The Center for Instructional Innovation and Mathematical Resilience (CIIMR) is a flagship academic and research initiative of Chuka University, housed within the Faculty of Education & Resources Development.
The Centre is established to advance evidence-based pedagogical innovation, strengthen teacher professional practice and improve learning outcomes through collaborative research, capacity building and community-based learning partnerships.
The Center represents Chuka University’s strategic commitment to enhancing mathematical resilience in learners through research, innovation and collaboration.
The Centre specifically seeks to safeguard learners against long-term mathematics anxiety, empower teachers and contribute meaningfully to national, regional and global conversations on instructional excellence and learner resilience.
CIIMR is a collaborative international venture spearheaded by Professor Sue Johnston Wilder of the University of Warwick and Professor Rosalind Weir McLellan of the University of Cambridge, both internationally recognized scholars for their seminal work on mathematics anxiety and mathematical resilience.
The collaboration is supported through close academic linkage with Dr. Harrison Njaru Mbogo, a researcher at the University of Cambridge whose work focuses on mathematical anxiety and resilience and who serves as the key liaison and link person for the partnership.
The core focus of this collaboration is to understand the nature, prevalence and manifestations of mathematics anxiety among learners in Kenya and to co-design culturally responsive and context-specific interventions.
The Centre emphasizes participatory research approaches that bring together researchers, teachers, school leaders and communities to generate solutions that are both scientifically grounded and locally meaningful.
Through CIIMR, Chuka University is poised to be positioned as a Sub-Saharan Africa hub for mathematical resilience research and practice.
This center will be grounded on the global mathematical resilience network applying the Mathematical Resilience Framework across diverse contexts.
