Recurso La neurociencia y el aprendizaje a través del juego: un resumen de la evidencia En este reporte técnico, nuestro análisis de la información biológica y de neurociencia respecto del aprendizaje se centra en cinco características que se utilizan para definir las experiencias educativas de juego: es alegre, significativo, con involucramiento activo, iterativo y socialmente interactivo (véase Zosh et al., 2017).
Blog Education Cannot Wait - investing in our shared humanity World leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York this past week. At the 72nd General Assembly, renewed calls were made for our universal values that laid the foundation for the United Nations. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was at the forefront, such as ending poverty and hunger, achieving gender-equality, and ensuring justice and peace. But how do we get there?
Recurso Journal on Education in Emergencies: Volume 3, Number 1 JEiE Volume 3, Number 1 was published in July 2017. With this new issue of JEiE — which consists of three research articles, one field note, and four book reviews — we return to the positive face of education as we examine its contributions to peacebuilding.
Recurso Field Note: The Potential of Conflict-Sensitive Education Approaches in Fragile Countries: The Case of Curriculum Framework Reform and Youth Civic Participation in Somalia This field note presents the case of the review of the curriculum framework in Somalia, a UNICEF-supported education intervention that intentionally engaged with the drivers of conflict. The note outlines how this mainstream education intervention can help to build a capacity for peace at various levels (individual, group, and policy) in terms of substance and process.
Recurso Book Review: Training for Model Citizenship: Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda by Molly Sundberg In Training for Model Citizenship, Molly Sundberg draws on her ethnographic fieldwork, as well as her experience as a development practitioner for the Swedish International Development Agency, to explore how citizens relate to the state in postgenocide Rwanda.
Recurso Book Review: Partnership Paradox: The Post-Conflict Reconstruction of Liberia's Education System edited by Christopher Talbot and Aleesha Taylor Christopher Talbot and Aleesha Taylor's focus on Liberia’s recent educational history in Partnership Paradox is interesting, given the government’s announcement in 2016 of a new plan to privatize the country’s public pre-primary and primary school school system.
Recurso Book Review: Childhood Deployed: Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone by Susan Shepler Childhood Deployed is based on author Susan Shepler's almost three decades of ethnographic research and other involvements in Sierra Leone. Shepler analyzes the implications of the participation of minors in Sierra Leone’s infamous civil war and the challenges to their postconflict reintegration.
Recurso Book Review: Critical Peace Education and Global Citizenship by Rita Verma Rita Verma’s Critical Peace Education and Global Citizenship is simultaneously inspiring and terrifying—inspiring in the accounts it offers of highly interactive peace education outside the normal curriculum and in possibilities for activism, and terrifying in its exposure of the “Trump Effect” and how this legitimates racism.
Recurso The 4Rs Framework: Analyzing Education's Contribution to Sustainable Peacebuilding with Social Justice in Conflict-Affected Contexts This paper lays out a theoretical and analytical framework for researching and reflecting on the peacebuilding role of education in conflict-affected contexts. The paper addresses the cultural translation of these concepts, highlighting the need for locally embedded interpretations.
Recurso Can Teacher Training Programs Influence Gender Norms? Mixed Methods Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda This mixed-methods cluster-randomized controlled trial examines the impact of a teacher-training program that aimed to promote positive gender socialization in the conflict-affected region of Karamoja, Uganda. The theory of change suggests that the education system and teachers can play critical roles in promoting positive gender roles and gender equality.
