Robert Jjuuko
Organisation MY CAREER UGANDA
Country Uganda
Region Africa
Sector Research / Academia
Position/Job title Associate Director
My experience in adult learning and education
Robert Jjuuko is a researcher, educationist and development consultant with profound methodological and theoretical expertise in education and training of socially disadvantaged young people and adults. A graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa with a Master of Education, he holds a Bachelor of Adult and Community Education Degree from Makerere University, Uganda. The foundation of his adult education lenses are traceable from his more than 5 years’ experience as a community adult literacy tutor in Mukono district; and his diploma in adult education course at Taasisi Ya Elimu Ya Watu Wazima (Institute of Adult Education, Dar es Salaam) during the late 1990s. In his more than 15 years as a practicing adult educator, he has actively steered and supported the founding and functioning of a couple of local, national and global civil society institutions for social and ecological justice. He has university teaching experience in community development, research methodologies, community education and project planning and management. His academic interests include adult education research and practice, youth transition, vocational pedagogy, workplace learning, and action research for individual emancipation and social change. He defended his thesis titled ‘Youth transition, agricultural education and employment in Uganda: Freeing individual agency’ on 4 November 2021 at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands
