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Publications (4)


Troubling the Education = Employment = Empowerment Narrative: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Women in Uganda
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June 2023

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African Journal of Gender Society and Development (formerly Journal of Gender Information and Development in Africa)

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Daniel Ahimbisibwe

This paper reports on stage four of a longitudinal study (2004) with women in Uganda, exploring the long-term relationship between post-primary education and empowerment. 13 of the 15 participants from the original study participated in this Feminist Participatory Action Research project and shared their understandings of how they understood the intersections of education and employment to be empowering, disempowering, and what stood in the way of their economic empowerment. Methods included semi-structured questionnaires and interviews, a two-day workshop, and a focus group discussion. A triangulation design (Cresswell 2008) and constructivist grounded theory approach were used for data analysis. Findings indicate the scope of economic empowerment was severely constrained by historic and extant economic, social, and cultural factors that continue to discriminate against and disempower girls and women. Historic and extant global and national systems and practises that are rooted in, and perpetuate gender-based inequalities, disempowerment, and exploitation need to undergo transformative change to provide women with authentic opportunities and freedom to achieve real empowerment (Cornwall & Rivas, 2015).



Digital literacy, HIV/AIDS information and English language l earners in Uganda
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January 2013

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Learning about HIV/AIDS in Uganda: Digital Resources and Language Learner Identities

November 2011

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Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes

While the HIV/AIDS epidemic has wrought havoc in the lives of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa, access to information about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of the disease remains a challenge for many, and particularly for young people. This article reports on an action research study undertaken in a rural Ugandan village in 2006. Twelve English language learners, all of whom were young women, participated in this study. The focus was a digital literacy course that sought to help the participants gain access to information about HIV/AIDS through global health Web sites available in English, Uganda's official language. Our conceptual framework is drawn from theories of investment and imagined identities in the field of language education, and our central questions are twofold: (1) What were the learners' investments in the language practices of the digital literacy course? and (2) What was the relationship between the learners' investments in the course and their identities? Our findings suggest that the learners' multiple investments in the digital literacy course derived not only from the significance of HIV/AIDS to their lives, but also from the opportunity to appropriate a range of imagined identities that offered enhanced possibilities for the future.

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... Women who are empowered have immensely more potential to seize and create economic opportunities that will increase their well-being (Gupta & Roy, 2022). However, it is critical to note that paid work, employment, and participation in the workforce for women do not necessarily represent empowerment (Jones, 2015(Jones, , 2023. Problematically, women in many contexts globally, such as Uganda, continue to be disproportionately subjected to vulnerable employment, poor working conditions, and dismal salaries: "…[they] are often constrained to 'survivalist' employment (Meagher, 2010, p. 473) with "…an intensification rather than a reversal of gender disparities in income, economic opportunity, and burdens of reproductive labour" (Meagher, 2010, p. 472; see also Cornwall, 2018;Cornwall & Rivas, 2015;Durrani & Halai, 2020;AUTHOR 2015AUTHOR , 2023Kabeer, 2020;Khoja-Moolji, 2015;Wilson, 2015). ...

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Women to Women Research for Economic Empowerment in Uganda: A Feminist Participatory Action Research Project
Troubling the Education = Employment = Empowerment Narrative: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Women in Uganda
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  • June 2023

African Journal of Gender Society and Development (formerly Journal of Gender Information and Development in Africa)

... Several studies have underscored the impact of digital media on empowering adolescent girls in lower-middleincome countries. For example, Norton et al., (2011) revealed that digital media could provide adolescent girls with valuable information and knowledge, positively influencing their general well-being and healthcare decision-making. In addition, a study by Kumari in 2020 demonstrated the decisive role of social media in advocating for women's rights and promoting gender equality through digital literacy in India. ...

Learning about HIV/AIDS in Uganda: Digital Resources and Language Learner Identities

Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes