Understanding Education in Conflict and Crisis Settings
Discover tools to support learners in conflict and crisis settings and the teaching strategies that consider their complex needs, from University College London.
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3 weeks
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Introducing the focus of the course
Thinking about how conflict affects education
Ideas for making small but important changes
Using the Conversational Framework to lay the foundations for learning
We invite you to exchange your reflections with the course team
Different ways of thinking about education in conflict settingns
Introduction to Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory
Applying the theories to understanding education in conflict settings
Create spaces where we can hear directly from our learners
Reflections on this week's 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.
Putting our principles into practice
In this step you will creatively design a supportive learning activity.
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.
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