Finding Your Way in the Education-Work Transition
Finding your way in the education-work transition can evoke a variety of doubts. Around the world, young people are confronted with questions like: How am I going to make a living? What kind of work would I like to do? What kind of education do I need? How can I gain meaningful experience? And on a more personal level: What am I good at? What kind of person do I want to be? What would I like to achieve? Entering the world of work is not only about possessing the right knowledge and skills, but also requires a certain attitude, self esteem and useful relationships.
In Uganda, many young people look to entrepreneurship for making a living. Some of them turn into social entrepreneurs, not only supporting themselves and their families, but also the surrounding communities. In Gulu city, northern Uganda, this asks for strong resilience as the violent conflicts of some decades ago are still part of the collective memory. The city with its large, lively market offers a valuable context for fieldwork to explore youth entrepreneurship in relation to mental resilience. The fieldwork, which is at the core of the summer school, will be prepared in interactive lectures and shared in interdisciplinary groupwork and presentations at Gulu University. The programme draws on the experiences and expertise of the UNESCO chair on Lifelong learning, youth and work. The insights gained will feed into the collective knowledge production and lead to the proposal of innovations in educational programmes.
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Dates & location
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16 - 25 July 2024, Gulu University, Uganda
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Level
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Minimum 3rd year Bachelor |
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Fee
includes lunch, coffee, tea, local transportation |
€ 480 for international participants
€ 80 for Ugandan participants |
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Academic coordinator
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Josje van der Linden, UNESCO Chair holder Lifelong Learning, Youth and Work, Gulu University, Uganda, University of Groningen, the Netherlands |
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Contact
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Yewsummerschool@rug.nl |
NB Participants need to arrange their own accommodation. For a list of affordable possibilities, kindly contact the organizers.
Please be aware that you will need to account for extra traveling time of 2 days ahead and 2 days after the summer school
The summer school is designed for students trying to find their way into the working world and for practitioners interested in social entrepreneurship. Participants will acquire valuable tools for entrepreneurship and mental resilience.
It is expected that the participants have a sufficient command of the English language to actively participate in the discussions and to present their own work in English.
After this course you will be able to:
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Explain social and sustainable entrepreneurship.
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Have tools for mental resilience.
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Conduct fieldwork (participatory action research)
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Develop career awareness
Upon successful completion of the programme, the Summer School offers a Certificate of Attendance.
See the preliminary course schedule below.
Josje van der Linden
Josje van der Linden is lecturer and researcher at the University of Groningen. Her research interests encompass the area of lifelong learning, vocational education and workplace learning for adults and youth in the Netherlands and in Africa with special attention to youth, education and work in (post-)conflict areas. Dr. van der Linden is appointed as UNESCO chair holder on Lifelong learning, youth and work at Gulu university in Gulu, Uganda.
Victor J. Friedman, Ed.D., Harvard University, is an action researcher working in the fields of organizational learning, social inclusion, social entrepreneurship, and conflict engagement. Prior to retirement, he was Associate Professor of Organizational Development and Consulting at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College in Israel, where he founded and directed the Action Research Center for Social Justice. He has been an active participant in the Youth Education and Work Network for over ten years. He has numerous publications and serves as an Associate Editor at the Action Research Journal. Victor lives with his wife in Zichron Yaakov, Israel, and they have four children and 7 grandchildren.
Nyeko Kenneth, is a Ugandan by Nationality, serving in Gulu University as an Assistant Administrative officer designate in the office of the Vice Chancellor.
He served as the Project Administrator/Researcher for the VET Africa 4.0 project, a collaborative project between Gulu University, Nottingham University, Witwatersrand University and Rhodes University. Preceding that he served as the project Coordinator for the UNESCO Chair for Life Long Learning Youth and Work of Gulu University.
Nyeko Kenneth holds a Bachelor Degree in Public Administration from Gulu University and a Certificate of Administrative Law from Makerere University.
Namubiru Zula is a Lecturer at the Makerere University Department of Adult and community Education, Council Member African Rural University Kagadi on Appointment’s and Promotions Board; an all-woman university using women as agents of change. Chair Board Paradigm for Social Justice and Development a Women’s Organization providing Peace Building, Legal Services, Income Generation and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights. Committee Member for Uganda under FEMNET on Inclusive Education/Vocational Education for Girls and Young Women. FEMNET a Women’s Communication Network in Africa.
