Asia Pacific region and beyond. He is one of the pioneers who promoted the concept of educational transformation for equity and inclusion in Bangladesh and Asia-Pacific Region. Tariq is also contributing at the Asian regions and international levels through various initiatives. He is the Secretary General of the “Asian Centre for Inclusive Education” and through this platform he organized six successful international conferences in the Asia Pacific Region and in North America. As a Gender and Inclusion expert in the IER, Dhaka University, Tariq was the significant contributor in applying and winning the funding of 1,196,300 CAD for a Five Country (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Vietnam and Timor-Leste) collaborative research project in 2021 titled “Impact of Gender and Inclusive Pedagogies (GIP) on Student Participation and Learning Achievement at Secondary School during the Pandemic and Beyond”. Dr. Ahsan was engaged in preparing University faculty of those five countries on transforming education through GIP approach. Tariq was involved in an international project on “Inclusive Education in Asian Countries‟ at Monash University, Australia that was funded by the AusAID. Tariq is the founding editor of an international journal titled “Asian Journal of Inclusive Education”. Since his very early career Tariq played an important role as the ‘Co-Convener of the Inclusive Education Core group’ and worked with the UNESCO Regional office in Bangkok for developing the Inclusive Learning Friendly Environment (ILFE) toolkit for the teachers for the Asia-Pacific region. He developed the Conceptual Frame for Inclusive Education for the Bangladesh Government’s Primary Education Development Programme phase-3 (PEDP 3) in collaboration with UNICEF and played role of an advisor in the PEDP 4 in collaboration with USAID. Tariq also supported many international NGOs (i.e. Plan International Bangladesh, Save the Children, CBM, VSO, ADD, ActionAID Bangladesh) and many national NGOs (i.e. BRAC, CDD, CSID, DRRA, CRP, Sisimpur) for promoting equity and inclusion in education. These contributions raised a huge amount of national, organizational and development partner/donor funding in Bangladesh.