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Climbing the Ladder? Community Perspectives on Learning to Be a Good Citizen in Uganda (2022)

Bananuka, T. H., Kontinen, T., & Holma, K. (2022). Climbing the Ladder? Community Perspectives on Learning to Be a Good Citizen in Uganda. In K. Holma, & T. Kontinen (Eds.), Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship (pp. 197-213). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94882-5_11

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Bananuka, Twine H.; Kontinen, Tiina; Holma, Katariina

Parent publication: Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship

Parent publication editors: Holma, Katariina; Kontinen, Tiina

ISBN: 978-3-030-94881-8

eISBN: 978-3-030-94882-5

Publication year: 2022

Pages range: 197-213

Number of pages in the book: 221

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place of Publication: Cham

Publication country: Switzerland

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94882-5_11

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Open Access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/80933

Abstract

This chapter examines the ways in which members of a rural community in Western Uganda perceive and conceptualize diverse ways of learning to be a good citizen. It analyzes data generated by means of a tool called the ‘ladder of citizenship’, which facilitated explication of local ideas concerning good citizenship, and reflections on how one can ‘climb the ladder’, thus learning to be a better citizen. The chapter draws on, first, the concept of cultural citizenship, which understands citizenship as a continuous learning process that takes place through interaction in informal settings, and second, the notion of folk pedagogies that refers to people’s own conceptualizations of learning. The chapter establishes how the idea of good citizenship revolves mainly around one’s role in the local community. It further identifies five categories of participants’ ideas of learning citizenship, including heredity (obuzalirwaana), religion (ediini), copying and observation (kukopa), challenges (ebizibu) and education and training (kusomesebwa).

Keywords: citizenship; citizens; learning; conceptions of learning; conceptions; experiences (knowledge); communities (organisations); communality; growth

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VIRTA submission year: 2022

JUFO rating: 3