Dr. Wandia Njoya in Conversation with Prof. Dr. Carlos Kölbl

Abstract

Abstract: In this latest episode of the Cluster Conversations Cluster fellow Dr. Wandia Njoya talks with Prof. Dr. Carlos Kölbl about her research project in which she researches new ways of conceiving and engaging with experiences of education in Kenya and other comparable contexts.

People & roles

Guest(s): Njoya, Wandia; Kölbl, Carlos

Origins & context

Title: Dr. Wandia Njoya in Conversation with Prof. Dr. Carlos Kölbl
Language: English
Podcast series: Cluster Conversations
Date: May 12, 2023

Rights & access

Extent: 48 minutes, 44 seconds

Identifiers & sources

has URL: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_4-Public-engagement_-engagement1/Podcasts/ClusterConversations/Episode6/index.php

Further details

Episode number: 6

Full text

[music] Speaker 1: Cluster conversations, a podcast by Africa Multiple. Speaker 1: Okay, my name is Carlos Köbel. I am professor of psychology here at the University of Bayreuth and I'm sitting here with Wanda Nyoya who studied French at the Penn State University, is currently working in Nairobi, Kenya, has combined research with activism and is currently working here during her fellowship at the cluster. She is working among other things on a collected volume with Liz Cooper and Edmunda Alba on the education alibi. And maybe you could add a bit to those few points on your biography. I'm sure you have much more to say about that and then we can talk about your current research. Speaker 2: Okay, thank you for having me. I have become a public voice and an activist on matters of education because when I finished my studies and I returned home, I expected this glorious experience of teaching students and then I discovered that the system has major issues to do with the philosophy of teaching, the philosophy of education and then of course other political issues like the resources allocated. And then I also, because Kenyans complain a lot about their education system, I wanted to explain to them why the education system is the way it is. And as I started talking in the public about education, I found that there were other social issues coming into the conversation which also needed to be dealt with. So all that is what has brought me here to Bayreuth to kind of reflect on those issues and then sort of ask how can we help the public to understand so that they we can politically make better decisions about our education. Speaker 1: So if I may sum up, you're not an educationalist by training and you're not an anthropologist by training, but you have become besides of your expertise in French, you have become an educationalist and anthropologist from inside, so to speak. Speaker 2: Yes, from experience. Yes. Speaker 1: What leads us also to this project of writing a… Read the full text about 6,259 words