Indicators for informal learning: a mobile heritage network for conflict-affected communities in Uganda

该网络将在遗产、记忆研究和教育方面具有专长的英国和乌干达研究人员和从业人员聚集在一起，批判性地探索在流动遗产环境中评估与和平与和解有关的非正式学习的适当方法。遗产地吸引人们参与过去的特定做法、接触和谈判，因此是非正式学习和平与和解的重要场所。人们越来越期望国际、国家和地方的遗产机构和行为者在预防冲突和冲突后发展方面发挥积极作用，但在考虑教育问题时，这些空间往往被忽视，因为它们是进行记忆工作但在正规课程中被忽视的非正式场所。这意味着，目前对非正式遗产学习对持久和平的影响了解甚少。该网络将产生跨学科知识，在遗产组织内建设当地研究能力，并加强国际合作，开发未来的研究项目。通过这项工作，它将直接为乌干达和平、恢复和发展计划以及难民和收容人口赋权战略作出贡献。它还将应对全球挑战和可持续发展目标，即：(1)实现包容和公平的优质教育；(2)减少冲突，促进和平、正义和人道主义行动。该网络侧重于纳尔逊·阿比蒂(乌干达博物馆乌干达联合调查员)和相关文化组织最近和正在进行的创新遗产工作。这些流动展览力求带来关于和平与和解的非正式学习，并在各种参与者群体之间实现社区凝聚力，但这些活动的影响尚未得到检验。网络活动为来自人文科学和社会科学的学者、遗产从业人员、政府官员和参与者群体提供了空间，以便(1)反思这些非正式遗产地正在进行的学习类型，(2)共同构建有意义和适合具体情况的方法来评估这种学习。参与者群体将包括前战斗人员、难民、社区领袖、和平俱乐部女性成员、被绑架者和幸存者。将在乌干达文化组织中发展研究能力，以了解和评估学习。我们将根据参与者对他们参与非正式遗产学习的思考，共同制定非正式学习指标。这些问题将引起关心遗产地在促进乌干达和整个东非和平可持续发展中的作用的一系列利益攸关方的极大兴趣。该网络将发展持续的国际关系，有可能进行长期的研究合作，从而产生重大影响。预计这将包括共同设计合作学术文章和一个关于非正式遗产学习的大型研究项目，以及如何动员它为受冲突、暴力和流离失所影响的人带来积极成果。

This network brings together UK and Ugandan researchers and practitioners with expertise in heritage, memory studies and education to critically explore appropriate methods of assessing informal learning in relation to peace and reconciliation in mobile heritage settings. Sites of heritage enrol people into particular practices, engagements with and negotiations of the past, and they are important spaces of informal learning about peace and reconciliation as a result. There is growing expectation that international, national and local heritage agencies and actors have a positive role to play in the prevention of conflict and post-conflict development yet these spaces are often neglected in considerations of education, as they are informal sites where memory work is undertaken but neglected in formal curriculum. This means that there is currently little understanding of the impact of informal heritage learning for sustained peace. The network will produce interdisciplinary knowledge, build local research capacity within heritage organisations and strengthen an international collaboration for developing future research projects. Through this, it will directly contribute to the Ugandan Peace, Recovery and Development Plan and Refugee and the Host Population Empowerment Strategy. It will also address the global challenges and sustainable development goals of (1) enabling inclusive and equitable quality education and (2) reducing conflict and promoting peace, justice and humanitarian action. The network focuses on recent and ongoing innovative heritage work by Nelson Abiti (the Ugandan Co-investigator of Uganda Museum) and associated cultural organisations. These mobile exhibitions seek to bring about informal learning about peace and reconciliation and achieve community cohesion amongst a variety of participant groups but tthe impact of which have not been tested. The network activities provide space for academics from the humanities and social sciences, heritage practitioners, government officials and participant groups to (1) reflect on the types of learning that are happening in these informal heritage sites and (2) co-construct meaningful and contextually-appropriate ways to assess this learning. The participant groups will include ex-combatants, refugees, community leaders, women peace club members, abductees and survivors. Research capacity will be developed among Ugandan cultural organisations to understand and assess learning. We will co-develop informal learning indicators based on participants' reflections on their engagement with informal heritage learning. These will be of significant interest to a range of stakeholders concerned with the role of heritage sites in contributing to peaceful sustainable development in Uganda and across East Africa. The network will develop sustained international relationships that have the potential for longer-term research collaboration leading to significant impact. It is anticipated that this will include the co-design of collaborative academic articles and a large research project about informal heritage learning and the ways in which it can be mobilised to bring about positives outcomes for those affected by conflict, violence and displacement.