Session Overview: Education for Social Cohesion

Education for Social Cohesion and Peace: Monitoring and Evaluation of Education for Life Skills, Citizenship, Peace and Human Rights


Global Consultation 2009, Istanbul

Tuesday, March 31 14:30-16:15, Concurrent Learning Session Block 1

Abstract

Do emergency education programmes help students cope with present problems and prepare them for a constructive role in rebuilding their societies? The INEE Minimum Standards for teaching and learning require that the curriculum meets the special needs of emergency-affected students, including education for life skills, respect for diversity, human rights, peace and active citizenship. These various topics are often treated separately, and hence difficult for schools to manage and for programmes to evaluate.

These issues are addressed in a new tool: ‘Learning to Live Together: Design, Monitoring and Evaluation of Education for Life Skills, Citizenship, Peace and Human Rights.’ The new Guidebook moves from a review of national educational goals relating to learning to live together to the delineation of a curriculum framework covering basic competencies (interpersonal, intrapersonal, cognitive) and their application in various thematic areas--from personal conflict resolution, to human rights and participation in civic life and peacebuilding. This framework can be adapted for programme design or for design of monitoring and evaluation schemas. The Guidebook also covers evaluation of teaching methodologies and textbook preparation in this area. The tool can be used for textbook analysis, to guide preparation of interview schedules for assessing learning and impact in schools and teacher training institutions or to structure analysis of the interview responses. Special emphasis is placed on elicitive approaches to interviews and focus group discussions.

The tool is the outcome of collaboration between UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). The Guidebook has been piloted by the Sri Lankan Education Ministry’s Social Cohesion and Peace Education Unit.

Session Objectives

  • Objective 1: Promoting M+E of education for life skills, citizenship, peace and human rights

  • Objective 2: Encouraging the application of the Guidebook by INEE members


Expected Outcomes

  • Outcome 1: Plans for additional piloting of the Guidebook
  • Outcome 2: Establish a teask team on M+E of education for life skills, citizenship, peace and human rights


Panel

Chair: Rüdiger Blumör, Director Sector Project, GTZ

Presenters:

  • Margaret Sinclair, Project Lead - Education in Conflict
  • Office of Her Highness, Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned
  • Dr. Beebi Hajarjhan Jhan Mohamed Khan, Director of Education, Social Cohesion and Peace Education Unit, Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka
  • James Kearney, Doctoral Candidate, Edinburgh University
  • Facilitator: Asa Olsson


For more information regarding this session please email the Session Coordinator Margaret Sinclair at {encode="ma.sinclair@gmail.com" title="ma.sinclair@gmail.com"}.

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