THE 2nd EAST AFRICAN TEACHER EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM (EATES 2022)
THEME: THE PANDEMIC’S EFFECT ON UGANDAN AND EAST AFRICAN EDUCATION 9th - 11th NOVEMBER 2022, MAKERERE UNIVERSITY, – YUSUF LULE MAIN AUDITORIUM

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THE 2nd EAST AFRICAN TEACHER EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM (EATES 2022)
THEME: THE PANDEMIC’S EFFECT ON UGANDAN AND EAST AFRICAN EDUCATION
9th - 11th NOVEMBER 2022, MAKERERE UNIVERSITY, – YUSUF LULE MAIN AUDITORIUM
Updated link to the symposium in Zoom - Day 3:
Venue 1:
Venue 2:
Webinar ID: 976 9297 7898
Passcode: 456488
PROGRAMME
TIME | ACTIVITY | PERSON IN CHARGE | ||
8:30 - 9:55am | Arrival and Registration | Dr. Nancy Nabiryo & Ms. Judith Nzala | ||
9:30 -11:30am | Anthems followed by Welcome Speeches | |||
H.E. Elin Østebø Johansen | Dr. Muhammad Kiggundu | |||
Entertainment Interlude: CABUTE BAND | ||||
11:30 - 12:00 | Health Break: Coffee/Tea | Dr. Eliab Muhindo & Welfare Team | ||
12:00 -1:00 pm | Key Note Address 1 Prof. Mugagga Muwagga Anthony: Blended Pedagogical Approaches and Their Impact on Learning Cultures during and after Covid 19 | Assoc. Prof. Paul Muyinda Birevu | ||
1:00 - 2:30pm | Lunch Break | Dr. Eliab Muhindo and Welfare Team | ||
Parallel Panel Presentations | ||||
Venue One | Theme: Blended pedagogical approaches and their impact on the learning cultures after COVID- 19 | Prof. Betty Ezati - UNITE | ||
2:30 - 2:50 pm | Leah Sikoyo: Blended learning experiences of selected graduate students of Makerere University during and after the Covid-19 pandemic | |||
2:50 - 3:10am | Nabiryo Nancy Rosemary: English language teaching in Uganda during the COVID-19 lockdown | |||
3:10 - 3:30pm | Kamukama Charles Godfrey: 3. Exploration of Hybrid Instruction in Learning of Mathematics: Focus on COVID-19 Impact on Teacher Education in Uganda | |||
3:30- 3:50 pm | Karungi Glorious: An Investigation into the effectiveness of blended learning during the lockdown due to the covid-19 pandemic in selected teachers' colleges in Uganda | |||
Venue 2 | Theme: Blended pedagogical approaches and their impact on the learning cultures after COVID-19. | Prof. Kjersti Lea - University of Bergen | ||
Please click the link below to join the webinar: Passcode: 154024 | ||||
2:30- 2:50pm | Josephine Esaete and Speranza Ndege: Teacher trainees experiences in the use of technologies in blended learning: The case of the University of Embu and Makerere University | |||
2:50- 3:10 pm | Medard Kiconco: Harnessing Digital Transformation | |||
3:10-3:30 pm | Egonga Badhaga Saleh: Localising blended learning in the teaching and learning process to address listening challenges: a case of Kaliro NTC, Uganda | |||
3:30- 3:50 pm | Isaac Mbusa: The role of blended learning before, during and after the pandemic | |||
SYMPOSIUM DAY TWO | ||||
9:00-10:00am | Key Note Address 2 Prof. Emily Achieng Akuno: The Changing Trends in Teacher Education for a 21st Century Learner | Dr. Benon Kigozi -Makerere University | ||
10:00-10:30am | Tea/Coffee Break | |||
Parallel Panel Presentations | ||||
Venue One | Theme: Addressing challenges of accessibility to education | Assoc. Prof. Elizabeth Kyazike -Kyambogo University | ||
10:30-10:50 am | Aisha Sheri Wangubo: ICT integration in English language teacher education in Uganda: A case study of Makerere University | |||
10:50- 11:10am | Simon Enou: Use music software and active music learning: A case of students in teacher | |||
11:10- 11:30 am | Milton Wabyona: Uganda Music Teachers’ Clinic (UMTC)for Continuous Professional Development | |||
11:30-11:50 am | Iman Nuludin: The impact of virtual music concerts on learners during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns | |||
11:50-12:10 pm | Azalia Maate: Dynamism of Teacher Competence and the impact of COVID-19 in Teacher Education Institutions in Uganda | |||
12:10-12:30 pm | Pamela Mbabazi: I wanna live my Life:” Music and Communication among University Students under the COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda | |||
12:30- 12:50 pm | James Isabirye: Uganda’s new secondary school music education curriculum: Pedagogical issues and insights from a study of selected schools in Kampala Metropolitan | |||
Venue Two | Theme: COVID-19 19 and Emerging pedagogies in Teacher Education | Dr. Michael Walimbwa | ||
