*sorry for the cross-posting*
Research project Growth into Citizenship in Civil Society
Encounters<https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/yfi/en/research/projects/political-institutions/Grow>
(GROW), funded by the Academy of Finland (2015-2019) conducts a final seminar and welcomes
researchers, students, policy-makers, civil society actors and other interested public to
join.
Date: Friday the 7th June 2019
Venue: Congress Centre Paasitorni, Paasivuorenkatu 5 A, Helsinki
Time: 9-16
The number of participants is restricted to 40; please
register<https://email.jyu.fi/owa/Register%20here%21> by the 15th May 2019.
PROGRAMME
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 (exact time tbc) 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
Welcome! Registration in advance is required by the 15th May 2019.
Register
here!<https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/317A05A7C3B0BA04>
Tiina Kontinen, PhD
Academy of Finland Research Fellow
Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy
P.O.Box 35
40014 UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
FINLAND
email: tiina.t.kontinen@jyu.fi<mailto:tiina.t.kontinen@jyu.fi>
Please visit my
webpage<https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/yfi/en/staff/kontinen-tiina> for
further information.