Educators for Change

Description

**This course is ranked amongest the top 5 most engaging courses on Edraak in terms of discussions!**

In conflict-affected contexts and protracted crises, teachers are a key resource available to support vulnerable children. Children in refugee contexts live in complex social, political and emotional conditions that create barriers for a stable life and learning environment. Teachers of refugee children require a deep understanding of the societal conditions that their students live in, and knowledge and skills to deal with sensitive issues that may be related to difficulties they face. Such children and young people may have been victims of violence, may have been traumatized, and, in some cases, have lost parents or relatives. These circumstances can have an enormous impact on their emotional wellbeing as well as their ability to learn.

This course will help teachers find practical solutions that build on their innovative pedagogical practices and contextual knowledge relating to education. It will do this by enabling participants to exchange tried and tested teaching methods based on their real experiences of teaching in crisis contexts, and support them to become transformative educators. The course takes the form of an open, online collaboration for all teachers and education practitioners working in these challenging conditions to share their experiences, skills and models of good practice to tackle the problems together.

What you’ll learn

Adapt the learning spaces to respond to the diverse profiles of children/young people and contribute to making education as a transformative process

Work with the diversity of children and young people’s experiences in the learning spaces to build on their strengths and respond to the challenges to learning

Reclaim teaching as a profession that promotes an understanding of inclusive prosperity and life with dignity and a hope for a better future

Engage in the process of co-design and sharing effective educational practices and experiences using digital platforms

Promote inclusive pedagogical practices among educators who work in the context of mass displacement