Omstridte historiske narrativer med Yosa Wawa

JUSTHIS-prosjektet inviterer til åpen forelesning med professor Yosa Wawa fra University of Juba, Sør-Sudan, om omstridte historiske narrativer, etterfulgt av en Q&A.

Tema for forelesningen er: Contested Historical Narratives. The South Sudan Secondary School Textbooks

Om forelesningen

The curricula and textbooks of South Sudan’s primary and secondary school levels have been influence by instruments such the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UNESCO’s principles on tolerance. As the curricula are learner-centred, they dictate that the learner takes centre-stage in learning.

Some of the topics in the history textbooks such as social history has stereotypes, and democracy and rule of law, heroes and heroines, poverty and corruption, ethnicity, and colonialism with associated collaborators or resistors have contested narratives. This often forces some teachers to either avoid topics which bring about contestations in the classroom and the school environment or resort to age old, teacher-centred instruction method.

Dr. Yosa Wawa er professor og leder for historieavdelingen ved Universitetet i Juba, School of Education. Dr. Wawa har bred erfaring med forskning på historie i Nildalen og har spilt en sentral rolle i utviklingen av lærebøker og læreplaner i Sør-Sudan. Han veileder flere master- og doktorgradsstudenter i historie og er fellow ved Rift Valley Institute.