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Overview of the project

The project Productive Learning Cultures is a research co-operation in education between seven universities. The partners are

• The University of Bergen, Norway,
• The University of Pretoria, South Africa
• The University of Zululand, South Africa
• The University of Namibia
• The University of Botswana
• The University of Zimbabwe
• Universidade Pedagógica, Moçambique

The project Productive Learning Cultures is a network research co-operation in education between the universities involved, with ICT and learning and local knowledge forms (Indigenous Knowledge) as the main focus areas.

The overarching idea of the project is to detect and build on existing strengths at each participating institution. Through workshops, seminars and conferences, joint publications and focus on PhD-students’ thesis, the goal is to build knowledge about research throughout the network and thus strengthen each institution’s research capacity.

Because of this basic idea, the project has a broad scope with the possibility of linking various research projects with common theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches.

The project rests on three pillars:

1. A PhD-programme
2. Research projects headed by senior researchers from the universities involved (Subprojects)
3. Building knowledge about how to utilise an ICT-based platform for flexible learning in this kind of international network research project.

Project coordinators:
Professor Sølvi Lillejord, Dept. of Educaton, UiB, Norway
Dr. Annemarie Hattingh, Dept. of Curriculum Studies, UoP, South-Africa

Administration of the project: Centre for Development Studies, UiB, Norway