Browsing by Author "Adrupio, Scovia"

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    Designing the future: youth innovation, informality and transformed VET
    (Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (EEASA), 2023-10) Monk, David; Adrupio, Scovia; Muhangi, Sidney; Akite, Irine
    This article argues that Vocational Education and Training (VET) can be a valuable space to develop the innovation required to deal with the wicked problems of the world; however, radical and rapid transformation in approaches to VET is needed. While we use a case study from Gulu, Uganda, the findings can be applied more broadly. A new approach cannot be taken in isolation from other social circumstances, and desperately needs to include epistemic contributions both in relation to content and approach so that it bolsters and supports the initiatives, designs and dreams of the intended participants, especially women. We argue that epistemic injustice is a major limiting factor for environmental learning and innovation. We share potential opportunities from our research to shift towards a climate and socially conscious social skills ecosystem capable of designing a positive future.
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    Exploring the teaching and learning role of agricultural extension workers
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2023-10) Adrupio, Scovia; Ramsarup, Presha
    Agricultural extension has been identified as a key occupation in many African countries. This is because extension workers play a critical role in linking farmers and other actors within the agricultural sector to policy and practice. As a result, teaching and learning are their most important roles. Agricultural extension systems and the work done by agricultural extension workers are faced with a number of challenges, including inadequate funding, a limited number of extension workers, climate change, and general changes in the agricultural system, to name a few. These changes call for extension workers to constantly change and adapt to the changes happening in their world of work in order to best assist farmers in addressing their challenges. Despite a large amount of research being conducted in different areas of agricultural extension, such as the training needs and requirements of extension workers, challenges facing agricultural extension, reforms in extension systems, and gender inequalities in extension, little work has focused on how their teaching and learning roles are changing. This study thus takes an in-depth look at the teaching and learning roles of agricultural extension workers. The study starts by conceptualising the agricultural extension occupation using the five dimensions of an occupation proposed by Shalem and Allais (2018) to unpack the different factors within each occupation and how these can impact the teaching and learning roles of agricultural extension workers. The results of the study provide an understanding of why occupations are social and political activities that are affected by a number of factors and are always undergoing changes. Studying changes in occupations is critical, as it enables us to understand changes in the world of work and how workers in the workplace adapt to work-related changes.