Counteracting fabricated anti-gay public pedagogy in Uganda with strategic lifelong learning as critical action

Regional Centres of Expertise (RCEs), Green Economies and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as Dialogue: Who is Expert?

“…This means to speak with both individual and collective responsibility, without nullifying others by speaking too aggressively or self-righteously, or oneself by speaking too reservedly or not at all. In this aspect of dialogue, one might look especially to post-secondary education (e.g., adult education) to ‘help adult learners acquire the requisite competencies to engage in free and noncoerced dialogue’ (Welton, 1993, p. 88), and in particular, to assist learners ‘in strengthening competencies to participate in political or policy processes, to identify problems, find and debate an array of solutions, and work together for social transformation’ (Hill, 2008, as cited in Grace, 2013, p. 37). Thus, dialogue is a learned skill for meaningful participation in civil society that is to be pursued and continually developed and refined.…”