We Are Teachers: MALAWI

We Are Teachers was a participatory video project made by rural teachers in Blantyre, Southern Malawi. This project involved piloting the use of participatory video (PV) with teachers who had graduated from an innovative teacher preparation programme in Malawi in order to create a generation of highly skilled educators who were trained in becoming agents of change in rural communities.

The programme has been developed to promote and facilitate teacher voice and to provide teachers with the tools to expand life-opportunities for themselves, their students and their communities.

This project was an opportunity to explore the emerging interest in using mobile, low-cost kit (for example mobile phones and tablets) in PV practise and provided insights into how PV could be used more effectively, more pragmatically and more inclusively in low-income countries.

“We have made a film and this film is really a film that will educate a number of people and will make people know how education standards are in Malawi, and how teachers, children and the community are co-operating in the school activities. This is a very good film that one has to watch.”

– Henry Joseph NG’ombe, teacher and participant.

“This film will help a lot, both the learners, teachers and the community – they’ll be looking at this film forever.”
– Michaeil Nyando, head-teacher & participant

Watch a Subtitled version
Watch the Project evaluation film

This project was a collaboration between the Open University, Catcher Media, Humana People to People and its local member organisation, DAPP Malawi.

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Project Blog HERE

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