https://www.kathryntoure.net Education, Research, Partnerships Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:34:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2025/01/19/is-decolonization-more-than-a-buzzword-2/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2025/01/19/is-decolonization-more-than-a-buzzword-2/#comments Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:54:29 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=2126 The 4th African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) biennial conference was all about being human and (re)imagining the human from Africa. About 600 people participated, in person from Cape Town and/or virtually. The theme of decolonization was discussed in many of the 160 sessions over five days in April 2022 2. This chapter explores some of the themes that emerged in the presentations and discussions on decolonization, which some called merely a buzzword. Is decolonization more than a buzzword? And if so, is it even possible to achieve decolonization? To begin the reflection, how is the concept defined? Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed (2022), drawing on other scholars, writes that "Decolonization is rooted in dismantling colonial and imperialist systems… built into the social, economic, political, cultural, and religious realities of colonized peoples" and "requires tremendous work and effort in addressing these injustices.]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2025/01/19/is-decolonization-more-than-a-buzzword-2/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/covid-stories-from-east-africa-and-beyond-lived-experiences-and-forward-looking-reflections/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/covid-stories-from-east-africa-and-beyond-lived-experiences-and-forward-looking-reflections/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:04:15 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1924 Coronavirus happened and is still with us. Its impact has been far reaching, and many lives have been deeply disrupted, even lost. Africans have sought to cope with it in various ways, including giving it names of derision, names of defiance, and names that point to a determination to overcome it. In one of Kenya’s [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/covid-stories-from-east-africa-and-beyond-lived-experiences-and-forward-looking-reflections/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/parenting-across-cultures-continents-and-generations/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/parenting-across-cultures-continents-and-generations/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:56:42 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1920 When I was asked to write on feminist parenting, I checked in with my adult children using social media and asked if I’m a feminist parent. With their resounding assurances – which I share later – I felt comfortable writing this essay. I begin by recounting how our children were born with feminist touches and [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/parenting-across-cultures-continents-and-generations/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/06/07/l%e2%80%99appropriation-pedagogique-des-technologies-un-processus-socioculturel/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/06/07/l%e2%80%99appropriation-pedagogique-des-technologies-un-processus-socioculturel/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2020 11:42:58 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1828 Fonlon (2010) décrit la culture comme la transformation continuelle de soi et de son environnement. Au 21e siècle, le renouvellement continu de la culture scolaire ne se fera pas en dehors de la société en générale, ni de la société du savoir et des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) sur lesquelles elle repose et qui sont de plus en plus utilisées dans les écoles. ]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/06/07/l%e2%80%99appropriation-pedagogique-des-technologies-un-processus-socioculturel/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/04/05/writing-and-sharing-human-experiences-of-covid-in-east-africa-call-for-potential-book-chapters/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/04/05/writing-and-sharing-human-experiences-of-covid-in-east-africa-call-for-potential-book-chapters/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:41:50 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1787 Are you experiencing COVID in East Africa and desiring to write and share your reflections? Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group is preparing a book for this year with about 20 chapters — at least 75% by women. Each chapter is expected to be 5 to 10 pages. Together they will represent diverse situations [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/04/05/writing-and-sharing-human-experiences-of-covid-in-east-africa-call-for-potential-book-chapters/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/03/11/feminist-parenting-perspectives-from-africa-and-beyond/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/03/11/feminist-parenting-perspectives-from-africa-and-beyond/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:17:55 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1774 “I am happy to have a chapter (8) in this inspirational book: Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond.” Kathryn Toure The essays cut across racial, gender, queer, and geographical difference, raising difficult questions regarding what it means to parent as a feminist, and how feminism shapes our experiences and aspirations of parenting. —DR. LYN OSSOME, Senior Research Fellow, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/03/11/feminist-parenting-perspectives-from-africa-and-beyond/feed/ 5 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2013/10/21/does-communication-enrich-integration-policies/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2013/10/21/does-communication-enrich-integration-policies/#comments Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:59:06 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1109 This chapter draws lessons from this three-way discussion and explores how these players—those who design and implement public policies, researchers and journalists—can invent and lead discussion forums in order to influence policies that are closer to citizens’ reality and expectations and that accompany integration.]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2013/10/21/does-communication-enrich-integration-policies/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2012/06/13/communiquer-pour-enrichir-les-politiques-d-integration/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2012/06/13/communiquer-pour-enrichir-les-politiques-d-integration/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:05:55 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=666 Ce texte est une rétrospective critique de l’expérience d’une rencontre provoquée entre des acteurs issus de champs sociaux différents avec des logiques, des intérêts différents et qui doivent pourtant coopérer dans la vie professionnelle courante. Tirant les leçons de ce dialogue à trois, ce chapitre explore comment ces différents acteurs – concepteurs et responsables de la mise en œuvre des politiques publiques, chercheurs, journalistes – peuvent inventer et animer des forums d’échange pour influer sur des politiques qui soient plus proches des réalités et des attentes des citoyens, et qui facilitent et accompagnent l’intégration.]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2012/06/13/communiquer-pour-enrichir-les-politiques-d-integration/feed/ 1 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2009/05/02/appropriating-and-making-technologies-work-for-you-in-teaching-and-learning-depth-is-of-essence/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2009/05/02/appropriating-and-making-technologies-work-for-you-in-teaching-and-learning-depth-is-of-essence/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 15:24:36 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=100 Qu’est-ce que s’approprier les TIC ? Cell phones have been rapidly and creatively appropriated across Africa, in unexpected ways. The computer and internet are not nearly as widely used, especially by teachers. This is because of cost and complexity but also because of time. Teachers do not have opportunities and time to learn to integrate information [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2009/05/02/appropriating-and-making-technologies-work-for-you-in-teaching-and-learning-depth-is-of-essence/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2008/07/10/169/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2008/07/10/169/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:02:32 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=169 De nombreux universitaires et écrivains ont souligné qu’internet serait une autre forme d’impérialisme culturel utilisée par les entreprises des puissances occidentales pour alimenter fortement des valeurs occidentales et des visions du monde, de la même manière que l’éducation occidentale a été imposée à l’Afrique, après la colonisation. Ces arguments, à propos de la circulation des [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2008/07/10/169/feed/ 0