Belonging and learning: Using co-produced arts methodologies to explore youth participation in contexts of conflict in Kenya, Uganda and the DRC

拟议的网络将探索基于艺术的方法对冲突和长期危机情况下教育提供研究的潜在贡献。来自曼彻斯特城市大学（MMU）、Makerere大学（MU）和PEDER的研究人员将与肯尼亚、乌干达和刚果民主共和国（DRC）的当地艺术家合作，将流离失所的年轻人与教师、社会工作者和当地教育官员聚集在一起，这些官员制定了影响他们的政策和实践决定，这是三次网络会议的一部分。拟议的网络将探索不同形式的艺术表现的潜力，作为克服权力不平衡和沟通困难的一种方式，并促进不同层次教育系统的利益相关者之间的相互学习。它旨在通过艺术表达重新思考流离失所的年轻人的经历，支持社区艺术家成为共同调查者，并鼓励学者分散他们的知识生产实践，优先考虑当地知识，并利用表演、诗歌、口头传统和非语言形式的知识而不是文字来共同生产信息。在肯尼亚，Su Corcoran博士（MMU）将与屡获殊荣的芭蕾舞教师Mike Wamaya合作，通过舞蹈媒介促进有关街头青年教育经历的知识的共同传播。乌干达会议将由Virginie Tallio博士（MU）和插画家Charity Atakunda组织，探讨为难民提供教育。在刚果民主共和国，Thomas D'Aquin Rubambura （PEDER）将与诗人兼剧作家Faustin Muliri Miruhu合作，为因该国持续冲突而流离失所的街头年轻人组织一个讲习班。网络会议以社区艺术家作为共同调查人员和艺术表达的方式，鼓励来自不同教育阶层的持份者共同产生知识，目的是让所有参与者都能通过为会议选择的行为艺术作出贡献。小组活动将鼓励参与者相互协调、倾听和辩论。该项目重点关注流落街头、国内流离失所或难民的年轻人，采用跨学科、跨部门的方法，探索这些年轻人在获得教育和向教育过渡（回归）过程中的经验交叉点。这些流离失所的年轻人使人道主义和国际发展研究和实践领域之间的界限成为问题，并可能为研究紧急情况下的教育提供有用的视角，并在长期冲突和危机局势中将可持续发展目标4转化为实践。该项目将由Corcoran领导，与Kate Pahl教授（MMU）合作，Kate Pahl教授专门研究以艺术为基础的方法，并与社区艺术家共同研究。Pahl将在乌干达主持一次初步规划会议，该会议将把网络的四位主要合作者与三位艺术家聚集在一起，他们将共同促进网络会议，以确保网络会议形成一个综合整体，有助于为未来在冲突和长期危机情况下提供教育的研究提供信息。在网络会议之后，未来的规划会议将在英国曼彻斯特举行，以反思网络会议和每次会议上产生的艺术。这些艺术将被策划成一本自行出版的书和一个网络空间，将展示作为合作制作过程一部分的学习成果。此外，这次会议将用于根据在网络会议期间形成的当地知识制定未来的研究计划，这将转化为进一步资助的投标。

The proposed network will explore the potential contribution of arts-based methods to research concerning education provision in situations of conflict and protracted crisis. Researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Makerere University (MU) and PEDER will collaborate with local artists in Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to bring together displaced populations of young people with teachers, social workers and the local education officials who make the policy and practice decisions that affect them as part of three networking meetings. The proposed network will explore the potential of different forms of artistic expression as a way of overcoming power imbalances and communication difficulties, and promoting mutual learning between stakeholders at different levels of the education system. It aims to re-think displaced young people's experience using artistic expression, supporting community artists to be co-investigators and encouraging academics to decentre their knowledge production practice to prioritise local knowledge and coproduce information using performance, poetry, oral traditions and non-linguistic forms of knowledge rather than words.In Kenya, Dr Su Corcoran (MMU) will collaborate with Mike Wamaya, an award winning ballet teacher, to facilitate coproduction of knowledge about street-connected young people's experiences of education, through the medium of dance. The Uganda meeting, which will explore education provision for refugees, will be organised by Dr Virginie Tallio (MU) and illustrator Charity Atakunda. In DRC, Thomas D'Aquin Rubambura (PEDER) will collaborate with Faustin Muliri Miruhu, a poet and playwright, to organise a workshop with street-connected young people who have been displaced by ongoing conflict in the country. The approach of the networking meetings, of using community artists as co-investigators and artistic expression to encourage stakeholders from various levels of the education sector to co-produce knowledge, aims to enable all participants to contribute through the performance art chosen for the session. Group making activities will encourage the participants to attune, listen to and debate with each other. In focusing on young people who are street-connected, internally displaced or refugees, the project takes an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral approach - exploring intersections of experience of these populations of young people as they gain access to and transition (back) into education. Displaced populations of young people such as these, problematise the boundaries between humanitarian and international development fields of research and practice, and potentially contribute useful perspectives to research into the provision of education in emergencies and translating Sustainable Development Goal 4 into practice in protracted situations of conflict and crisis. The project will be led by Corcoran, in collaboration with Prof. Kate Pahl (MMU) who specialises in using arts-based methods and work with community artists as co-investigators. Pahl will chair an initial planning meeting in Uganda that will bring the network's four key collaborators together with the three artists who will co-facilitate the networking meetings, to ensure that together, the networking meetings form an integrated whole that contributes to the aim of informing future research into education provision in situations of conflict and protracted crisis. A future planning meeting, after the networking meetings, will take place in Manchester UK, to reflect on the Networking Meetings and the art produced at each one. This art will be curated into a self-published book and a web-space that will showcase the learning that has taken place as part of the co-production process. In addition, this meeting will be used to develop a future research plan based on the local knowledge developed during the networking meetings that will translate into a bid for further funding.