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Dr. Abdoul Coulibaly
Republic of Mali

Biography :
Dr. Coulibaly is a researcher and evaluator in education at the Institut Pedagogique National in his home country. He completed his bachelor degree in TEFL at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Mali) in 1979 and received his Masters degree and PhD in Educational Administration respectively in 1996 and 1999 from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Coulibaly holds certificates in Advanced English and teaching English as a Communicative Language from the University of Lancaster (UK) and a certificate in  History from East Central University at Ada (UK). He taught as a secondary schoool teacher and worked as an assistant professor at the department of English at the University of Mali. Dr. Coulibaly is a consultant for UNESCO-IICBA (Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia).

His interests are gender education, educational leadership, and non formal education. He likes reading, music, and travelling.

He can be reached at:

Institut Pedagogique National. BP 1583.
Bamako, Rep. of Mali (West  Africa).
Tel: 223-22-42-62.
E-mail: awc68@hotmail.com

Synopsis : Dr. Coulibaly's presentation centers around the background and current status of the educational system in Mali. He focuses on using Educational Centers for Development (ECDs) as an alternative form of basic education.

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