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Macleans A. Geo-JaJa

Macleans A. Geo-JaJa

Title

Professor

Department

EdLF

Contact Information

Office: 306P MCKB

Phone: 801-422-6072

Email: geo-jaja@byu.edu

Macleans A. Geo-JaJa is Professor of Economics and Education at Brigham Young University, where he directs the Research Program in Rights in Education, Capabilities Deprivation, and Right to Development. He is currently a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellow and a Visiting Research Professor at Zhejiang Normal University, China. He has served as a Carnegie Foundation Fellow for two terms. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Nigerian Think Tank. He serves on numerous journal editorial boards, including the editorial consulting board of International Review of Education a UNESCO journal.   Professor Geo-JaJa is author or co-author of significant tier one journal articles and numerous book chapters He has either authored or co-author numerous articles and book chapters in Education, Poverty, Politics of Education Reforms and Globalization, and Development in sub-Saharan Africa. He has also co-authored four published books in economics, education, and development.

I teach the economics of education, coloniality/modernity in development, capabilities deprivation, and human right in education and development. I also teach courses in human rights in education and comparative international development education.

Research and program work is in rights in education in a number of countries. Human rights in development aid and Education and Globalization. The twinning of rights in education with development to unmask Africa from the shackles of imperialism. My work critically relates culture and right-capability as an anti-development genocide approach. The current niche in research is on rights in education for Africanization ofn development.

  • Fulbright Senior Specialist Award — 2012–2017
    • Sponsor: United States Department and IIE
    • The Fulbright Specialist Program (FSP) promotes linkages between U.S. scholars and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions overseas. The program awards grants to U.S. faculty and professionals approved to join the Specialist Roster in select disciplines to engage in short-term collaborative projects at eligible institutions in over 140 countries worldwide.
  • Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship — 2015
    • Sponsor: The Institute of International Education (IIE)
    • The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (ADF) is a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions. The prestigious Fellowship is offered by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY), to support 100 short-term fellows in disciplines of need. The program exemplifies CCNY’s enduring commitment to higher education in Africa.

Quality teachers for outcome optimization: A review of school input-output functionality

Publisher: Springer Academic Publishers

Editors: Joseph Zajda et al.

City: Amsterdam

Country: The Netherlands

Issue: 4th Edition

Journal: Quality teachers for outcome optimization: a review of school input-output functionality The Globalization, Education, and Policy Research,

Date: 2023

Unsettled Liberation and Uncertain Times: Education and Globalization Shaping Divergence,

Publisher: James Nicholas Publishers

City: Melbourne, VIC, 3205, Australia.

Country: Australia

Journal: International Journal of Political Crossroad

Date: 2022

Differentiated” development in the era of coloniality: Is it possible?

Publisher: James Nicholas Publishers

City: Australian Catholic University

Country: Australia

Volume: Accepted for Publication December 2022. Forthcoming

Journal: World Studies in Education

Date: 2022

“Differentiated” development in the era of coloniality: Is it possible?

Publisher: James Nicholas Publishers

Editors: Joseph Zajda

City: Victoria 3206

Country: Australia

Pages: 25 pages

Journal: World Studies in Education

Date: 2022

Unsettled liberation and uncertain times: education and globalization shaping divergence

Publisher: James Nicholas Publishers

Editors: Joseph Zajda

City: Victoria 3206

Country: Australia

Pages: 22 pages

Journal: International Journal of Political Crossroad

Date: 2022

Globalization and coloniality of education and unmaking development in Africa

Publisher: Springer Nature BV Publishers

Editors: Joseph Zajda

City: Amsterdam: The Netherlands

Country: The Netherland

Pages: Geo-JaJa, M. A. (Forthcoming 2020) Globalization and coloniality of education and unmaking development in Africa, In Zajda, Joseph (Ed.) International Handbook on Globalization, Education and Policy Research, Springer Nature BV Publishers A

Journal: International Handbook on Globalization, Education and Policy Research

Date: 2020

Globalization and coloniality of education and development in Africa

Country: Australia

Volume: 24

Issue: 1

Pages: 39-57.

Journal: International Journal of Political Crossroads,

Date: 2020

The Promise and Pitfalls of Development Aid: The Elusive Goal of Aid that Helps People to Help Themselves.

Country: Australia

Volume: 18

Issue: 1

Journal: World Studies in Education

Date: 2017

Human Rights in Development Aid for STEM Education in Nigerian Languages

Publisher: Sense Publishers

Editors: Zehlia Wilhite, Babaci

City: Sense Publishers , Rotterdam

Country: The Netherlands

Journal: Human Rights in Language and STEM Education Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Date: 2015

Education Localization for Optimizing Globalization’s Opportunities and Challenges in Africa

Publisher: Sense Publishers

Editors: Majhanovich, S. & Geo-JaJa, M. A

City: Rotterdam

Country: Netherlands

Journal: Economics, Aid and Education

Date: 2013

Localization of instruction as a right in education: Tanzania and Nigeria language-in-education´s policies.

