Learning informally: A case for arts in vocational education and training in Uganda
| dc.contributor.author | Openjuru, Maxwell | |
| dc.contributor.author | Openjuru, George L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sanford, Kathy | |
| dc.contributor.author | de Oliveira Jayme, Bruno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Monk, David | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-07T11:13:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-12-07T11:13:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.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 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/ENGAGE/article/view/26078 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/6035 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | ENGAGE | en_US |
| dc.subject | arts education | en_US |
| dc.subject | vocational training | en_US |
| dc.subject | Indigenous | en_US |
| dc.title | Learning informally: A case for arts in vocational education and training in Uganda | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |