Transformative education in violent contexts: working with Muslim and Christian youth in Kaduna, Nigeria

Harris, Colette (2009) Transformative education in violent contexts: working with Muslim and Christian youth in Kaduna, Nigeria. IDS Bulletin, 40 (3). pp. 34-40. ISSN 1759-5436

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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:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
Depositing User:	Abigail Dalgleish
Date Deposited:	21 Mar 2011 16:42
Last Modified:	11 Jan 2023 10:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/26823
DOI:	10.1111/j.1759-5436.2009.00036.x

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