Publisher: Sense Publishers

Editors: Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite

City: Rotterdam

Country: Germany

Journal: Giving Space to African Voices: Right in local languages and local curriculum.

Date: 2013

Human rights in development aid: Nordic case for education in Tanzania.

Publisher: Information Age Publishing

Editors: Elinor L. Brown, Paul C. Gorski, Gabriella Lazaridis

City: North Carolina

Country: USA

Journal: Intersection of Poverty, Class, and Schooling Global Perspectives on Economic Justice and Educational Equity,

Date: 2013

ECONOMICS, AID AND EDUCATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT

Publisher: Sense Publishers

Editors: Majhanovich, S. & Geo-JaJa, M. A

City: Rotterdam

Country: Netherlands

Journal: ECONOMICS, AID AND EDUCATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT

Date: 2013

Education, Economics and Sustainable Development

Publisher: Sense Publishers

Editors: Majhanovich, S. & Geo-JaJa, M. A.

City: Rotterdam

Country: Netherlands.

Journal: Education, Economics and Sustainable Development

Date: 2013

Nordic aid and the education sector in Africa: The case of Tanzania

Publisher: Springer

Editors: Carolyn A. Brown

Journal: Globalization, international education policy, and local policy formation.

Date: 2012

Education and language: A human right for sustainable development in Africa.

Publisher: UNESCO

City: Hamberg

Country: German

Volume: DOI: 10.1007/s11159-012-9311-7

Journal: International Review of Education

Date: 2012

Human Rights in Development Experience in Africa: The Foreign Aid and Policy Nexus in OECD and China Aid

Publisher: James Nicholus

City: Australia

Country: Australia

Volume: 13

Issue: 1

Journal: World Studies in Education Journal

Date: 2012

A Critique and Rethink of Modern Education in Africa’s Development in the 21st Century

City: Dar es Salaam

Country: Tanzania

Volume: 30

Journal: Education and Development(PED)-Journal.

Date: 2011

Trapped in Resettlement: What Integration for the Refugees in Utah?

Publisher: Routledge Publishers .

Editors: Korinek, K., and Maloney, T.

Journal: Migration in the 21st century rights, outcomes, and policy

Date: 2009

Policy, Politics and economics in comparative Education

Publisher: Sense Publishers

Editors: Geo-JaJa, M. A and Majhanovich, S.

City: Rotterdam

Country: Germany

Journal: Policy, Politics and economics in comparative Education

Date: 2009

TVET in Nigeria: Issues, Concerns and New Directions in the 21st Century

Publisher: Sense Publishers.

Editors: Masemann, V., and Majhanovich, S.

City: Rotterdam

Country: Germany

Journal: Papers in Memory of David N. Wilson: Clamouring for a Better World.

Date: 2009

Economic growth without human security and quality education in the Niger Delta: The question of inadequacy of policy. In Geo-JaJa, M. A and Majhanovich, S. (Eds.) Policy, Politics and Economics in Comparative Education,

Publisher: Sense Publishers.

Editors: Geo-JaJa, M. A and Majhanovich, S.

City: Rotterdam

Country: Germany

Journal: Policy, Politics and Economics in Comparative Education

Date: 2009

Women and Natural Resources Management: Its Implications for Sustainable Development in Africa

Publisher: Ghana University Press

Editors: Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf and Janet Momsen

City: Accra

Country: Ghana

Journal: Gender the Sate and Different Environmental Places: Perspectives from Developing Countries in Africa and Asia

Date: 2009

Social Exclusion, Poverty and Educational Inequity in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: Which Development Framework

Publisher: Springer Publishers

Editors: Zajda, Joseph, & Geo-JaJa, M. A

City: Dordrecht, Germany

Country: Germany

Journal: The Politics of Education Reforms: Globalization, Comparative Education and Policy Research

The Politics of Education Reforms: Globalization, Comparative Education and Policy Research

Publisher: Springer Publishers

City: Dordrecht

Country: Germany

Journal: The Politics of Education Reforms: Globalization, Comparative Education and Policy Research

From right to education to rights in education: A dialogical roadmap for autonomy development,

Publisher: Sense Publishers

Editors: Geo-JaJa, Macleans A. & Majhanovich, Suzanne (Eds.)

City: Rotterdam

Country: The Netherlands

Journal: Effects of Globalization on Education Systems and Development: Debate and Issues

Words of our leaders ideas of our nation: Selected speeches and writings in Nigerian history

Publisher: The New Nigerian Publishers

Editors: Farakwai, M., Karasuwa, A, & Geo-JaJa, M. A

City: Kaduna

Country: Nigeria

Pages: 1-42

Journal: Words of our leaders ideas of our nation: Selected speeches and writings in Nigerian history

ISBN: 978-7079-33-4

China’s aid to Africa: Competitor or alternative to the OECD aid architecture?

Volume: 48

Issue: 8

Pages: 729-743

Journal: International Journal of Social Economics