Formal and Informal Learning Practices in Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique

Sara Vannini, Marta Pucciarelli, Isabella RegaNewMinE Lab, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

Institute of Education, University of London, UK

[MaitlandReport 1984, UN Millennium Declaration2000, WSIS 2003, WSIS 2005]

Universal Access

digitaldivide knowledgesociety

Public Access to ICTs Venues

Access to informationAccess to Knowledge (4 Development)

Access to the skills to benefit of access

Public Access to ICTs Venues

Access to informationAccess to Knowledge (4 Development)

Access to the sk i l l s to benefit of ICTs

development of ICTs skills

eLearning & distance education

access to development-relevant content(health, agriculture, human rights, civic participation)

Public Access to ICTs Venues

telecentres

community radios

Communitiesbeneficiaries & providers of their own learning

Computer Courses

Radio Debates

Local Music radio

broadcasting

Homeworks atthe telecentre

eLearning

Be a goodJournalist

Social work

Development Programs in the Radio

Computer tipsfrom peers

Finding information to broadcast

Computer Courses

Radio Debates

Local Music radio

broadcasting

Homeworks atthe telecentre

eLearning

Social work

Development Programs in the Radio

Computer tipsfrom peers

Finding information to broadcast

Be a goodJournalist

What kind of learning is promoted by

CMCs according to Mozambican

local stakeholders ’ percept ions?

Are CMCs bridges between formal and

informal learning in Mozambique?

What kind of learning is promoted by

CMCs according to Mozambican

local stakeholders ’ percept ions?

Are CMCs bridges between formal and

informal learning in Mozambique?

CommunityInitiating Agencies

Staff

Community

Users -(RC+TC)

#95-(RC) #72

Non-Users #8

Initiating Agencies

#2

Staff

#57

Analysis # 1Interviews – whole corpus

1 2 3 4 5 6

Molding the polisthrough the

community radio

Learninginformaticsat the telecenter

Computers as possibly connected typewriters

Users’ edu-tainmentexperience with the radio

“What we sell is

photocopies”: An

instrumental view of telecenters’ services

The CMC as a

bureaucratic

umbrella

1 ] Mo ld ing the po l i s through the commun ity rad io

“A community radio is an institution for information with the vocation of letting the community receive the necessary

information, the information that is important for its conviviality,

for its interaction, it is an institution that creates an opportunity

for the people to interact with one another and with other people at the international level”.

2 ] Users ’ eduta inment exper ience with the rad io

“In the radio what I like the most are informative programs, as for example programs about sport, about information of what happens at the local level, as well as at the national and the

international level, I also like more programs for children, other

programs as music ones, I like entertainment in this case.”

3 ] Learn ing in format ics at the te lecentre

“It is important because we learn to know what a computer

is, we learn computer programs, we study the computer as well, but it is much more a honor for Xinavane, we now

know that we have informatics courses.”

Analysis # 2Content Analysis

RADIOAgriculture

Social issues

Health Local culture

Journalism

Weather

(Children’s & Women’s Rights)

“Most of all about a g r i c u l t u r e… which is the official period to seed, which is the one to harvest, what is going to happen to the fields, what the farmers has to prepare for the field to be

productive… how the g l o b a l c h a n g e will be… it was difficult to have this information before”

[Radio user, non-user of the telecentre]

“The community radio has e d u c a t i o n a l programs, and also

the part about news. The n e w s are at an international level. When they broadcast, everyone pays attention, because they have programs in Portuguese and programs in the Makwa language, so the communities understand very well.”

[Radio & Telecentre user]

“Usually I listen to the programs for c h i l d r e n , a program called Mikitxe Txuhalake Mokwa. This program is about…

when someone d o e s n o t u n d e r s t a n d something, they can call to the program and say they don’t understand that thing, and the program informs them.”

[Radio user, non-user of the telecentre]

“Because I think it’s a learning centre […] It is worth doing, from

here they come out as p r o f e s s i o n a l s that will serve this country .”

[Radio user, non-user of the telecentre]

“By volunteering people learnt that volunteering is a good

thing, because they learn a j o b . It encouraged young people to have the will of working.”

[Staff member]

TELECENTRE

Computer Skills

Computer Skills, Help in homeworks

“Many people did not know w h a t i s a c o m p u t e r .”

[Radio user, non-user of the telecentre]

“I did homeworks for the school, because I don’t have Interent

at home, so I have to find a place to surf to d o s o m e r e s e a r c h

f o r m y a s s i g n m e n t s ” .

[Radio & Telecentre user]

W h a t k i n d o f l e a r n i n g i s p romoted by CMCs

accord ing to Mozambican loca l s takeho lde r s ’

p e r c e p t i o n s?

Know Do Be

Staff

Community

W h a t k i n d o f l e a r n i n g i s p romoted by CMCs

accord ing to Mozambican loca l s takeho lde r s ’

p e r c e p t i o n s?

Are CMCs bridges between formal and

informal learning in Mozambique?

Computer Courses

Radio Debates

Local Music radio

broadcasting

Homeworks atthe telecentre

Social work

Development Programs in the Radio

Computer tipsfrom peers

Finding information to broadcast

Be a goodJournalist

Computer Courses

Radio Debates

Local Music radio

broadcasting

Homeworks atthe telecentre

Social work

Development Programs in the Radio

Computer tipsfrom peers

eLearning

Finding information to broadcast

Be a goodJournalist

Computer Courses

Radio Debates

Local Music radio

broadcasting

Homeworks atthe telecentre

Social work

Development Programs in the Radio

Computer tipsfrom peers

Finding information to broadcast

Be a goodJournalist

Te lecentres :

u n d e r u s e d ( in terms of init iat ingagencies expectation)

Te lecentres :

could benefit from reproducing i n f o r m a l

learning (and more i n t e r a c t i v e ) activities of the community radio

Te lecentres :

E d u t a i n m e n t as a winning strategy.

Thank yousara.vannini@usi.chmarta.pucciarelli@usi.chwww.newmine.org