Harris, Colette (2009) 'Transformative Education in Violent Contexts: Working with Muslim and Christian Youth in Kaduna, Nigeria.' IDS Bulletin, 40 (3). pp. 34-40.
Abstract
This article discusses one approach to producing social change used in a transformative education project carried out in 2007/08 in Kaduna, Nigeria. Its participants were Muslim and Christian youth and the setting one in which, in the wake of recent inter-sectarian riots, the possibility of new outbreaks of community violence is ever present. The project aimed to open up spaces for reflection and citizen action at community level and increase participants' ability to analyse the local political situation, in order to reduce violence in the community. The success of transformative education depends on the ability of the facilitator to use pedagogy to support people to make fundamental changes in their frames of reference. In those instances where the methodology of the project was truly transformative and not merely participatory, it produced changes in thought processes – increased capacity for critical thinking.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of Development Studies Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > Department of Development Studies |
ISSN: | 02655012 |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2009.00036.x |
Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2016 10:25 |
URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/20798 |
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