ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the challenges and potential of using photography in a cross-cultural research project. Sudan and South Africa are the only countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to determine photography teaching at the primary level should become a graduate profession and have taken steps towards making this a reality. In the 1990s the Sudanese Ministry of Education implemented a range of initiatives designed to improve the quality of education, raise the status of teaching, and bring the curriculum in line with Islamic ideals and principles. The Open University of Sudan (OUS) was set up to facilitate the upgrading to graduate level of 140,000 primary school teachers through distance learning; 50 per cent of these teachers had no prior formal teaching qualification. Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) is a multi-country consortium of institutions involved in the provision of teacher education and professional development.
