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I completed my Doctorate in Special and Inclusive education at the University of Exeter in 2015. I now work in the UK as a specialist education assessor and independent researcher who focuses on education, disability and armed conflict.
I am fluent in French. In the past, I have worked on various education and development projects in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burkina Faso and Algeria. I am the author of 'Education, Disability and Armed Conflict: A Theory of Africanising Education in Uganda'.
For more information, please contact me at prb204@exeter.ac.uk or follow me at @DrBusinge.
Supervisors: Professor Brahm Norwich and Dr Hannah Anglin-Jaffe
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This qualitative study set out to gain insight into how children with disabilities were educated ... more This qualitative study set out to gain insight into how children with disabilities were educated in the conflict setting of Uganda and how it could be improved. It used a critical, constructivist and grounded methodology to generate data. There were four main findings. First, it revealed the nature and extent of the challenges faced by all children living in conflict settings: forced displacement, dehumanisation, rampant poverty and weakened leadership. Second, it discovered that disabled people experienced rejection in their communities and invisibility in the provision of services. Whilst these practices prevailed in non-conflict situations, they were intensified in conflict settings and were counter to the African beliefs on what it meant to be human and live in a community. Third, education in Uganda was likened to disabled people and considered ‘crippled’ because of demotivated teachers, disengaged parents, ailing infrastructure and decreasing quality. Fourth and last, particip...
There are three key revelations from literature on disability and armed conflict in the Global So... more There are three key revelations from literature on disability and armed conflict in the Global South. First, though disability is a relative term, models from the Global North are widely used irrespective of indigenous knowledges and contexts. Second, though disability is caused by colonial and post-colonial inequalities such as poverty, disabled people are often forgotten in poverty reduction programmes. Third, while many countries experience armed conflict, little is known about its effects on disabled people living in contexts of armed conflict. This realisation led to the aims of this study which were to: i) investigate how disability is understood in the armed conflict setting of Uganda; ii) to understand the experiences of disabled people in armed conflict settings; and iii) examine ways of improving the experience of disabled people in the Global South. Using a critical, constructivist and grounded research methodology, the study revealed the nature of ‘African disabilities’ ...
This qualitative study set out to gain insight into how children with disabilities were educated ... more This qualitative study set out to gain insight into how children with disabilities were educated in the conflict setting of Uganda and how it could be improved. It used a critical, constructivist and grounded methodology to generate data. There were four main findings. First, it revealed the nature and extent of the challenges faced by all children living in conflict settings: forced displacement, dehumanisation, rampant poverty and weakened leadership. Second, it discovered that disabled people experienced rejection in their communities and invisibility in the provision of services. Whilst these practices prevailed in non-conflict situations, they were intensified in conflict settings and were counter to the African beliefs on what it meant to be human and live in a community. Third, education in Uganda was likened to disabled people and considered ‘crippled’ because of demotivated teachers, disengaged parents, ailing infrastructure and decreasing quality. Fourth and last, particip...
There are three key revelations from literature on disability and armed conflict in the Global So... more There are three key revelations from literature on disability and armed conflict in the Global South. First, though disability is a relative term, models from the Global North are widely used irrespective of indigenous knowledges and contexts. Second, though disability is caused by colonial and post-colonial inequalities such as poverty, disabled people are often forgotten in poverty reduction programmes. Third, while many countries experience armed conflict, little is known about its effects on disabled people living in contexts of armed conflict. This realisation led to the aims of this study which were to: i) investigate how disability is understood in the armed conflict setting of Uganda; ii) to understand the experiences of disabled people in armed conflict settings; and iii) examine ways of improving the experience of disabled people in the Global South. Using a critical, constructivist and grounded research methodology, the study revealed the nature of ‘African disabilities’ ...