Webinaires Global Mental Health webinar series / Série de webinaires sur la santé mentale mondiale
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Collaboration (TAAAC), un partenariat entre les universités de Toronto et d’Addis-Abeba, conçu pour répondre au besoin urgent et croissant de professeurs, dans un contexte d’expansion des universités en Ethiopie. À mesure que le TAAAC s’est développé, les professeurs des deux institutions ont éprouvé la nécessité de clarifier les postulats qui sous-tendent ce projet commun. Il est donc essentiel de traiter les questions implicites concernant la propriété du curriculum, la prise de décision, le contrôle, l’expertise et le financement, qui déterminent la nature des partenariats internationaux en matière de formation. Le TAAAC tente d’évoluer vers des formes égalitaires d’échange de connaissances et de partenariat. Nous présenterons ce partenariat, ainsi que les enseignements tirés des 16 années de travail en commun mené dans nos deux institutions.
Enabling high quality health professions education is key to ensuring high quality healthcare globally. Partnerships between academic health sciences centers in high resource and low resourced settings are often formed as attempts to address healthcare disparities. As we enter such collaborative relationships, it is impossible to ignore the colonial legacies that created the inequities everyone is trying to overcome. We describe the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC), an educational partnership between the University of Toronto and Addis Ababa University (AAU), designed to help address an urgent need for current and increased university faculty to teach in the massive expansion of universities in Ethiopia. As TAAAC has developed and expanded, faculty at both institutions have recognized the need for clarity about the assumptions that underpin this shared work. Thus addressing implicit issues of curriculum ownership, decision-making, control, expertise and funding that influence the nature of international educational partnerships is essential. TAAAC attempts to move towards egalitarian forms of knowledge exchange and partnership. We will describe the partnership and draw out lessons we have learned from our 16 years of work across our two institutions.
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20 novembre (9:00-10:00 ET)
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