Learning citizenship?
Philosophical pragmatism meets lived experiences in Tanzania and Uganda
Conference centre Paasitorni, Paasivuorenkatu 5 A
Friday 7th June 2019, 9-16
9:00
Opening: Principal Investigator, Professor Katariina Holma, University of Oulu
9:15
Invited speech: Education and individual political agency in Uganda.
Dr. Simone Datzberger, Assistant Professor in Education and International Development, UCL Institute of Education, London
10:00
Presentation: Learning citizenship in civil society: Lessons from GROW
Professor Katariina Holma and Academy Research Fellow Tiina Kontinen, University of Jyväskylä
Discussion
11:00 Comments on relevance
-Senior Officer Anu Ala-Rantala, Unit for Civil Society, Department for Development Policy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
-Programme Manager Mikko Ylikangas, DEVELOP, Academy of Finland
12:00
Lunch
13:00 Comments on academic contributions
-University Lecturer Eija Ranta, Development Studies, University of Helsinki
-Professor emeritus, Reijo Miettinen, Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
General discussion
Poster exhibition in the Aula. Authors present their chapters in a forthcoming book:
Practices of Citizenship in East Africa: Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism.
-Rydenfelt: Pragmatism, social inquiry and the method of democracy
-Kauppi & Holma: John Dewey’s notion of social intelligence
-Nguyahambi & Chang’a: Social accountability monitoring as an approach for promoting active citizenship in Tanzania
-Kilonzo & al.: Habits of contributing citizenship: Self-help groups in rural Tanzania
-Nguyahambi & Kontinen:
“A good believer is a good citizen”: Connecting Islamic morals with civic virtues in rural Tanzania
-Ahimbisibwe at al.: Participatory methodology in exploring citizenship: A critical learning process
-Bananuka & John: The crafting of ‘critical education’: experiences of a Ugandan NGO
-Ndidde et al.:
Gendered citizenship in rural Uganda: Localized, Exclusive and Active
-Kontinen
& Ndidde: Learning in a Ugandan gender advocacy NGO: Organizational growth and institutional wrestling
-Alava: The everyday and spectacle of subdued citizenship in northern Uganda
15:15
Coffee
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