Blog COVID-19 and school closures: What can countries learn from past emergencies? The education in emergencies community can offer good practices for countries battling COVID-19 where education has been disrupted for a protracted period.
Resource Alternate Education Service Delivery COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan This emergency response plan for COVID-19 pandemic has been prepared in order to use the existing resources and capacity of MoE and through various innovative ways, continue the education service delivery to students at their homes.
Resource Journal on Education in Emergencies: Volume 5, Number 2 The second part of the JEiE special issue on refugees and education focuses on opportunities and outcomes in refugee education as they connect to rights, funding actors, literacy, belonging, and teacher development.
Resource Editorial Note: Journal on Education in Emergencies: Volume 5, Number 2 In this editorial note, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Jo Kelcey, and S. Garnett Russell—lead editors of the special issue—identify the key themes that emerge among the articles in JEiE Volume 5, Number 2.
Resource Exploring the Enforceability of Refugees’ Right to Education: A Comparative Analysis of Human Rights Treaties Authors Sarah Horsch Carsley and S. Garnett Russell identify why the three treaties that address refugees’ right to education are among the least enforceable in international human rights law.
Resource Are Refugee Children Learning? Early Grade Literacy in a Refugee Camp in Kenya Authors Benjamin Piper, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Vidur Chopra, Celia Reddick, and Arbogast Oyanga reveal that literacy outcomes for youth in the lower primary grades who live in Kakuma refugee camp are lower than those of their disadvantaged peers in a nearby host community.
Resource Refugee Students’ Academic Motivation in Displacement: The Case of Kakuma Refugee Camp Author Jihae Cha finds that a sense of belonging at school is the strongest predictor of academic motivation among 664 primary school students living in Kakuma refugee camp.
Resource Educators for Change: Supporting the Transformative Role of Teachers in Contexts of Mass Displacement Authors Tejendra Pherali, Mai Abu Moghli, and Elaine Chase argue that teachers can support refugee students’ future trajectories more effectively when their local knowledge, capacities, and creativity are mobilized.
Resource The Emerging Role of Corporate Actors as Policymakers in Education in Emergencies: Evidence from the Syria Refugee Crisis Authors Zeena Zakharia and Francine Menashy suggest that a surge in corporate support of refugee education has increased the private authority of corporate actors in education in emergencies policy spaces.
Resource Book Review: "Global Education Monitoring Report 2019: Migration, Displacement and Education—Building Bridges, Not Walls" by the Global Education Monitoring Report Team In this review of the 2019 "Global Education Monitoring Report," Bethany Mulimbi gives an overview of the report, including the multiple ways education and migration relate to each other.
