Seminar on the occasion of the first AWLAE doctorate Ms Doris Kakuru M.Ph., with Ms Prof. Dr. Joy Kwesiga (Kabala and Makerere University, Uganda) and Ms Dr Auma Okwany (Institute for Social Studies, The Hague)
Ms Prof. Dr. Joy Kwesiga (Kabala and Makerere University, Uganda) and Ms Dr Auma Okwany (Institute for Social Studies, The Hague) will discuss with the audience after a presentation of 20 min each.
Dr. Okwany will report about her case study on basic education among girls in one of the Nairobi slums, Kenya.
Prof. Kwesiga will address the urgency to differentiate more in research and policies into categories of girls according to life circumstances, age groups/life-cycle, localities and school levels.
Discussion can focus within the range from fruitful concepts for gender, education and development to how to prioritise research and effectively contribute to overcome the overwhelming constraints in finances, teachers training, school curriculum, gendered attitudes in class and outside school, poor health and livelihood conditions.
Faculty, Ph.D. candidates and students are very welcome to come.
This seminar will be held on the occasion of the doctorate of Ms Doris Kakuru M.Ph., the first of 20 African women Ph.D. candidates of the AWLAE programme (African Women Leaders in Agriculture and Environment). The AWLAE programme at WUR is an initiative of Sociology of Consumers and Households Group, AWLAE Nairobi and Winrock International, funded by DGIS, Foreign Affairs Netherlands.
The seminar is offered by the Gender Studies group, Education and Competence Studies group and the AWLAE programme.
All are invited for the public defence of Doris Kakuru in the Wageningen Aula at the same day 13.30