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Simone Marie Itoh de Medeiros
| | Posted on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 11:18 pm: | |
What are your experiences on Education Programmes for children, adolescents and adults from communities under critic circumstances? |
Wangui Nganga
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 10:53 am: | |
The convenient way to handle such circumtances would be to work with the communities. Most times, programmes set for them do not accomodate their circumstances, for e.g. if in traumatic situations, not relevant in this instance among other situations.
Further, education programmes have to take into account the suitability and relevance of both males and females. Education should be a tool that is empowering to both and also emphasises on self-reliance. This is more so when we are talking about education for girls and women.
For older children, we need to think about alternative methods of education. Here, i have in mind examples of COPE and ABEK in Uganda. I believe it is not necessary to put a 15 yr old with a 6 yr old just because the latter never joined an ECD class.
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Amalia Fawcett
| | Posted on Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 11:41 am: | |
There is a website called the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies with suggestions and examples about how to set up affective and participatory education in crisis situations. It has resources for the setting of curricula, hiring of teachers and which school structures work best in the Network's opinion.
The address is www.ineesite.org
There are also articles and reports on best practices on the UNHCR website under the heading "Policy and Evaluations".
One thing you must be vigilant about is protection of the child from the perspective of how the curricula are designed--they need to be supportive of the child's culture, language and social structure. There is also a danger of always viewing the child as traumatised, as children have resources to assist their own resilience and these should be encouraged by the education structure. |
Admira Onyenze
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 12:29 pm: | |
Posted on Tuesday, February 04/ 2003
School feeding program attract children to school and keep them there.Parent every where are concerned about their children's education even though there may be conflict in the community. To build community participation in school feeding programmes. The aim has been for local communities to assume reponsibility for running school canteens when food aid assistance comes to an end. Participation most often takes the form of in - kind contributions vegetables, condiments and other items use to complement food aid commodities supplied, fuelwood for cooking,or voluntary work, food preparation and serving,fetching water and the like. With innovative approaches to mobilization community participation in Lesotho, for example, a school self - reliance project (SSRP) has been developed as one component of World Food Programme (WFP) assisted School feeding programme. Activities, many of which engage parents on a food for work basis include maintenance of school garden, construction of water system and access roads,and the raising of small animals.Schools in the SSRP programme have noted increased community participation in educational activities. In Dominican Republic, a department of community participation has been created within the governments structures, with officials posted throughtout the country. The officials train members of parent associations and friends of the schools in community participation skills. Activities include the maintance of school building,school nutrition and school feeding. The parent associations have already assumed primary responsibility for mainenanace in many schools as well as cooperating with schools directors and teachers in the management of school feeding programmes. This participation can also lead to other development activities. School Feeding Programmes can provide a base for community activities and generally Stimulates a commual sense of responsibilty and Solidarity. |
Rebecca Winthrop
| | Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 05:35 pm: | |
The IRC has education programs in over 20 countries of crisis, protracted refugee contexts, and post-conflict situations. We have a wide variety of experience in africa, asia, the balkans and caucases. But perhaps a good starting point for people is general information on education in emergencies.
There are two web resources that could be helping in finding out more about the field. The Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is a network of ngos, UN agencies and individuals who have developed a great web resource on this topic: www.ineesite.org. The IRC is a leading member of this network. I would also suggest you visit our website, but it is currently under revision. There are some resources and information there currently but the site will have a lot more information (and be organized differently) in about a month or so (www.theirc.org). Another excellent review of refugee education situations and programs can be found on the UNHCR publications website. A book entitled Learning for a Future: Refugee Education in Developing Countries is available on line at http://www.unhcr.ch/pubs/epau/learningfuture/learningtoc.htm
Hope this helps.
Rebecca Winthrop
Education Program Manager
Children Affected by Armed Conflict Unit
International Rescue Committee
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Silva Ferretti
| | Posted on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 12:26 pm: | |
UNHCR published "Learning for a future: refugee education in developing countries". The book is available on line at http://www.unhcr.ch/pubs/epau/learningfuture/learningtoc.htm
Chapter one is about "education in emergencies" and reviews approaches to education in a wide range of emergency situations not limited to refugees. |
Maureen W. McClure
Guest
| | Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2003 - 11:08 pm: | |
There is an entire field of crisis education that has been developing over the last few years.
Please discover http://www.ginie.org and try our search engine at http://www.ginie.org/search
Also please consider joining the Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies. Information about joining and materials can be found at http://www.ineesite.org |
Baboucar Sohna
Guest
| | Posted on Saturday, July 26, 2003 - 10:33 pm: | |
Education Specialist
Community Development
Languages:English/French/Arabic |
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