Journal on Education in Emergencies -Volume 3

  Journal on Education in Emergencies – Volume 3 Now Available By Heddy Lehman via ECCN July 19- The third issue of the Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE) is now available. With this new issue of JEiE — which consists of three research articles, one field note, and four book reviews — we return to the positive face of

Poor quality learning assessments ….GEM

By Rachel Outhred, Education Consultant, Oxford Policy Management Much of the recent international discussion regarding the measurement of learning outcomes globally has been driven by the need to monitor Sustainable Development Goal 4 – ‘to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all’. Such learning assessments, as will be shown in the next GEM Report […]

new INEE paper

INEE have produced a new paper (revised) We are pleased to share with you the revised English version of the INEE Background Paper on Psychosocial Support and Social and Emotional Learning, originally published in December 2016. Following its launch, INEE made several editorial revisions to the paper based on feedback from INEE members. In addition to this

The brain and learning

Sometimes it is difficult to convince teachers (and parents) that beating and humiliating children in the name of education just will not work. What is helpful is the scientific argument that toxic stress on children produces cortisol which is likely to inhibit synaptic connections in the brain and thus affect learning.Now is the time to