Workshop: Hunter Gatherer Education – Directions for Research and Advocacy 24 – 25 September 2019, University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway

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