Webinar: Adult and Community Education (ACE) as Socially Engaged Scholarship
22 August 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 | Cape Town
Webinar
Adult and Community Education (ACE) as Socially Engaged Scholarship
SPEAKER: Ivor Baatjes (Canon Collins Trust)
This webinar focuses on the work of scholars in South Africa and selected case studies on the continent. The focus of this webinar is to engage adult educators, scholars and activists in a conversation about the value of adult education as socially engaged scholarship. Here is a reading that you may find insightful in relation to the topic.
Date: 22 August 2024
Time: 14:00 – 15:30 (SAST) / 15:00 - 16:30 (EAT)
ABOUT THE MOJA – AEHEAN Webinar Series
MOJA, in conversation with adult educators in higher education in Africa, established a network that brings together scholars based in universities across Africa. The idea is that this network (AEHEAN) would grow across all the different regions of the continent. The main purpose of the network is to build relationships, partnerships and solidarity in adult education on the continent.
MOJA intends to facilitate and convene a series of webinar discussions. The purpose of these webinars is to support the development of the intellectual and practical capabilities of educators and their associates involved in activities relating to the study and practice of community-based learning and education on the African continent. MOJA's intention is to provide opportunities for such learning through developing the network amongst those who are involved and in the hope that the network will itself be generative of further development of these issues. MOJA believes that such a network will support the work of educators in the field, could influence their ideas and practices, their institutions and influence policymakers in this area. Most importantly it would strengthen the work of adult and community education where it is practised.
The purpose of the webinar series is:
- To stimulate a discussion about the relationship between learning, engaged scholarship and community-based education in the context of the development (or under-development) and history of the African continent.
- to provide an opportunity to educators in the higher education system drawn from countries in Africa to discuss issues which are pertinent to the work in relation to the issues referred to above.
- to stimulate a greater awareness of the contextual challenges facing communities and learning in such a context.
- to stimulate the development of thinking and the production of engaged scholarly and other forms of writing relating to these issues.
- to unearth useful writings and other materials, such as podcasts, webinars, and audio-visual materials which would be useful for the further development of an understanding of these issues.
MOJA will invite presenters who are familiar with and have experience in this area of work and distribute materials which are relevant to each webinar discussion to enable participants to engage with such materials in preparation for the webinars.
To support the purpose outlined above, MOJA is initiating a series of 3 webinars. These webinars will be facilitated by MOJA and its associates and will be rolled out over a period of 3 months. Following these, consideration will be given to the extension of the webinar series around topics that are relevant to and emerge from the initial group of webinars.
Key words associated with presentations: political economy; adult education; community education; socially-engaged scholarship; alternatives; social change; social justice; solidarity; praxis; co-constructed knowledge; climate change; community needs systems; livelihoods.
UPCOMING WEBINARS
Webinar 2: On the history and political economy of adult education in Africa
A discussion with Yao Graham (Ghana)
Dr Graham will situate the context in which Education in general and Adult Education in particular is affected by the political economy of Africa, by reference to its many and complex historical and contemporary challenges and contradictions.
Date: 4 September 2024
Time: 14:00
Webinar 3: Building alternatives through socially-useful and engaged scholarship
Enver Motala and Irna Senekal (South Africa)
Date: 10 October 2024
Time: 14:00
The presenters will address the most important challenges presented by the multi-dimensional crises facing (especially) communities that are socially marginalised, examine how they are responding to these challenges and explain what these responses mean for an alternative social system that aspires to building a genuinely democratic and humane society.
Cost
Free
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MOJA Journal: The Role of Adult Learning and Education in Transforming Lives and Livelihoods
Join us for this webinar, where our MOJA Journal contributors will share insights on their articles: ‘Urban agriculture: A silent revolution’ and ‘From a quest for well-being to an entrepreneurial passion: My saffron learning journey’
- Presenters: Abdelhakim Zidi and Keltouma Adouane
- Date: 4 December 2025
- time: 14:00 -15:30 (SAST) / 12:00 – 13:30 (UTC)
English/French
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