Discover tools to support learners in conflict and crisis settings and the teaching strategies that consider their complex needs.
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Understanding Education in Conflict and Crisis Settings
Gain research-informed teaching strategies in the context of mass displacement
On this three-week course, you’ll gain theoretical and practical knowledge of teaching in the context of mass displacement. You’ll learn approaches and techniques that will help you both practically in the classroom and to better understand the role of a teacher in these challenging settings.
You’ll create and share ways of supporting your learners, despite limited resources. Through discussions and exercises, you’ll design approaches that consider your learners’ complex needs and social contexts.
Understand how you can improve learning environments
You’ll start by exploring and responding to the challenges of being an educator in conflict settings.
Then, you’ll learn to imagine and create change with limited resources and assess whether technology can enhance the learning environment.
Learn to promote access to education in conflict settings
Next, you’ll delve deeper into understanding education within conflict and displacement contexts.
You’ll gain insights into different educational theories and how to apply them in practice to connect school life to the broader society.
Furthermore, you’ll learn to gather your learners’ perspectives, understand their hopes and dreams, and create a safe and supporting learning environment. Reflecting on these experiences will be crucial for developing actionable strategies.
Gain a deeper understanding of emotional and social learning (SEL)
Finally, you’ll understand essential SEL concepts and how to support learners’ emotional wellbeing and development through various educational strategies, including counselling.
You’ll move from principles to actions by designing and implementing supportive learning activities. At the end of the course, you’ll reflect on your learning and consider how to further develop effective educational strategies.
Syllabus
Week 1
Imagining change
Understanding the challenge for educators
Introducing the focus of the course
Education in conflict settings
Thinking about how conflict affects education
Creating a supportive learning environment
Ideas for making small but important changes
A framework for understanding learning
Using the Conversational Framework to lay the foundations for learning
Reflecting on the week
We invite you to exchange your reflections with the course team
Week 2
Education in context
Thinking more about education in conflict settings
Different ways of thinking about education in conflict settingns
A theory to help us think about learners in context
Introduction to Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory
Applying the theories to our practice
Applying the theories to understanding education in conflict settings
Understanding learner perspectives
Create spaces where we can hear directly from our learners
Reflecting on the week
Reflections on this week's learning
Week 3
Social and emotional learning
Exploring social and emotional learning
This week we focus onSocial and Emotional Learning, and we use this approach to create supportive learning environments in settings affected by violent conflict and mass displacement.
From principles to action
Putting our principles into practice
Peer review
In this step you will creatively design a supportive learning activity.
Reflecting on the week
This week we extended the theoretical foundations of teaching to consider social and emotional learning, and how it makes a difference to what teachers do in the classroom.
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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Learning on this course
If you'd like to take part while our educators are leading the course, they'll be joining the discussions, in the comments, between these dates:
- 3 Feb 2025 - 21 Feb 2025
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Modify learning spaces to respond to the diverse characteristics of children and young people
- Engage with children and young people from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences, helping them to build on their strengths and respond to challenges in their learning
- Reflect on teaching as a profession that promotes an understanding of inclusive prosperity and life with dignity and hope for a better future
- Collaborate and share effective educational practices and experiences using digital tools and platforms
- Apply relevant theories to support teaching practice
- Practice and promote inclusive approaches to teaching
- Design learning experiences creatively with available media and technologies
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for those interested in education in challenging environments, such as:
- Teachers working in the contexts of mass displacement (such as teachers on the Thai-Myanmar border) who are looking to evidence their professional development
- Teachers in any context affected by mass displacement, who work in both formal and non-formal education (that is, both private and public sector schools and those run by NGOs) and face challenging contexts where children come from different marginalised backgrounds
- Teachers who are themselves refugees
- Education practitioners who may not be originally trained as teachers but who support learning in response for a need created by mass displacement
- Teachers who teach in non-formal settings and do not have an opportunity to obtain pre-service or in-service training
- University students who are completing their education degrees and aim to or are expected to work in challenging contexts such as protracted crises and acute emergencies
- Volunteers who work with development and humanitarian agencies in the field of education
Who will you learn with?
I am a Research Fellow - Education in Contexts of Mass Displacement, at UCL, and a learning designer in higher education.
Naing Win is a Teacher Educator with a decade of experience in educational programs for migrant learners from Myanmar in Thailand. He aims to provide accredited and quality education to teachers.
Professor of Education, Conflict and Peace
IOE, University College London. Tejendra's research focuses on politics of education in conflict and protracted-crisis settings.
Professor in Education, Wellbeing and International Development at UCL Institute of Education and one of the educators on the course. I look forward to working with you !
A teacher educator at The Inclusive Education Foundation, he has been working to support migrant, refugee, and ethnic teachers along the Thai-Myanmar border.
Dr. Greg Tyrosvoutis is the Co-Founder and Director of The Inclusive Education Foundation and it’s TeacherFOCUS program. He has lived and worked on the Thai-Myanmar border for the past 14 years.
Professor at UCL Knowledge Lab, IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. Eileen's reesearch focuses on online learning, pedagogy, technology and future digital education.
Chan is an early career researcher and research trainer at the Inclusive Education Foundation. His research interests lie in education in emergencies and conflict.
Sa Phyo Arkar Myo Hlaing is an education specialist at the Inclusive Education Foundation. He has over five years of experience working in Myanmar's education sector.
Chair of Learning with Digital Technology, Knowledge Lab, UCL IOE.
Developing a global community of teachers around the Learning Designer
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Choose the best way to learn for you!
Subscribe & save
$244.99 for a whole year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$54/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
Limited access
Free
Sample the course materials
- Access expires 26 Feb 2025
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