Lecturer and Coordinator of the Center for Didactics and Research in Education (CEDRE)

Protestant University of Rwanda, (PUR /PIASS), P.O. Box 619, Butare, Huye. [email protected] / [email protected]

 

Research Areas

Educational Quality, Conflict and Peace Education, Global Education, Decolonisation and Post-Colonial Systems, Teacher Training and Professional Development, Gender and Development

 

Qualification and Career

2021 – present        Director of the Centre for Didactics /Quality Education Consultant /Lecturer Protestant University of Rwanda (PUR /PIASS)      

2019 – 2021           Research/Student Aid/Facilitator, University of Bamberg, Germany

2018 – 2021            Online Adjunct Senior Facilitator, Philanthropy University, USA

2017 – 2021            Ph.D. Research Fellow in Foundations of Education and Educational Science at the University of Bamberg

2014 – 2017            Head of Department, Senior Counsellor Teacher Educator, ISTP Presbyterian Secondary School (PSS) Nkwen

2013 – 2015            Student in the Master of Education Programme for Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa (IMPEQ9          

2012 – 2014            Senior Pedagogic Adviser / Teacher Educator, ISTP Presbyterian Secondary School (PSS) Mankon

2011 – 2012           In- Service Training with the Pedagogic In-Service Training Programme (ISTP) on Secondary School Didactics                   

2005-2011,             Coordinator of the Social Science Department, Presbyterian Comprehensive Secondary School (PCSS) Buea

2001 – 2005            Boarding Administrator, Presbyterian High School (PHS) Kumba        

                              

Awards

2023                       Bursary from Brot für de Welt

2020                       Award of a Professional Badge as Facilitator of the Philanthropy University, USA

2017                       Bursary from Brot füt de Welt

2015                       Best all round teacher award from the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon

 

Publications (most important)

Tangwe, A. T. (2017). School Discipline: Alternatives to Corporal Punishment. ZEP: Zeitschrift Für Internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik, 40(2), 9–13. https://doi.org/10.25656/01:16961

Tangwe, A. T. (2022). School Violence and Open Spaces for Learning in Cameroon. American Journal of Educational Research, 10(2), 85–98. https://doi.org/10.12691/education-10-2-3

Tangwe, A. T. (2023). Peace Education in the Absence of Violence as a Foundation of Learning. International Journal of Contemporary Education, 6(1), 2575–3185. https://doi.org/10.11114/ijce.v6i1.5795

Tangwe, T. A. (2023). Sexual Violence. Inadequate Reporting of a Silent Scourge in Secondary Schools in Cameroon. World Journal of Educational Research, 10(1), 46–59. https://doi.org/10.22158/wjer.v10n1p43

Tangwe, A. T., Ntakirutimana, E. & Niyibizi, E. (2023). Education for Women Empowerment: Perceptions and Experiences of Female University Graduates in Rwanda. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 10(9), 302–317. https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.109.15536

Tangwe. A. T. & Benyin, P. K (2025).  Reimagining Critical Interdisciplinarity. Shifting from the Traditional to the Transformative Paradigm in Higher Education Research and Learning. International Journal of Scientific and Management Research 8(1), 62-91. http://doi.org/10.37502/IJSMR.2025.8104

Tangwe A. T.& Nizeyumukiza, J. (2025). Digitalization for Equity and Inclusion: Fostering Sustainability in Education. Journal of Higher Education and Learning, 2(1), 20-37. www.stslpress.org/journal/jhel