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Preliminary programme Friday 19 May 2017 |
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Downstairs |
Upstairs |
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8:00-9:00 |
Registration + Tea and coffee |
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9:00-9:10 9.10-9.40 |
Welcome: Susana Menéndez (HHS/THUAS) Introduction to the conference theme: Jos Walenkamp |
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9:40-10:30 |
Plenary keynote: The challenges of achieving quality in engineering education in Africa Goolam Mohamedbhai Chair: Beer Schröder |
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10:30-11:00 |
Morning tea + Information market |
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Panel: Gender and education in East Africa Chair: Linda Johnson |
Panel: Higher education and enrolment issues Chair: Beer Schröder |
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11:00-11:30 |
Gendering learning: Reflections from teaching, research and practice Wendy Harcourt |
Towards an African space for higher education: from Utopia to reality George Haddad |
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11:30-12:00 |
What is a gender lens: a skit Mdubusi Zingelwayo |
Massification of higher education in Africa Akiiki Babyesiza |
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12:00-12:30 |
Drivers for gendered exclusion in education in East Africa Auma Okwany |
Participatory assessment of the development of the Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique Nilza César |
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12:30-13:00 |
Being a girl and in Uganda and Kenya: educational outcomes Elizabeth Ngutuku |
What do enrolment data say about education, using Bourdieu’s approach? Bert van Pinxteren |
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13:00-14:30 |
Lunch + Information market |
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Panel: Indigenous and informal education Chair: Felix Ameka |
Panel: Education and sustainable city movements in Africa Chair: Ton Dietz |
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14:30-15:00 |
Culture of work, training for and production of clan-bond goods and services in Southwestern Nigeria: The non-formal and informal learning approaches Tajudeen Adewumi Adebisi |
How to integrate sustainable city goals in teaching in Africa and about Africa? Ton Dietz |
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15:00-15:30 |
“Our yesterday our legacy”: Rethinking indigenous adult and community learning for quality education in contemporary African society Akande, Joshua Olusola |
“Each One Teach One”: Collaborative learning, an anthropological approach Madi Ditmars |
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15:30-16:00 |
Conceptualization of education in Ngemba (Cameroon) Solange Mekamgoum |
Between bare necessity and transformative power: The value of informal schools in Kibera, Kenya Inge Mackenbrock |
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16:00-16:15 |
Tea break + Information market |
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16:15-17:30 |
Forum: Matchmaking between African and European Education (DAAD, NORAD, VLIR-UOS, Nuffic) Chair: Theo Hooghiemstra, Director Nuffic |
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17:30 |
Drinks |
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Preliminary programme Saturday 20 May 2017 |
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Time |
Downstairs |
Upstairs |
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9:00-10:00 |
Late registration + Information market +Tea and coffee |
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Panel: Actors and engagement in educational contexts Chair: Jan Jansen |
Panel: Education and employability Chair: Jos Walenkamp |
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10:00-10:30 |
“Education for life” or “Education today”? Sara Kinsbergen & Lau Schulpen |
The role of higher technical education on the employability of graduates in Ghana Edmund Ameko |
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10:30-11:00 |
A maternity clinic in Mali: a zone of awkward engagement Lianne Holten |
Vocational training and employment opportunities for West African youth Mariama Mary Fall |
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11:00-11:30 |
Catering and credit: Investment practices on the countryside of Mali Jan Jansen |
“Trained for which job exactly?” Assessing the impact of access to informal ICT education on employment opportunities for marginalized youth in Nairobi, Kenya. Jalmar Pfeifer |
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11:45-13:15 |
Lunch + Information market |
12:30-13:00 General meeting (ALV) NVAS |
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13.15-14.15 |
Plenary keynote: Language of instruction in Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa: an overview Ingse Skattum Chair: Anneke Breedveld |
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14:15-14:30 |
Tea break + Information market |
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Panel: Literacy Chair: Maarten Mous |
Panel: Policies, teacher training and teacher quality Chair: Azeb Amha |
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14:30-15:00 |
Literacy teaching in Northern Nigeria: policies, practice and resources Mary Anderson |
A quality teacher for all; Best practices for supporting teachers in Mali through innovative tools Céline Herbiet |
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15:00-15:30 |
Language-independent literacies for inclusive education in multilingual areas Friederike Lüpke |
Teachers are like thieves’: state making and the unintended consequences of free primary education in Hargeisa, Somaliland Tobias Gandrup |
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15:30-16:00 |
Literacy and development in Senegal Ekaterina Golovko |
Teacher education and early grade reading instruction in mother tongue languages in Ethiopia: the case of colleges of teachers’ education Moges Yigezu |
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16:00-16:30 |
Innovations in islamic education in The Gambia: Reconciling religious aspirations and the requirements of a contemporary state Tal Tamari |
Inconsistent language policies in Ghana and their implications for quality education in Ghana Samuel A. Atintono & Avea E. Nsoh
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16:30-16:45 |
Closing conference |
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16:45 |
Drinks |
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