Practice-Based Workshop (PBW)

Practice-based workshops (PBWs) explore in pedagogy and method the university’s self-appointed role as a “mid-wife … of the next generation.…” to re-imagine its boundaries as being dynamic and porous to wider societal exchange. Acknowledging that the prevailing curricula in the Global South, in looking towards scholarship from the West, has become removed from local and national realities, workshops act as an occasion for mobilising local initiatives.

By designing curricula infused by ideas and values that are not just impacted by state-driven national policies or by prescriptive ‘training’ models conducted by visiting faculty from foreign universities through the experts in different fields embedded in the local context, workshops provide an open space for learning and fostering multiple levels of interaction in an atmosphere of mutual sharing and understanding.