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Transforming Learning in Conflict and Crisis Settings

Learn practical strategies for transformative teaching in displacement, conflict, and crisis contexts.

Transforming Learning in Conflict and Crisis Settings

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  • 4 hours per week

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  • Digital certificate when eligible

  • Introductory level

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  • Duration

    3 weeks
  • Weekly study

    4 hours
  • Languages

    English, Español, Italiano, Français, PortuguêsEnglish, Español
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Create safe, empowering learning in crisis contexts

How can you create meaningful learning experiences in conflict and displacement settings? Teachers working in crisis contexts face unique challenges supporting students experiencing trauma whilst managing their own wellbeing and limited resources.

This three-week course explores transformative education approaches for conflict and crisis settings. You’ll examine intersectional inclusion, teacher and student wellbeing, and inclusive methodologies for challenging classrooms.

Through co-designed content from crisis practitioners, you’ll develop practical strategies for your context.

Understand transformative frameworks and intersectionality

Explore why transformative education matters in conflict and displacement settings and key theoretical frameworks. You’ll learn the Conversational Framework and Victim-Perpetrator-Liberator-Peacemaker (VPLP) approach for understanding student identities.

Through practical classroom applications, you’ll discover how intersectionality affects inclusion in crisis education contexts.

Learn teacher and student wellbeing strategies

Examine teacher self-care, whole-school wellbeing support, and social-emotional learning approaches. You’ll explore strategies from real displacement contexts for addressing crisis classroom challenges.

You’ll develop collaborative approaches with school communities for building resilience in challenging circumstances.

Explore inclusive teaching in multilingual classrooms

Examine multilingual teaching methods and inclusive practices for diverse abilities and needs. You’ll learn to adapt approaches for marginalised learners drawing on practitioner experience.

You’ll reflect critically on your practice and collaborate with global teachers for shared solutions to common challenges.

Syllabus

  • Week 1

    How do we transform education in conflict and crisis settings?

    • Activity 1: Introduction

      Introduction to the course

    • Activity 2: What is intersectionality?

      Exploring the concept of intersectionality

    • Activity 3: Understanding intersectionality through a VPLP lens

      Introducing the concept of intersectionality and looking at how intersectionality together with the VPLP framework, to help us understand how some learners may be experience more disadvantage at school.

  • Week 2

    Teacher and student wellbeing in challenging circumstances

    • Activity 1: Teacher Wellbeing

      Understanding teacher wellbeing through Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory

    • Activity 2: Student Wellbeing

      Concepts and approaches for student wellbeing

    • Activity 3: Classroom challenges in conflict and crisis settings

      Understanding and managing some common classroom challenges in conflict and displacement settings

  • Week 3

    Inclusive teaching for transformation

    • Activity 1: Teaching in multilingual classrooms

      In this activity we explore how teachers can meet the needs of learners who speak different languages

    • Activity 2: Inclusive Learning for Different Needs and Abilities

      Understanding and adapting to the different needs of learners.

    • Activity 3: Reflective essay and peer review

      In this final Activity you are invited to reflect on your understanding of transforming education in your own context, in collaboration with your peers on the course.

Who is this accredited by?

The CPD Certification Service
The CPD Certification Service:

The CPD Certification Service was established in 1996 and is the leading independent CPD accreditation institution operating across industry sectors to complement the CPD policies of professional and academic bodies.

When would you like to start?

Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.

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Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Apply transformative practices which recognise students' intersecting identities
  • Collaborate effectively with other teachers and the whole school community to support teacher and student wellbeing
  • Reflect critically on your efforts to create a safe and conducive learning environment
  • Apply inclusive teaching methods for classes where students speak different languages
  • Apply inclusive teaching approaches that include and support learners with different needs and abilities
  • Reflect critically on your own teaching practices to make sure all learners can progress according to their abilities

Who is the course for?

This course is ideal for teachers in conflict and displacement areas, education practitioners supporting marginalised learners, and university students planning crisis education careers, especially those with minimal formal training in formal or non-formal settings.

Many of the ideas in this course were introduced in a prior course, Understanding Education in Conflict and Crisis Settings. We recommend that you complete the first course before starting this one, so that you are familiar with key theories such as the Conversational Framework, the Victim Perpetrator Liberator Peacebuilder (VPLP) framework, Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), and the Ecological Systems Theory. These ideas underpin all the new content in this course, and you will explore them all in greater depth here.

What software or tools do you need?

A device (e.g. laptop, tablet or mobile phone) and access to the internet

Who will you learn with?

Professor of Education, Conflict and Peace
IOE, University College London. Tejendra's research focuses on politics of education in conflict and protracted-crisis settings.

Dr. Greg Tyrosvoutis is the Co-Founder and Director of The Inclusive Education Foundation and it’s TeacherFOCUS program. He has lived and worked on the Thai-Myanmar border for the past 14 years.

Sa Phyo Arkar Myo Hlaing is an education specialist at the Inclusive Education Foundation. He has over five years of experience working in Myanmar's education sector.

A teacher educator at The Inclusive Education Foundation, he has been working to support migrant, refugee, and ethnic teachers along the Thai-Myanmar border.

I am a Research Fellow - Education in Contexts of Mass Displacement, at UCL, and a learning designer in higher education.

Professor at UCL Knowledge Lab, IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. Eileen's reesearch focuses on online learning, pedagogy, technology and future digital education.

Chair of Learning with Digital Technology, Knowledge Lab, UCL IOE.
Developing a global community of teachers around the Learning Designer

Twitter: @thinksitthrough
https://twitter.com/thinksitthrough

Professor in Education, Wellbeing and International Development at UCL Institute of Education and one of the educators on the course. I look forward to working with you !

Chan is an early career researcher and research trainer at the Inclusive Education Foundation. His research interests lie in education in emergencies and conflict.

Naing Win is a Teacher Educator with a decade of experience in educational programs for migrant learners from Myanmar in Thailand. He aims to provide accredited and quality education to teachers.

Who developed the course?

UCL (University College London)

UCL was founded in 1826. It was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, and the first to open up university education to those previously excluded from it.

The Inclusive Education Foundation (INED)

Inclusive Education Foundation (InEd) works with teachers, schools, and education leaders to ensure that all children on the Thai-Myanmar border can access high-quality and contextualised education that meets their needs.

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