Call for articles for EENET's 2010 newsletter
The theme for the 2010 newsletter will be:
water, sanitation and inclusive education
The issue of access to suitable toilet facilities and water supplies can have a big impact on whether or not children attend school, or perform well when they are there.
Inaccessible and unsafe toilet facilities, lacking privacy and good hygiene, and inadequate or dirty water supplies affect all learners, but may pose particular barriers to disabled children and to girls. Schools which have no toilet facilities may experience higher drop-out levels, especially as children get older. Schools that cannot provide their pupils with safe drinking water find that learners struggle to concentrate in class when they are thirsty, or miss classes in order to fetch water from elsewhere.
EENET's staff have been focusing on the issue of how school water and sanitation arrangements impact on the inclusion of children in education for some time. Now we want to hear what you think!
We are looking for newsletter articles that focus on:
- research into how water and sanitation facilities can make learners feel either welcome or unwelcome in school
- pupils' opinions about water and sanitation facilities and the links with their participation and achievement in school
- afe and appropriate facilities for girls, and the impact of such facilities on their participation and achievement in education
- accessible facilities for disabled learners in mainstream schools, in particular studying low-cost solutions developed by pupils, parents, teachers and community members
- food hygiene issues in schools (e.g. illness resulting from unsafe food preparation and storage can mean some pupils miss lessons or fail to concentrate)
- the impact on education of water and sanitation facilities within the community (e.g. many children have to walk long distances to fetch water for their family, leaving them too tired to participate in lessons)
- making hygiene education in schools more effective and ensuring it is accessible to all groups of learners
- the impact of improved school water and sanitation on children's education and well-being - positive and negative, intended and unintended impacts.
If you are not an experienced writer, don't worry. Send us your ideas and we will try to help you to develop these ideas into an article.
ou may also find it helpful to look at some previous newsletter articles when you are developing ideas for your own article. If you don't already have copies of "Enabling Education", please ask us to send you some, or look at the newsletters online.
We really encourage you to send us articles that have been researched/written by, or in collaboration with, children and young people. We also always welcome articles that make use of drawings, photos, etc.
Number of words: articles should be about 600 words long.
Deadline: first drafts or article ideas should be sent to us by 31st March 2010
Images: if you would like us to print a photograph or drawing with your article, please send us either the original print/drawing or email us a high resolution digital image.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Contact details:
Ingrid Lewis
ENET Co-ordinator
EENET
c/o ESI, School of Education
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
UK
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