Learning informally: A case for arts in vocational education and training in Uganda
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Date
2022
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ENGAGE
Abstract
This paper advocates for the inclusion of the arts in vocational learning programs in Uganda as an integrated form of holistic learning oriented towards empowerment and entrepreneurship. Using community-based research in the context of vocational education and training, our data emerged from open-ended interviews, focus groups and youth-led radio talk shows with
stakeholders from public and private sectors, instructors, artists, and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Three significant themes arose from the data collected. First, pathways available to learners to become artists are limited by increasing neoliberal orientations towards education. Second, there is a thriving informal youth-led arts community in northern Uganda empowering young artists to pursue the arts as a
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Keywords
arts education, vocational training, Indigenous
Citation
Ladaah, M. G. O., Openjuru, G. L., Sanford, K., de Oliveira Jayme, B., & Monk, D. (2022). Learning Informally: A Case for Arts Learning in Vocational Education and Training in Uganda. ENGAGE!, 4(1), 17-29.