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JEiE Special Issue on Early Childhood Development in Emergencies

The latest issue of `Journal on Education in Emergencies` (JEiE) – Volume 7, Number 1 – focuses on the early development of young children in emergencies, and raises awareness to some lessons that are being learned. This is relevant as more and more children are being born into crises, which can negatively impact their lives. This publication includes research articles, field notes, book reviews, and commentaries.

The full text of each article is available in English, with the abstract and title of each article being available in Arabic, French, Portuguese, and Spanish as well as English.

This issue of JEiE, along with previous issues, can be downloaded for free from the INEE website.

Teachers as agents for change for inclusive education webinar

Date: Tuesday 29 June 2021.

Time: 12:30-13:35 CEST.

Hosts: Network of Education Policy Centres, European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education and International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030.

Register online.

This interactive webinar will highlight the efforts and activities of teachers across the Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia region who work hard to make sure every child has the right to go to school and learn, regardless of who they are and where they live. Sharing these experiences means that insights can be provided into innovative practices that are mentioned in the regional report, and networks of teachers, that are working hard to overcome barriers restricting inclusive education, can be connected.

This event will be held in English, and led by teachers from Croatia, Albania, Turkey, Bosnia, and Herzegovina.

Inclusive Education for Migrants and Refugees

Date: Thursday 24 June 2021.

Time: 11:00 GMT/07:00 EST/13:00 CET.

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Because of increasing conflicts, there has been a rise in the numbers of migrants and refugees; so this virtual event will mainly focus on the importance of national education programs and policies that can support inclusive education for migrants and refugees. This is even more relevant now as access to social services during the pandemic have been halted and discrimination has been worsened. The speakers at the panel will share good practices in education to help contribute to preventing further discrimination and rupture of the social fabric.

Speakers:

Dr. Angeliki Aroni – Head, Unit for Integration and Support, Special Secretariat for the Protection of Unaccompanied Minors, Ministry of Migration and Asylum, Greece.

Ms. Afshan Khan – UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, andSpecial Coordinator, Refugee and Migrant Response in Europe.

Ms. Maria Lucia Uribe – Executive Director, Arigatou International Geneva.

Ms. Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta – Director, UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa.

Mr. Javed Natiq – Education Sector Lead, World Vision Afghanistan.

Enhancing inclusive and equitable quality education among boys and girls

Date: Thursday 17 June 17 2021.

Time: 1:15-2:30pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)/6:15pm-7:30pm BST.

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This free online event aims to discuss how development and humanitarian actors are trying to address the existing gaps in inclusive education for boys and girls with disabilities, which have been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, and work on ways to improve education access to these children. The speakers will present approaches that can help fill in existing knowledge gaps on the learning of boys and girls with disabilities, their learning environment, and how it meets their needs. Evidence and case studies, that concern the programming on education and how disability inclusion has been embedded in both design and implementation, will also be talked about.

The event will be available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish, with closed captions and ASL interpretation provided.

Launch of JEiE Special Issue on ECD in Emergencies

Date: 23 June 2021.

Time: 9-10:30am EDT.

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This virtual event focuses on early childhood development (ECD) in emergencies and will feature contributing authors, issue editors, and guest speakers drawing attention to the efforts that address the needs of young children and families living in humanitarian situations. Lessons learnt from these efforts will also be shared. The articles that will be featured look at ECD in a range of different ways: education, health and nutrition, child protection, mental health and psychosocial support, and response caregiving.

This webinar will be hosted in English and have English live captions.

Speakers (main panel):

  • Jonathan Seiden, PhD student at Harvard Graduate School of Education, presenting “Effects of Two Early Childhood Interventions on the Developmental Outcomes of Children in Post-Earthquake Nepal”.
  • Fabiola Lara, Senior Specialist on Early Childhood Care and Development at Save the Children, presenting “Building Resilience and Mitigating the Impact of Toxic Stress in Young Children: A Model for Transforming Parenting and Male Caregiving in El Salvador”.
  • Ayat Al Aqra, Early Childhood Development Manager for the Ahlan Simsim program in Jordan, and Katelin Swing Wilton, Senior Specialist in Early Childhood Development at International Rescue Committee, co-presenting “Home Visiting in the Middle East: Reflections on the Implementation of Reach Up and Learn”.
  • Samier Mansur, co-founder of LiveSafe mobile safety app and founder of No Limit Generation, presenting, “Accessible Strategies to Support Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing in Emergencies: Experience from the Rohingya Refugee Camp”.

CoSP14 side-event: Building Back Better: Accessibility in Inclusive Education

Date: Thursday 17 June 2021.

Time: 3:00pm-4:15pm EST.

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This virtual event will focus on UNICEF’s new accessible digital resources for education catalogue. These resources are made for classrooms, home learning, and on-the-go learning; including tools and content to support inclusive education in all of these areas. They are specifically made or found to ensure they can be used in both low and high-resource environments, span open-source to paid solutions, and showcase a range of approaches for the production, distribution, and implementation of accessible digital content for education.

CoSP14 side-event: Making Disability-Inclusive Education a Priority

Date: Wednesday 16 June 16 2021.

Time: 10:00am to 11:15am EST.

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This virtual COSP side-event will share lessons and experiences from The World’s Bank’s programs, such as ways to put disability-inclusive education into action, in the context of low-income countries.

There will be International Sign and live captioning available for this event.

Speakers:

  • Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, Global Disability Advisor, The World Bank.
  • Shwetlena Sabarwal, Senior Economist, The World Bank (Nepal).
  • Mupuwaliywa Mupuwaliywa, Economist, The World Bank (Zambia).
  • Nancy Mendy, Principal Education Officer, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, The Gambia.

** Deadline expired ** Consultancy: Revision of Special Education and Development Needs Assessment Toolkit – UNICEF, Armenia

Application deadline: 26 May 2021.

UNICEF Armenia has published a Request for Proposal (RFP) for an institutional consultancy on technical support to the Republican Pedagogical Psychological Center (RPPC) for Revision of the Special Education and Development Needs Assessment Toolkit.

Read the full Request for Proposals.

 

 

* Reminder * EER 9 on ‘Inclusive early childhood development and education’ now available

Don’t forget to have a look at our latest edition of Enabling Education Review. The articles cover a diverse selection of examples of making early childhood education and development more inclusive for all young learners.

Featured countries include:

England, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia.

Read EER9 in HTML format or in PDF format.

Call for Articles: Enabling Education Review Issue 10, 2021

Over the last year we have all found ourselves in an unusual situation. Our theme for the next edition therefore draws on the work being done to support children’s learning as we have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and school closures. It will also look at the broader context of what it means to learn at home.

The theme for the 2021 edition of Enabling Education Review will be:

“Home learning”

The deadline for submitting first drafts of articles is 31 March 2021. Details of suggested topics and how to submit articles are provided in the full call for articles.

Call for Articles (Arabic).

Contact info@eenet.org.uk with any questions.