Journal on Education in Emergencies: Volume 6, Number 1

The Journal on Education in Emergencies aims to stimulate research and debate about education in emergencies; promote learning informed by evidence; define knowledge gaps and key trends for future research; and publish rigorous scholarly and practitioner work that will set standards for evidence in the field.

CoverIn this special issue on education and the war on drugs, we present five research articles, one field note, and two book reviews. The contributors to this issue examine the influence of the war on drugs along the continuum of drug manufacture, distribution, commerce, and consumption as experienced by students, families, educators, school officials, and policymakers.

The contributors to this issue offer new conceptual frames for understanding notions of war, crisis, and emergency, and provide robust evidence of the effects counternarcotics efforts have on students’ and families’ decision to continue pursuing an education. They offer practical insights into the study of the illicit and highlight the need for inclusive points of view to reveal the unseen effects of perpetual emergencies.

The full JEiE Volume 6, Number 1, is available in English and Spanish. Additionally, each article can be downloaded in both languages by clicking on the titles below.

 

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The Educational Nexus to the War on Drugs: A Systematic Review

Authors Diana Rodríguez-Gómez and Maria Jose Bermeo suggest that gaps in education scholarship leave the EiE field with only limited understanding of how the war on drugs shapes education priorities.

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When Emergency Becomes Everyday Life: Revisiting a Central EiE Concept in the Context of the War on Drugs

Author Roozbeh Shirazi argues that complicating notions of emergency and crisis may expand the visible scope of action and resolve ethical blind spots and impasses in the EiE field.

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The Effects of Aerial Spraying of Coca Crops on Child Labor, School Attendance, and Educational Lag in Colombia, 2008-2012

Author Claudia Rodriguez demonstrates that aerial spraying to eradicate coca is associated with a higher likelihood that older siblings living in the affected areas will leave school to go to work.

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“Pedagogy of Conversion” in the Urban Margins: Pacification, Education, and the Struggle for Control in a Rio de Janeiro Favela

Author Sara Koenders investigates how police-sponsored education activities created competition for community allegiance between the state and drug cartel operators in a Rio de Janeiro favela

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“If you don’t have an education, you are no one”: Understanding the School Experiences of Youth Involved in Drug-Related Crime in Ciudad Juárez and Medellín

Authors Cirenia Chavez Villegas and Elena Butti call attention to how school practices limit the right to education and “push out” students who live on the margins of capitalism and legality.

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Field Note: Catalyst: Expanding Harm-Reduction Education and Youth Participation in the Context of the War on Drugs

Author Theo Di Castri argues for an innovative harm-reduction curriculum that engages youth at the frontlines of the war on drugs in transformative and sustainable grassroots action.

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Book Review: The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards by Nancy A. Heitzeg

In this review of The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards by Nancy A. Heitzeg, Jennifer Otting highlights various mechanisms, such as zero-tolerance school discipline policies, that shape the educational crisis for students of color.

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Book Review: Political Socialization of Youth: A Palestinian Case Study by Janette Habashi

In this review of Political Socialization of Youth: A Palestinian Case Study by Janette Habashi, Jo Kelcey discusses the harm done by ignoring oppression within education structures while building interventions.