eLearning Africa. Hoy lunes comienza

Ya hemos hablado anteriormente de eLearning Africa , entre otros, aquí tenéis algunos enlaces:
1) el jueves 15 de febrero de 2007 Interview with Faith Macharia, National Director of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), Kenya Chapter;

2) el lunes 5 de junio de 2006 [not] Ethiopia: India Will Contribute to E-Learning Africa: Minister Ethiopia to Be First Beneficiary of E-Network Project;

3) el jueves 25 de mayo de 2006 [ent] Dr. Speranza Ndege on ICT Education in Kenya

4) el sábado 20 de mayo de 2006 [ent] Interview with Iginio Gagliardone, Project Officer at the UNESCO International

5) viernes 17 de marzo de 2006 [ent] The African Virtual University | Interview with the Rector, Mr. Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo.

Pero el hecho es que el lunes comienza; deparará ríos de textos y letras, porque el programa es exhaustivo.

The Conference Programme is Online

The complete eLearning Africa 2007 programme has now been posted on the conference website. With more than 250 speakers, 49 sessions in seven parallel conference strands, fourteen workshops and a number of exciting new features, the event will again be a landmark in Pan-African capacity building for ICT-enhanced education and training.

This year, the hosting country, Kenya, will particularly benefit from eLearning Africa. The Ministry of Education and the Kenyan national Advisory Committee have not only been engaged in the programme preparation, but also in the mobilisation of the Kenyan educational community to participate actively at the event through country-wide awareness building and the establishment of new mechanisms for outreach and capacity building.(leer más…)

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Interview with Faith Macharia, National Director of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), Kenya Chapter

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The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) is a pan-African non-governmental organization founded in 1992 to promote girls’ and women’s education in sub-Saharan Africa in line with the Millennium Goal of Education for All. With headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, FAWE has a network of national chapters in 32 countries.

QUeLA: What would you say are the main factors that prevent females from participating in education? Based upon your experience, can you explain why this exclusion occurs?

Faith Macharia: The factors affecting the situation of girls and women, which include those affecting their ability to participate in education, are many and various. Among them are poverty, cultural beliefs and practises such as early marriage, female circumcision, HIV/AIDS, fathers who are not willing to pay for their daughters’ education as they feel it not important, child labour, gender-based violence, and sexual abuse, to name a but few.

Exclusion from formal education is also a result of extreme poverty, especially among African women, most of who have no source of income and are wholly dependent on their husbands. There is also a lot of polygamy and extramarital affairs, practised by men with impunity. Women are easily sent away from their homes by their husbands with no support for their children, and to add to this, they cannot afford to seek legal redress. Girls’ education is not given priority due to the cultural belief that girls are meant for marriage, to bring dowry to the home. (leer más…)

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