445 research outputs found
Lessons Learned: Building Stronger Universities, Transforming and Transitions:Education as a Driver for Development
No full textThis chapter examines the lessons learned from research on educational transforma-tion conducted within the Building Stronger Universities project. BSU – GU is a long-term collaboration between the University of Gulu in Uganda and Danish universities.The project aims to transform education as a driver of community development innorthern Uganda. Education must change as society develops, and education is animportant vehicle for development. This chapter explores the successes and challenges presented in this edited volume on transforming education. It highlights the importance of continuing dialogue and research on decolonising education, addressing systemic inequalities and promoting local knowledge systems. The findings emphasise that to create more equitable, inclusive and empowering learning environments, the advancement of human actors, together with collaborative, interdisciplinary research, participatory methodologies, problem-based learning and digital technologies, can make a valuable contribution
Transforming Higher Education for Community Development
No full textThis volume explores educational transformation as a tool for community development in northern Uganda, with an emphasis on student-centred, hybrid and problem-based learning. It addresses key questions about existing education systems, the need for transformation, desired outcomes and foreseeable challenges. The introductory chapter contextualises the reforms within Uganda's colonial history, while subsequent chapters analyse institutional practices, curriculum design, quality of education and innovation in teaching and learning. The book argues for new participatory learning infrastructures, real-world problems and curricular entrepreneurship to enhance graduates' employability and position them as active contributors to community development. The book is the result of a long-term partnership between universities. Contributors are: Rozalba Aciro, Agatha Alidri, Helen Christine Waiswa Amongin, Adebua Asaf, Judith Awacorach, Jerry Bagaya, Peter Kakubeire Baguma, Abola Benard, Ann Bygholm, Helene Balslev Clausen, Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Betty Akullu Ezati, Cornelia Thea Seger Jakobsen, Iben Jensen, Annebeth Colic Landsvig, Inger Lassen, Stephen Odama, Denis Ofoyuru, Collins Okello, Charles Nelson Okumu, John Bismarck Okumu, David Ross Olanya, David Onen, Joseph Oonyu, George Ladaah Openjuru, George Orangi, Palle Rasmussen, Arne Remmen, Frida Skovgaard Sørensen, Geoffery Olok Tabo, Wycliffe Scot Wafula and Hanan Lassen Zakaria
Transforming Higher Education for Community Development
No full textThis volume explores educational transformation as a tool for community development in northern Uganda, with an emphasis on student-centred, hybrid and problem-based learning. It addresses key questions about existing education systems, the need for transformation, desired outcomes and foreseeable challenges. The introductory chapter contextualises the reforms within Uganda's colonial history, while subsequent chapters analyse institutional practices, curriculum design, quality of education and innovation in teaching and learning. The book argues for new participatory learning infrastructures, real-world problems and curricular entrepreneurship to enhance graduates' employability and position them as active contributors to community development. The book is the result of a long-term partnership between universities. Contributors are: Rozalba Aciro, Agatha Alidri, Helen Christine Waiswa Amongin, Adebua Asaf, Judith Awacorach, Jerry Bagaya, Peter Kakubeire Baguma, Abola Benard, Ann Bygholm, Helene Balslev Clausen, Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Betty Akullu Ezati, Cornelia Thea Seger Jakobsen, Iben Jensen, Annebeth Colic Landsvig, Inger Lassen, Stephen Odama, Denis Ofoyuru, Collins Okello, Charles Nelson Okumu, John Bismarck Okumu, David Ross Olanya, David Onen, Joseph Oonyu, George Ladaah Openjuru, George Orangi, Palle Rasmussen, Arne Remmen, Frida Skovgaard Sørensen, Geoffery Olok Tabo, Wycliffe Scot Wafula and Hanan Lassen Zakaria
Introducing Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in MA Programmes at Gulu University for Community Transformation: Reflections and Lesson
No full textTowards transforming Higher Education
Full text linkThe importance of education and quality learning for all is evident in the Sustainable Development Goal framework that aims at ending poverty, ensuring equality and providing decent work for all. Social reformers across the world have worked towards this widely shared aspiration for a long time; however, it has turned out to be a goal that has met many challenges. Situated in the Acoli Sub-Region, a rural poverty-ridden area in Northern Uganda, Gulu University has made a commitment towards this goal by preparing students for employability in future jobs through community engagement. The focus of the reform is on student-based learning assisted by the teacher, and hybrid learning with critical input from problem-based learning. However, educational reform requires deeper reflection on the design and implementation of education systems in search of qualified solutions to problems concerning teaching and learning performance in higher education. In this introduction we contribute to the discussion by critically exploring how to transform teaching and learning to accomplish the goal of community engagement. Methodologically, we draw on literature from within the higher education sector with a specific focus on how scholars have worked to address challenges of current systems. We also draw on our research and experience in implementing 10 years of teaching and research capacity building at Gulu University as documented in articles in this volume
At grave og at skrive
Full text linkTo dig and to write: Author questions the concept of basic archive reports and argues that the pyramidal working structure of archaeology must be demolished. Drawings by Inger Karlberg
“He beat her so hard she fell head over heels”: Normalising wife abuse in Colombia
No full textThis chapter.focuses on the discursive strategy of normalisation as one way wife abuse is legitimated in Colombia, exploring specific cultural aspects of this strategy and relating them to a more universal patriarchal ideology about violence against women. This study lies at the intersection of research concerning violence against women, discourse analysis, and Colombian culture. Critical discourse analysjs (van Dijk 1993, 2001) and grounded theory (Corbin and Strauss 2008) are brought together to form a methodology for examining the legitimation (Pardo Abril2007; van Leeuwen 2007) of violence against women in newspaper internet forums. The data set consists of internet forum discussions in the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo about a case of wife abuse. Drawing on sayings, metaphors, euphemisms, and jokes, this chapter shows how wife abuse is normalised in these El Tiempo forums. The postings employ discourses which suggest that violence is an acceptable and even important part of intimate partner relationships. The data analysed in this chapter elucidates part of an ideology in which masculinity is linked to authority, abuse is related to love, and suffering is part of femininity, in this way illustrating the connection between a centuries-old patriarchal ideology (Fernandez Poncela 2002) and the normalisation of wife_ abuse in contemporary Colombian society
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