22 February 2023

Thematic Focus: Education - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Learning Never Stops: Paving the Way for Inclusive Education for All Children (Samuel Hall Stories, Jan. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on internally displaced children in Afghanistan.

Thousands of Refugee Students Cut off from Classes in Lebanon (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2023) [text]

New open access books:

The Making of Teachers in the Age of Migration: Critical Perspectives on the Politics of Education for Refugees, Immigrants and Minorities
(Bloomsbury, 2023) [open access]
- "With curricula of teacher education – like school curricula – remaining highly affirmative of localized traditions and styles of reasoning, in times of migration movement, teacher education needs to be reframed to become a global issue. The book's contributions cover manifold facets of how the idea of what makes a teacher is being reframed, touching upon theoretical foundations of perceptions of the teaching profession and concrete analyses of measures to bring internationally trained teachers into systems or make them part thereof. Chapters elaborate on how non-local teachers find their way around and are being treated by pointing to what hinders their (successful) re-entry and how other non- or differently-trained personnel receive preferred treatment. Other contributions focus on strategies teachers apply to deal with ever-growing levels of diversity among students."

Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education: Now What?
(Springer, March 2023) [open access]
- "This open access book is a nuanced introduction to Forced Migration Studies and a toolkit for faculty and undergraduate students, with a special emphasis on community-engaged learning. Experts from the social sciences, humanities, arts, and experimental sciences offer interdisciplinary perspectives to translate critical analysis into concrete action. The collection highlights activists, artists, and educators who have initiated projects in cooperation with and for the benefit of populations affected by migration and displacement. Together, these contributions powerfully articulate the relevance of the liberal arts and social sciences in preparing students to meet increasingly interconnected global challenges such as forced migration, climate change, and Covid-19."

Reports:

Education Access for the Forcibly Displaced: during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic (UNHCR, Oct. 2022) [text]
- "An assessment of forcibly displaced learners in education activities and their return to school in the aftermath of the pandemic in select countries."

Education and Child Protection: a Review of Good Practice on Inter-Sectoral Collaboration in Humanitarian Settings (Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Dec. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, in response to the call for contributions on the right to education, advances and challenges (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, Jan. 2023) [text]

Resource: 

Humanitarian Education Accelerator (UNHCR) [access]
- This programme provided funding to "23 humanitarian education innovations in 8 countries. The innovations have ranged from digital to play-based interventions, covering early childhood up to tertiary education." HEA is now winding down but it recently published the following two "lessons learned" papers: 1) Learning Paper: Financing Scale in Humanitarian Education Innovation (Dec. 2022); 2) Humanitarian Education Accelerator: Learning Synthesis (Feb. 2023)

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