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/2025/12/14/culture-and-the-management-of-mental-health-issues-in-african-families-and-communities/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2025/12/14/culture-and-the-management-of-mental-health-issues-in-african-families-and-communities/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:50:14 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=2153 Culture influences how mental health issues are perceived and treated (Carr & Blair, 2023). This paper explores how culture influences the management of mental health issues in African families and communities. We begin with some African conceptions of mental health and end with a call for ongoing African-inspired and African-led research.]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2025/12/14/culture-and-the-management-of-mental-health-issues-in-african-families-and-communities/feed/ 0 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/2024/02/27/decolonize-humxnize/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2024/02/27/decolonize-humxnize/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:03:08 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=2110 Whose knowledge counts? Why delve deep to understand self, history and intercontinental relations? How do people and communities heal from the wounds of colonization and related trauma passed from generation to generation? Such intractable questions are explored in this collection of essays on decolonization. To decolonize means to humxnize, which is of even greater urgency [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2024/02/27/decolonize-humxnize/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2023/08/10/two-rich-days-of-solo-travel-in-halifax/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2023/08/10/two-rich-days-of-solo-travel-in-halifax/#comments Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:35:24 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=2099 In this travel letter about two days in Halifax, I share about the roles of Viola Desmond and Carrie Best in the fight for civil rights in Canada, and about Pearleen Oliver who fought for Black nurses to be accepted into nursing schools in Canada. I describe my visits to the Black Cultural Centre and the former city of Africville, both of which are well worth visiting. I mention Faith Nolan, a Canadian folk and jazz singer-songwriter of mixed African, Mi’kmaw, and Irish heritage who works to prevent the erasure of Black experiences and contributions in Canada.]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2023/08/10/two-rich-days-of-solo-travel-in-halifax/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2022/09/04/from-kenya-to-the-usa-visiting-family-and-friends-and-learning-hisherourstory/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2022/09/04/from-kenya-to-the-usa-visiting-family-and-friends-and-learning-hisherourstory/#comments Sun, 04 Sep 2022 21:11:13 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=2072 In this letter from Nairobi, Kenya, I share pictures and stories from a month of travels to six states in the USA, beginning in Ocean County, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and continuing to magical Brooklyn, New York. In Virginia, friends and I visit Emancipation Oak at Hampton University and “Hearth Memorial to the Enslaved” [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2022/09/04/from-kenya-to-the-usa-visiting-family-and-friends-and-learning-hisherourstory/feed/ 27 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/04/23/contextualising-ethics-in-a-dynamic-world/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/04/23/contextualising-ethics-in-a-dynamic-world/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:02:53 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1960 On the one hand, research ethics are universal in that they have to do with respecting rights and dignity, not doing harm, and ensuring community participation in research and benefits to the communities where the research takes place. On the other, context is dynamic and plays a role in determining the ethical considerations in research processes. Tensions exist. How do [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/04/23/contextualising-ethics-in-a-dynamic-world/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2016/12/05/these-numerique-appropriation-pedagogique-des-technologies-de-l-information-et-de-la-communication-tic-par-les-educateurs-ouest-africains/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2016/12/05/these-numerique-appropriation-pedagogique-des-technologies-de-l-information-et-de-la-communication-tic-par-les-educateurs-ouest-africains/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:48:32 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1557 Cette recherche examine comment et pourquoi les éducateurs en Afrique de l’Ouest, au Mali en particulier, s’approprient pédagogiquement les technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) et avec quels effets. L’appropriation consiste à intégrer, personnellement et dans son milieu, la nouveauté et à la mobiliser de façon stratégique pour répondre aux objectifs contextualisés, souvent [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2016/12/05/these-numerique-appropriation-pedagogique-des-technologies-de-l-information-et-de-la-communication-tic-par-les-educateurs-ouest-africains/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2016/12/05/electronic-thesis-pedagogical-appropriation-of-information-and-communication-technologies-ict-by-west-african-educators/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2016/12/05/electronic-thesis-pedagogical-appropriation-of-information-and-communication-technologies-ict-by-west-african-educators/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:48:27 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1556 This research investigates how and why educators in West Africa, in Mali in particular, pedagogically appropriate information and communication technologies (ICT) and with what effects. Appropriation involves integrating newness into one’s very being and mobilizing it strategically to meet contextualized objectives, often in resistance to the status quo. It is assumed that ICT use is [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2016/12/05/electronic-thesis-pedagogical-appropriation-of-information-and-communication-technologies-ict-by-west-african-educators/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2016/11/07/garrison-school-cultural-center-holds-fall-open-house/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2016/11/07/garrison-school-cultural-center-holds-fall-open-house/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2016 08:20:20 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1547 Dr. Cecelia Robinson will be busy for the next few days as she dons her historian hat and works at finalizing gallery spaces in the Garrison School Cultural Center. Robinson is the historian for the Clay County African American Legacy Inc., but her love of history — and Clay County’s in particular — is a passion to which she has devoted more than 30 years of her time and energy. Her efforts and those of some William Jewell College students and a few others will be on display Wednesday, Nov. 9, at a fall open house tour that begins at 6 p.m.]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2016/11/07/garrison-school-cultural-center-holds-fall-open-house/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2016/11/01/de-l%e2%80%99atlantique-a-l-ocean-virtuel/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2016/11/01/de-l%e2%80%99atlantique-a-l-ocean-virtuel/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2016 09:28:28 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1496 Les enseignantes et enseignants, à travers leur appropriation pédagogique des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) se trouvent – quelquefois émerveillés – au milieu de l’Océan. Derrière eux, il y a tout ce qu’ils ont appris, et devant, ce qu’ils ne connaissent pas encore et qui reste à explorer. Ils accompagnent leurs élèves et en invitent d’autres à les rejoindre dans ce voyage. Ils font de leur mieux pour apprendre, approfondir leur pédagogie et peut-être aussi, à travers leur exemple et leurs actes, encourager le système scolaire à se redynamiser.]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2016/11/01/de-l%e2%80%99atlantique-a-l-ocean-virtuel/feed/ 0