Presented @ Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Research in Education - SSRE 2013 on Integrating formal and informal learning, August 21-23, 2013, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.

1. Formal and Informal Learning
Practices in Community
Multimedia Centres in
Mozambique
Sara Vannini, Marta Pucciarelli, Isabella Rega
NewMinE Lab, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Institute of Education, University of London, UK

3. [MaitlandReport1984,UNMillenniumDeclaration2000,WSIS2003,WSIS2005]
Universal Access
digitaldivide
knowledgesociety

4. Public Access to ICTs Venues
Accesstoinformation
AccesstoKnowledge(4Development)
Accesstotheskillstobenefitofaccess

5. Public Access to ICTs Venues
Accesstoinformation
AccesstoKnowledge(4Development)
Accesstotheskills tobenefitofICTs

6. development of ICTs skills
eLearning & distance education
access to development-relevant content
(health, agriculture, human rights, civic participation)
Public Access to ICTs Venues

7. telecentres
community radios

8. Communities
beneficiaries & providers
of their own learning

10. Computer
Courses
Radio
Debates
Local Music
radio
broadcasting
Homeworks at
the telecentre
eLearning
Be a good
Journalist
Social work
Development
Programs in the Radio
Computer tips
from peers
Finding information
to broadcast

11. Computer
Courses
Radio
Debates
Local Music
radio
broadcasting
Homeworks at
the telecentre
eLearning
Social work
Development
Programs in the Radio
Computer tips
from peers
Finding information
to broadcast
Be a good
Journalist

12. What kind of learning is promoted by
CMCs according to Mozambican
local stakeholders perceptions?
Are CMCs bridges between formal and
informal learning in Mozambique?

13. What kind of learning is promoted by
CMCs according to Mozambican
local stakeholders perceptions?
Are CMCs bridges between formal and
informal learning in Mozambique?

14. CommunityInitiating
Agencies
Staff

15. Community
Users
-(RC+TC)
#95
-(RC) #72
Non-Users #8
Initiating
Agencies
#2
Staff
#57

16. Analysis # 1
Interviews – whole corpus

17. 1 2 3 4 5 6
Molding
the polis
through
the
community
radio
Learning
informatics
at the
telecenter
Computers
as possibly
connected
typewriters
Users edu-
tainment
experience
with the
radio
What we
sell is
photocopie
s : An
instrument
al view of
telecenters
services
The CMC
as a
bureaucra
tic
umbrella

18. 1] Molding the polis through the community radio
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 .

19. 2] Users’ edutainment experience with the radio
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.

20. 3] Learning informatics at the telecentre
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.

21. Analysis # 2
Content Analysis

22. RADIO
Agriculture
Social issues
Health
Local culture
Journalism
Weather
(Children s &
Women s Rights)

23. Most of all about agriculture… 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 global change will be… it was difficult
to have this information before
[Radio user, non-user of the telecentre]

24. The community radio has educational programs, and also
the part about news. The news 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]

25. Usually I listen to the programs for children, a program
called Mikitxe Txuhalake Mokwa. This program is about…
when someone does not understand 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]

26. Because I think it s a learning centre […] It is worth doing, from
here they come out as professionals 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 job. It encouraged young people
to have the will of working.
[Staff member]

27. TELECENTRE
Computer Skills
Computer Skills, Help in homeworks

28. Many people did not know what is a computer.
[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 do some research
for myassignments”.
[Radio & Telecentre user]

29. What kind of learning is promoted by CMCs
according to Mozambican local stakeholders
perceptions?

30. Know Do Be
Staff
Community
What kind of learning is promoted by CMCs
according to Mozambican local stakeholders
perceptions?

31. Are CMCs bridges between formal and
informal learning in Mozambique?

32. Computer
Courses
Radio
Debates
Local Music
radio
broadcasting
Homeworks at
the telecentre
Social work
Development
Programs in the Radio
Computer tips
from peers
Finding information
to broadcast
Be a good
Journalist

33. Computer
Courses
Radio
Debates
Local Music
radio
broadcasting
Homeworks at
the telecentre
Social work
Development
Programs in the Radio
Computer tips
from peers
eLearning
Finding information
to broadcast
Be a good
Journalist

34. Computer
Courses
Radio
Debates
Local Music
radio
broadcasting
Homeworks at
the telecentre
Social work
Development
Programs in the Radio
Computer tips
from peers
Finding information
to broadcast
Be a good
Journalist

35. Telecentres:
underused (in terms of initiating
agencies expectation)

36. Telecentres:
could benefit from reproducing informal
learning (and more interactive) activities of
the community radio

37. Telecentres:
Edutainment as a winning strategy.

38. Thank you
sara.vannini@usi.ch
marta.pucciarelli@usi.ch
www.newmine.org