RENOWNED EDUCATION THEORIST

TO SPEAK AT WORCESTER STATE COLLEGE

(Worcester, MA – November 25, 2003) Worcester State College welcomes Paulo Wangoola of Mpambo, The Afrikan Multiversity in Uganda. Wangoola is the Nabyama (Founding President) of Mpambo and an internationally renowned education theorist. He will speak at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, December 1, 2003 in the Student Center Auditorium.

Mpambo is a unique institution dedicated to the advancement of indigenous knowledge for community renewal and enrichment. Conceptually, the multiversity is based on “Education of the people, from the people, by the people, and back to people again.” The best education is when what is learned/taught at home and in the community is reinforced or supplemented by what is taught in the formal school system. Moreover, it is an education where science and spirituality reinforce each other. It spearheads innovations to empower the community to anticipate and manage cultural change. In this way it enables the community to respond to contemporary opportunities and challenges

The Honorable Paulo Wangoola was the secretary-general for the African Association for Adult Education for 12 years. Under his leadership, the association became the most respected Pan African NGO on the continent. He has been an elected minister of the state and a consultant at different periods of his career. He is the author of several books and articles, including Toward a Transformative Political Economy of Adult Education and Indigenous Knowledge in Global Perspectives: Multiple Readings of the World.

This lecture is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Sociology Department, the Office of Diversity, and the Center for the Study of Human Rights.

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