Learning on the margins: An assessment of learner and educator well-being outcomes in the midst of and following contagion and conflict in Palestine

Learning on the Margins has been a four-year research study conducted by the University of Auckland (UoA) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) with the support of the European Civilian Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations office (ECHO). The research has focussed around four main objectives:

1. To understand how educational vulnerability is currently understood and measured by a range of stakeholders across the occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT);
2. To explore the interrelationship between the predominant definition of educational vulnerability and student and teacher well-being outcomes, and test the assumption that there is a relationship between these;
3. To investigate how student and teacher well-being outcomes have shifted over successive academic years (four years for students, two years for teachers), particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic; and
4. As part of Objectives 2 and 3, develop a set of tools to measure well-being outcomes for both these groups, and which can continue to be used to assess school-level vulnerability from an outcome-based perspective.

This report summarises what has been found and produced in relation to the above objectives. It begins by briefly outlining the background and context for this report, which follows on an earlier one published in 2021 from the first stage of the research. Following this, the methodology by which each of the objectives was pursued is also described. The remainder of the report then presents key findings—and specifically how student and teacher well-being have changed over successive years, as well as whether this is sufficiently reflected in current measures