May Workshop

Date:  May 24, 2022         Time:  10AM – 2PM EDT

Virtual Platform:  Zoom Meeting

Topic:  Lifelong Learning and Adult Online and Distance Education

Fee:  Registration is Complimentary

Working Group: Lifelong Learning and Adult Online and Distance Education

At the conclusion of the workshop, a working group will be formed to build upon the work that they conceptualized and will continue to work on deliverables upon which they agreed.  Working groups will meet once per month for three months.

Organizer: José Cossa, Ph.D., Penn State University

Partners:  Africa Special Interest Group (ASIG), CIES; Socially Just Academia (SJA); Virtually Connecting (VC); and, American Center for the Study of Distance Education

Panel-in-Conversation: 

Tutaleni Asino – Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University

Maha Bali – Associate Professor, AUC/SJA/VC

Sinfree Makoni – Professor, Penn State University

Rakel Kavena Shalyefu – Associate Professor, University of Namibia


uBuntu is rooted in a perception of human that transcends the African context – personhood, defined as uBuntu, is not imposed-universalism, but inclusive-global (that is, all humans are ‘bantu/persons’). New theorizing with a Cosmo-uBuntu orientation must be built on faith in, and efforts towards, the recovery of memory of the myriad of the exterior’s epistemological sources and variations.

Tentative schedule:

  • 10:00-10:10am Welcome
  • 10:10-11:00am Panelists Synopsis
  • 11:00am-12:00pm Panel in conversation
  • 12:00-12:15pm Lunch Break
  • 12:15-1:00pm Breakout
  • 1:00-1:45pm Report back and summary
  • 1:45-2:00pm Closing
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