10:30-10:50 am | Kiyemba Fiona: School Based Capacity Building and ICT Integration in Primary Schools in Buikwe District, Eastern Uganda. | |||
10:50- 11:10 am | Helen Apondi and Maurice Norbert Isabwe: Supporting Teachers for Online Teaching During Covid-19 Pandemic | |||
11:10- 11:30 am | Maureen Nabisunsa Nsaali: Teacher Education Influence on Early Grade Reading in selected primary schools in central Uganda | |||
11:30-11:50 am | Walimbwa et al: Resilience of students with visual impairment to learning before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences from Kyambogo and Makerere Universities | |||
11:50- 12:10 am | Diko Raphael and Alfred Buluma: Intercommunal violence and classroom interaction among learners in primary schools in Southern Sudan | |||
12:10- 12:30 pm | Mpoza Rogers: Music skill development during the covid-19 pandemic | |||
12: 30- 12:50 pm | Lawrence Branco Ssekalegga: Factors that affect enrollment, retention and attrition rates of music graduates from Makerere University | |||
1:00 – 2:30 pm | Lunch Break | Dr. Eliab Muhindo and Welfare Team | ||
Venue One | Theme: Addressing challenges of accessibility to education | Dr. Josephine Esaete - Makerere University | ||
2:30-2:50 pm | David Ijiribi: Teacher-Pupil Ratio in Primary Schools in Uganda and Learners’ Overall Academic Performance: A case of Selected Schools in West-Nile Sub-region | |||
2:50- 3:10 pm | Kirabo Esther: Learning continuity with a blended approach during and after the covid-19 pandemic in two selected Primary Teachers’ Colleges in Uganda. | |||
3:10- 3:30pm | Marjorie Sarah Kabuye Batiibwe: Challenges and Adaptations of Education Research during the Pandemic | |||
3:30 – 3:50pm | Peter Mukungu, Henry Ampeire Kariisa and Marjorie Sarah Kabuye Batiibwe: Determinants of Mathematics Teaching Self-Efficacy of Pre-Service Teachers in Primary Teachers’ Colleges in Busoga Sub-Region in Uganda | |||
Venue Two | Capacity Building for research-based Teacher Education Project (CABUTE) Scholars | Dr. Leah Sikoyo – Makerere University | ||
2:30 - 2:50 pm | CABUTE PhD Scholars’ Round table | |||
2:50 - 3:10 pm | CABUTE PhD Scholars’ Round table | |||
3:10 -3:30 pm | CABUTE PhD Scholars’ Round table | |||
3:30-3:50 pm | CABUTE PhD Scholars’ Round table | |||
SYMPOSIUM DAY THREE | ||||
9:00 – 10:00 | Key Note address 3 Prof. David G. Hebert: Music as a Form of Transformative Pedagogy in Teacher Education | Dr. Nicholas Ssempijja | ||
10:00 -10:30 | Coffee/Tea Break | Dr. Eliab Muhindo and Welfare Team | ||
Venue One | Theme: Transformative approaches to learning during and after COVID- 19 | Assoc. Prof. Patrick Mangeni | ||
10:30-10:45 am | Dominic DB Makwa and Dickens Andrew Ahabwe: Reconstructing the Music ‘Classroom’ under the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Primary and Secondary Teaching in Kampala, Uganda | |||
10:45 - 11:00 am | Beatrice Namusiginyi: They All Graduate but are They Relevantly Equipped?” Empowering teachers to teach through an integration of relevant comprehension strategies | |||
11:00- 11:15 am | Erisa Walubo: Music, transformative pedagogy, repertoire, music integration | |||
11:15- 11:30am | Nicholas Ssempijja: Ethnomusicological Scholarship at Makerere and its place within Music ý | |||
11:30-11:45am | Eric Jjemba: The influence of non-formal practices on ethnic dance Pedagogy in higher institutions of learning | |||
11:45 -12:00 noon | Geofrey Kansiime and Marjorie Sarah Kabuye Batiibwe: Exploring Pre-service Teachers’ Behavioural Intention to Adopt Online Learning of Mathematics at Kabale University during the Pandemic | |||
Venue Two | Theme: Music Performance, Identity and Agency | Dr. Milton Wabyona | ||
10:30 -10:45am | Benon Kigozi: Music composition and music education in Uganda | |||
10:45 -11:00 am | Sserunjogi Fred: Nurturing of school aged adolescents at Mityana Miracle Center | |||
11:00 -11:15am | Ibrahim Kibuye: Music performance and representation of Buganda Patriotism by Buddo Secondary School | |||
11:15 - 11:30 am | Kiberu Grace Kinsambwe: Understanding the place of the drum in modern music scholarship | |||
11:30 -11:45am | CABUTE M.A Scholars’ Round table | Dr. James Isabirye | ||
11:45 - 12:00 noon | CABUTE M.A. Scholars’ Round Table | |||
12:00 – 1:00pm | Closing Ceremony | Prof. John Mango | ||
Luncheon | Dr. Eliab Muhindo and Welfare Team | |||