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

拟议的网络将探讨以艺术为基础的方法对在冲突和旷日持久的危机情况下提供教育的研究的潜在贡献。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，作为三次网络会议的一部分，他们做出影响他们的政策和实践决策。拟议的网络将探索不同形式的艺术表现形式的潜力，以此作为克服权力失衡和沟通困难的一种方式，并促进教育系统不同级别的利益攸关方之间的相互学习。它旨在通过艺术表达重新思考流离失所的年轻人的经历，支持社区艺术家共同调查，并鼓励学者将他们的知识生产实践偏向于当地知识，并使用表演、诗歌、口头传统和非语言形式的知识而不是文字来共同制作信息。在肯尼亚，苏·科克伦博士(MMU)将与屡获殊荣的芭蕾舞教师Mike Wamaya合作，通过舞蹈促进共同制作关于与街头相连的年轻人的教育经验的知识。乌干达会议将探讨为难民提供教育的问题，将由Virginie Tallio博士(MU)和插图画家Charity Atakunda组织。在刚果民主共和国，Thomas D‘Aquin Rubambura(Peder)将与诗人和剧作家Foustin Muliri Miruhu合作，为因该国持续的冲突而流离失所的与街头有联系的年轻人组织一个研讨会。网络会议的方法是利用社区艺术家作为共同调查者和艺术表现者，鼓励来自教育部门各个层面的利益攸关方共同创造知识，旨在使所有与会者能够通过为会议选择的表演艺术做出贡献。小组活动将鼓励参与者相互协调、倾听和辩论。该项目以与街头有联系的年轻人、境内流离失所者或难民为重点，采取跨学科、跨部门的方法--探索这些年轻人在获得教育机会和过渡(重返)教育过程中的经验交集。这样的青年流离失所人口，使人道主义领域和国际发展领域的研究和实践之间的界限成为问题，并有可能有助于研究在紧急情况下提供教育的问题，并在长期冲突和危机局势中将可持续发展目标4付诸实践。该项目将由科克伦领导，与凯特·帕尔教授(MMU)合作，后者专门使用基于艺术的方法，并与社区艺术家合作，共同调查。PAHL将在乌干达主持一次初步规划会议，该会议将把该网络的四名主要合作者和共同主持网络会议的三名艺术家聚集在一起，以确保网络会议形成一个综合的整体，有助于实现今后对冲突和旷日持久的危机情况下的教育提供研究的目标。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一次会议产生的艺术。这项艺术将被策划成一本自我出版的书和一个网络空间，展示作为联合制作过程的一部分所发生的学习。此外，这次会议将被用来根据联网会议期间形成的当地知识制定未来的研究计划，这将转化为争取进一步资金的努力。

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.