Coordinator for Makerere University on UNESCO Chair Lifelong Learning, Youth and Work housed at Gulu University and University of Groningen Netherlands. Works with World Health Organization Uganda, UNFPA and Ministry of Health on sexual and reproductive health policies and strategies for Uganda. PhD student in the School of Distance and Lifelong learning at Makerere University; conducting research with fishers and female fish smokers. A participatory Action Researcher specializing in women’s issues and fishers. Member British Institute of Eastern Africa, member Association of Professional Adult Educators in Uganda, Member Academy of Science New York, Member AFRIHEALTH OPTONET association, Member Women Major Group a global network for advancement of women affairs in policy advocacy and Sustainable Development goals at UN Summit and Regional forums. Visiting Research fellow at University of Groningen Netherlands and Adult Education Academy at Wurzburg University Germany.
Dr Bukola Oyinloye is a Researcher at the University of York where she examines the doctoral recruitment and selection landscape for British applicants from minoritised ethnic groups. Alongside this, she researches family-school partnerships and the educational experiences of adolescents in African contexts.Read Less
Her research spans equity and diversity in access to HE; global childhoods and youth; informal apprenticeships; ethics; indigenous epistemologies; and school leadership and management. She also has several years of experience in the research, monitoring and evaluation of large-scale education interventions in low- and middle-income.
David Monk is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Humanities at Gulu University (Uganda), and honorary Associate Professor in the school of Education at the University of Nottingham (UK). His PhD is from the University of Victoria (Canada), and related to
informal learning in grassroots activism for social and environmental justice. David is a special advisor to the UNESCO Chair in Lifelong Learning Youth and Work and coordinator of the UNESCO Knowledge for Change (K4C) African Centre for Training in community based participatory (action) research. He also sits on the board of several NGOs based in
Gulu which are oriented in social impact and empowerment in Northern Uganda. David’s research and community work revolve around inclusive lifelong learning, developing healthy community university relationships, environmental sustainability, and innovation, participatory community economics and social entrepreneurship, and understanding the vibrant social learning ecosystem in northern Uganda. Informality, gender, peace, and epistemic justice are cross cutting. Recent publications can be found here.
d.monk@gu.ac.ug, @dfmonk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9178-6576, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Monk9
Prof Kennedy Amone-P’Olak obtained a bachelor and master’s degree from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda and later pursued another master's degree in Health and Behavioural Sciences from Leiden University, The Netherlands in 2004. He completed his PhD from Groningen University, also in the Netherlands and pursued a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Cambridge in UK. He has been at the University of Botswana, University of the Witwatersrand, and now a professor at Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda. His main research interests include psycho-traumatology, childhood adversity and early adult health outcomes, drug and substance abuse and mental health literacy. Prof Kennedy Amone-P’Olak has been a visiting scholar at the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark, University of Bergen in Norway, and Uppsala University in Sweden. Prof Amone-P’Olak is the PI of the WAYS study, a longitudinal that aims to chart the development of mental health problems in formerly abducted youth in northern Uganda and has published extensively in the field psychological trauma. Currently, Prof Amone-P’Olak is developing an application for a UNESCO Chair to be hosted at Gulu University.
Michal Razer, Prof. is the Dean of Education Faculty In Oranim Academic College of Education, where she founded the M.Ed. program in Inclusive Education and Youth at Risk as well as the Shaveh Center for Equity and Social Inclusion. She was the co-founder and director of Metarim, a center for training educational and welfare professionals in inclusive practice, at the Oranim Academic College of Education .Razer has over thirty five years of experience in educational therapeutic interventions in educational systems and in developing intervention programs for generating social inclusion in education. She has published extensively on inclusive education and in-service training in inclusion.
- Robert Jjuuko
- Kenneth Nyeko
- Nathalie Beekman
To apply, kindly fill out the online application form. Please include the following documents with your application:
- CV (max 2 pages)
- Letter of motivation, explaining what you hope to learn during the summer school and why this will be important for your academic ambitions (max 1 page)
Selection will take place on a rolling-basis. Please note that we accept max. 30 participants.
The deadline for applying is 20 April 2024.
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