SWG History of Education in African Societies - Online Meetings 2025/2026
The Standing Working Group “History of Education in African Societies” is organizing four online meetings throughout the academic year. They will take place on Tuesdays, from 3 to 5 pm (Central European Time). We will devote sometime talking of our collective projects, and listen to four presentations:
- November 25: Julie Marie Weiskopf, “The Benefit I got was to Educate the Elders”: Tanzanian Adult Literacy Teachers’ Participatory Benefits, 1970-1985
- January 27 : Hélène Charton, “Se former à l’aube des indépendances: Trajectoires d’une première génération de diplômés du Kenya (1945-1956)”
- March 24: Alina Lapushnika, “Negotiating Identity: The Avatime Initiation Rite in the Face of Christianisation and Modern Education (19th–21st Centuries)”
- May 26: Elisa Prosperetti, “An Anticolonial Development: Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentieth Century West Africa”
If you are interested in joining this us, please write to HoE-African-societies(at)ische.org
