Rakhat Zholdoshalvieva
Rakhat is Team Leader of the Quality Learning Ecosystems programme at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Hamburg, Germany.
Formerly a teacher educator in her native Kyrgyzstan and later in Pakistan, Rakhat currently works as a Team Leader of the Quality Learning Ecosystems Programme at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in Hamburg, Germany. Before joining UIL, she worked with the Deputy Ministry for Literacy of the Ministry of Education in Afghanistan. In this capacity, she contributed to the capacity development of curriculum designers and textbook writers and managed the development of new early literacy and numeracy textbooks for youth and adults. Rakhat holds a doctorate in education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada, and a master’s degree from the Institute for Educational Development at Aga Khan University, Pakistan. Rakhat and her team coordinate the Secretariat of the Global Alliance for Literacy, a global network of 30 countries and 14 associate members, to advocate for literacy at the global level. She is currently co-editing a book on family literacy and learning from an international perspective with Professor Esther Prins of the Pennsylvania State University, USA.
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