Location: UiT Arctic University of Norway, Teorifagbygget hus 1: Rom 1.313
PROGRAM
Day 1
9:30–10:00 Opening coffee and introductions
10:00–11:00 Jennifer Hays Introduction to the Research and Advocacy Group on Hunter Gatherer Education: issues raised at CHAGS12 and the launch of the group.
11:00–12:00 Discussion
12:00–13:00 Lunch - (main cafeteria / hoved kantina at Teorifagbyttet)
13:00–14:00 Guest speaker: Marilyn Ngales (Lyceum of the Philippines University). Has education leveled the playing field? The case of the hunter – gatherers in the Philippines
14:00–14:30 Coffee break
Session 1 Culture-based education initiatives: considerations and concerns. moderator: Jennifer Hays
14:30–15:00 Leonora Astete (Lyceum of the Philippines University), Sense of place and relationship: Considerations for culture-based program initiatives
15:00 – 15:30 Julie Grant (University of Johannesburg, South Africa), Culturally appropriate education: The experience of the ‡Khomani Bushmen in the southern Kalahari, South Africa
15:30-16:30 Discussion
Evening Workshop Dinner at Árdna
Day 2
Session 2 Hunter-gatherers and Education in Namibia: case studies moderator: Velina Ninkova
9:30–10:00 Attila Paksi (University of Helsinki, Finland), “Education is the key for future life” – The Namibian Khwe San’s perceptions of formal education
10:00–10:30 Melissa Heckler (Kalahari Peoples Fund, USA), Nyae Nyae Village Playgroup Project
10:30–11:00 Robert Hitchcock (University of New Mexico, USA) and Melinda Kelly (Kalahari Peoples Fund, USA), Mother-Tongue Education, Technology, and Impacts on an Indigenous Community: Ju|'hoan Language and Social Development in Nyae Nyae
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Guest speaker: Edmond Dounias (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development), Intra- and inter-generational knowledge transmission among contemporary hunter-gatherers and post-foragers
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-16:30 Discussion: moderators: Jennifer Hays and Velina Ninkova
Research and advocacy for Hunter Gatherer Education – the way forward
(Coffee break 14:30-13:00)
16:30-16:45 Closing of Workshop