Thursday, December 4, 2014

 Mother Tongue Scholarship by Dr. Budd Hall
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UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Mother Tongue Scholarship: A week with Ugandan Intellectuals

In the fields of participatory research or community based research we acknowledge that knowledge is also being created in community organisations or social movements without any involvement whatsoever by academics. The reality is that knowledge is largely created outside of higher education institutions in any case. But for those of us associated with universities and supportive of CBR and knowledge democracy, we often think of CBR as a co-creation process of community based scholars working with university-based scholars.
In early November, I had the opportunity to spend a week in Uganda, based in Jinja located at the source of the Nile river as it flows north from Lake Victoria working with the mother tongue scholars of the Mpambo Afrikan Multiversity on a series of discussions with traditional Afrikan scholars involved in the planning of the Confluence 2016 international conference that will celebrate 50 years of the prophesy of Mulembe Mutinzi..

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