Workshop: Education in fragile and post-conflict situations: creating conflict-sensitive and peace-promoting education materials for Early Grade Reading and beyond

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Description of Session

How can education systems support peace and reconciliation in fragile settings where there is ethnic and religious diversity? One contribution towards this goal: can we build ‘Learning to live together’ (LTLT) themes into Early Grade Reading (EGR) materials and beyond? Can mother tongue reading materials being produced for a linguistically diverse society can also carry messages about the need to respect diversity and build social cohesion?

A fairly low-cost and replicable innovation could be the systematic introduction of workshop sessions on LTLT for national writers of textbooks, fiction and non-fiction education materials.

The workshop will bring together academics, graduate students and practitioners from the fields of education materials/curriculum and crisis/conflict. The objective is to design prototype materials using Bloom software; and to develop an innovation model that can help education address issues of social and emotional learning and responsible citizenship especially in fragile contexts.

Sub Unit

• General Pool

Workshop Organizers

• Nina Papadopoulos, USAID Education in Crisis & Conflict Network Lead

• Rebecca Rhodes, US Agency for International Development (USAID)

• Ash Hartwell, ECCN- USAID

• Colette Chabbott, George Washington University

• Margaret Sinclair, Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict - Education Above All (PEIC-EAA)

• Jean-Marc Bernard, Global Partnership for Education