Date: 30 January 2024.
Time: 4pm GMT (11am EST).
Location: online.
A webinar from the Luminos Method Series: Joyful Learning: Why children everywhere learn best when they are happy. Education experts discuss how we can build children’s love for learning and prepare them for lifelong success.
The Luminos Fund runs catch-up education programs for some of the most vulnerable children in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
These short YouTube videos show Kenyan Sign Language explained and used by teachers and learners. They were made for children (early years) by Action for Children with Disabilities Society. There is one introductory video for teachers, parents and deaf learners on how to use the videos and five videos explaining word groups like greetings, colours and parts of the body.
Deaf Child Worldwide shared these videos recently and we wanted to share them with you. If you know of similar resources for deaf learners, please let us know the details and links.
This joint REAL Centre/Centre for Lebanese Studies seminar series tackles multiple and interrelated injustices in the Global South, which manifest in war and genocide, and their interconnection with environmental degradation and resource conflict.
Check the details of each event for locations and online participation options.
Dates: 26-29 February 2024.
Time: 10:00 to 12:00 GMT.
Platform: Zoom, with an online learning portal for independent study.
This free course is for educators who work with deaf children in developing countries.
Topics covered include:
Participant numbers will be limited to 20 to ensure maximum participation and learning.
Date: 20 January 2024.
Time: 1-3pm GMT.
Location: Cambridge, CB3 9P and online.
The Centre for Lebanese Studies and the REAL Centre, in association with the National Education Union and the Cambridge University and College Union, invite educators and students to a hybrid event.
Issues to be discussed:
Registration will close at 1pm on Friday, 19 January 2024.
Details of how to join online or in-person in Cambridge will be emailed on Friday 19 January 2024.
Date: 20 December 2023.
Time: 12:00 UTC.
Platform: Zoom.
This webinar aims to raise awareness and advocate for the protection of educational institutions and the right to education for Palestinian learners. It will shed light on the current challenges faced by educators and learners in Gaza. It is a call for international attention and support for the right to education in Gaza, along with recommendations for actionable steps to protect educational institutions, learners, and school personnel in conflict zones. Panelists will include representatives from UNRWA, the Palestine Education Cluster, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA), teachers in Gaza, and others.
This web event will be conducted in Arabic and English with simultaneous interpretation between these languages.
This article published on LinkedIn discusses how it is not just the number of years spent in a classroom that makes a teacher experienced in special and inclusive education. Their experience depends on constant learning, adaptability, problem-solving, critical thinking and innovation.
Read: Experience in Special and Inclusive Teaching: Beyond the Count of Years
Note: You may need to have a LinkedIn account to access this article.
Humanity & Inclusion’s new report illustrates how education systems need to become more inclusive for children and youth with disabilities and, at the same time, more resilient to cope with crises and ensure education in all settings and circumstances.
Read: Always Included: Uninterrupted education for children with disabilities before, during, and after a crisis in English and French.
School-related gender-based violence is a major obstacle to gender equity in education, manifesting in various ways, from biased language, to discriminatory gender roles, and even physical violence.
This brief by UN Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) shows the importance of considering gender in efforts to prevent and respond to school violence, exploring the use of existing measurement tools to estimate the extent and scope of gender-based violence in schools.
Read: School violence: Why gender matters and how to measure school-related gender-based violence.
Disability is a new dimension that has been added in 2023 to the World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE), which brings together household survey and learning assessment data from over 170 countries. The database was first created in 2010 to draw attention to education inequality levels between and within countries.
Read more in this blog from UNESCO.
