The Occupied Palestinian Territory Education Cluster has published its Response Plan. The purpose of this response plan is to ensure that the children and youth in Gaza can resume their right to learn as soon as possible after the cessation of hostilities, that all education actors do everything possible during the current hostilities to plan for this, and then support the effective resumption of education in Gaza once hostilities stop.
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[Webinar] ‘Young People in the Global South: Voice, Agency and Citizenship’ Book Launch
Date: 22 February 2024.
Time: 13:30 – 15:00 GMT
Location: Online.
The Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme will host a webinar to share and discuss key findings from ‘Young People in the Global South: Voice, agency and citizenship’, a new textbook published by Routledge.
The event will feature contributions by the book’s editors, leading authors and young contributors. We invite participation, reflection and dialogue on the book’s key findings, as well as next steps for policy, research and advocacy on young people’s voice, agency and citizenship in the global South.
Central to the webinar will be five engaging and interactive parallel breakout sessions, co-facilitated by young people, to explore the book’s main themes. Session details are below and can be signed up to at registration.
Translation facility in Arabic, French and Spanish will be available.
[Resource] Teacher wellbeing resource collection
INEE’s website has a substantial collection of resources on teacher wellbeing in emergency settings. The guidance note for teacher wellbeing (May 2022) has been contextualised for Columbia, Kenya, Myanmar and Palestine (January 2023). Other resources like assessment toolkits and training guides are also available for download in various languages including English, French and Arabic.
[Website] International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated on 11 February. This year, UNESCO and UN-Women held an event on 8-9 February.
Read more on the Women and Girls in Science website.
[Blog] Ensuring Refugee inclusion in education systems
Global Partnership for Education has collated a series of blogs featuring views from experts, practitioners and youth leaders on the importance of refugee-inclusive education systems that meet both immediate and long-term needs of all learners. There are five blogs with themes like lessons learned, youth perspectives on refugee education, or financing refugee inclusion.
[Blog] Refugee Children with Disabilities in Uganda: The role of mothers
In this UKFIET blog, Salome, J. Awidi writes about findings from a research project with Gulu University on the role of mothers as agents and advocates. It builds on the presentation Salome gave at the September 2023 UKFIET conference.
[Blog] International Day of Education – climate considerations
CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education) celebrated the International Day of Education (24 January) by highlighting its work on climate education. They also posted the link to the discussion between CAMFED’s CEO Angeline Murimirwa and the UK Minister of State (Development and Africa) Andrew Mitchell MP, which was released on the International Day of Education.
[Webinar] The Impact of the Nagorno Karabakh Conflict on Education
Date: 20 February 2024.
Time: 1 pm to 2 pm GMT.
Location: Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, and online.
A seminar from REAL (Research for Equitable Access and Learning) and the Centre for Lebanese Studies. This seminar will briefly focus on the context of the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh, exploring how recent massive displacement of the Armenian population, cultural-religious identity issues, conflict and a prolonged blockade of Nagorno Karabakh affected the right to education in the region.
[Podcast] Inclusive Education: Unheard Stories – EENET
EENET’s new podcast series, hosted by Ayman Qwaider, features education stakeholders living and working in contexts where learners experience exclusion, marginalisation and oppression.
About episode 1.
Our first episode is a special two-part interview with Dr Mohammed Alruzzi. Mohammed and Ayman reflected on their experiences of education in Gaza, as learners and educators. They discussed what the education system has been like in recent decades. And, of course, they focused on the impact of the current war, which has now killed around 24,000 Palestinians (including learners and their teachers) and destroyed so much infrastructure, including schools and teaching and learning equipment/materials. What will happen to Gaza’s education system?
Listen now via SoundCloud, Spotify and YouTube.
About the podcast series.
Our podcast guests highlight the challenges learners face with accessing and participating in an inclusive, quality education. They discuss teachers and teaching, policy, attitudes, resources and funding, and much more. Guests are also invited to share their ideas for how to achieve an empowering education for everyone. You can listen on SoundCloud or Spotify and some episodes will also have a video option via YouTube.
If you would like to be interviewed for the podcast, or know someone who would, please contact us.
[Conference] BAICE Conference – call for abstracts
Deadline: Monday 11 March 2024, 5 pm (UK time).
Date of conference: 3-5 September 2024.
Location: University of Sussex, Brighton.
Conference theme: Transgression and transformation: (re)bordering education in times of conflict & crises.
BAICE (the British Association of International and Comparative Education) is calling for submissions of individual papers, symposia, workshops, posters/exhibitions and creative sessions for their upcoming conference. All BAICE members, and anyone with an interest in international and comparative education, are welcome to participate in the conference whether they submit an abstract or not.