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Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa

Lecturer

School of Education

Educational Foundations, Management and Lifelong Learning

Biography

Ntimi N. Mtawa is a Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, School of Education, Depart of Educational Foundations Management & Lifelong Learning, School of Education, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and a Research Fellow at the Higher Education and Human Development Research Group, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. His teaching, research and consultancy works focus on education leadership and management, policy, education governance, higher education and society with particular emphasis on university-community engagement and service-learning. He has interest on issues of education management, leadership and policies, knowledge production, decolonisation, innovation, academic freedom and activism. 

Research Interest

Mtawa's research interest focuses on higher education, higher education and development, education management and leadership, education governance, policy issues, and education and human development. 

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Anangisye, W. A., Mtawa, N. N., & Xu, M. (2026). Examining mutual resilience in South–South cooperation: the China-Tanzania educational partnership. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 1-22. DOI: 10.1080/02188791.2026.2683453. 

Mtawa, N.N, Ishumi, G.M & Sarakikya, A.M. (2026). The Evolution and Influence of Medieval University Models on the Character and Development of Higher Education in East Africa. In African University from Medieval to Post-Modern. doi:10.1108/978-1-83742-067-420261004. 

Ngalomba, S.P., Mtawa, N., & Mtafwali, B. (2026). Confronting Barriers to Inclusion for Students With Visual Impairment in Tanzania’s Distance Learning University. SAGE Open.  https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440261476218.

Mtawa, N, Ndivo, L & Adamson, L. (2025). The Role of Language(s) in Transformative Higher Education in Africa: A Capabilities Perspective. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. 

Mtawa, N. N., Kahangwa, G. L., & Ngidos, L. S. (2025). The conundrum of academic freedom in Africa: can academics in contexts such as Tanzania have absolute academic freedom? South African Journal of Higher Education. https://dx.doi.org/10.20853/39-4-7508.

Mtawa, N.N. (2019). Human Development and Community Engagement through Service- Learning: The Capability Approach and Common Good in Education. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34728-4.

Fongwa, S., Luescher, T., Mtawa, N., & Mataga, J. (2022).Universities, Society and Development: African Perspectives of University Community Engagement in Secondary Cities. SUNMEDIA.

Mtawa, N.N., Fongwa, N.S., & Wangenge, G.O. (2016). The scholarship of university- community engagement: Interrogating Boyer’s model. International Journal of Educational Development. 

Mtawa, N., & Wilson-Strydom, M. (2018). Community Service-Learning: Pedagogy at the interface of poverty, power and privilege. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, special issues: Communities and Capabilities. 

Mtawa, N., Fongwa, NS., & Wilson-Strydom, M. (2019). Enhancing graduate employability attributes and capabilities formation: A service-learning approach. Teaching in Higher Education. 

Ntimi N. Mtawa & Nelson Masanche Nkhoma (2020) Service-learning as a higher education pedagogy for advancing citizenship, conscientization and civic agency: a capability informed view, Higher Education Pedagogies.

Mtawa, N., & Fongwa, S.N. (2020). Experiencing Service-Learning partnership: AHuman Development Perspective of community members. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice. 

Mtawa, N., & Wangenge-Ouma, G. (2022). Questioning private good driven university- community engagement: a Tanzanian case study. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00685-9. 

Fongwa, S.N., & Mtawa, N.N. (2022). University community engagement: From narrow conception towards a multidimensional framing. In Fongwa, S.N., Luescher, T.M, Mtawa, N.N., & Mtaga, J. (Eds.) Universities, Society and Development: African Perspective of University Community Engagement in Secondary Cities. SUN MEDIA. 

Mtawa, N.N. (2022). A collective agency approach to university-community engagement partnerships. In Fongwa, S.N., Luescher, T.M, Mtawa, N.N., & Mtaga, J. (Eds.) Universities, Society and Development: African Perspective of University Community Engagement in Secondary Cities. SUN MEDIA.

Mtawa, N. (2022). Using Partial Justice to Interrogate the Meanings and Applications of Social Justice in Service-Learning. CriSTaL - Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning. DOI: 10.14426/cristal.v10i2.551. 

Cooper, A., & Mtawa, NN (2022) Comment on Yunus Ballim’s “The place of teaching, learning and student development in a framework of academic freedom: Attending to the negative freedoms of our students”, Journal of Education. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2520-9868/i89a11