GWU EDU 228.10: EDUCATION IN EMERGENCIES (CRN: )M-W June 1-24 2010, 6:10-9:45pm, 8 sessions; Classroom: TBDInstructor: Michael J Gibbons, American University and Leadership Learningmjgibbonsstarpower.net; 202-441-3054COURSE OVERVIEWIntroduction:Northwest Pakistan, Port-au-Prince Haiti, Sierra Leone - three countries, three education systems, three emergencies, three responses, three cases.What happens to education when an emergency occurs?What policies exist to guide official, humanitarian and community education preparedness, response and recovery actions?What practices and resources have been developed to support education in emergencies?Who and what are the key players, structures and institutions re education in emergencies and what roles do and should they play?This course will review the policies, practices, players and issues pertaining to education in emergencies work. The focus of sessions will be tailored to participant interests and questions. We will engage in an emergency response scenario to explore the issues and dynamics of an emergency education situation. We will review case studies to analyze approaches, strategies and methods used. We will listen to the voices of students and teachers who have lived through emergency situations to understand the lived experience and the learning challenges faced. We will examine the international education field and explore the aids and constraints to education work in emergency situations that characterize the field. We will identify opportunities, breakthroughs, unexpected possibilities which emergency education work reveals and challenges in mainstreaming innovations as normalcy returns.Topics to be covered:Humanitarian law/Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)/Education For AllEmergency types, phases, response mechanismsEffects of emergencies on schools, children, teachers, education systemsEducations role in fragility, resilience, peacebuilding, developmentInter-agency network on education in emergencies (INEE)Education in Emergencies Minimum StandardsEducation strategies and resources for different phases of emergency and transitionsUN Education Cluster Prevention, preparedness, capacity-buildingChildren and Youth rights and protection issues and approachesRecovery/reconstruction issues and approaches Country case studies of emergency response and recoveryReference texts/resources:INEE Minimum Standards (available first class)INEE website www.ineesite.org this is our home base and the weblink for below.Beyond the Fire teen experiences of war www.itvs.org/beyondthefire Children and armed conflict www.un.org/children/conflictINEE Minimum Standards Toolkits (weblink)IIEP Guidebook for planning education in emergencies and reconstruction (weblink)Machel “Impact of armed conflict on children” 1996 www.unicef.org/graca OMalley, B. Education Under Attack. UNESCO study. 2007 (UNESCO website)ReliefWeb www.reliefweb.int Save the Children www.savethechildren.org , rewrite the future campaign update, “last in line last in school report”Sec Council working group on children and armed conflict annual report www.un.org/children/conflict UNICEF Education in Emergencies A Resource Toolkit (PDF)UNICEF young voices from conflict zoneswww.un.org/children/conflict/documents/pdf/will_you_listen UNESCO EFA website www.unesco.org/en/efareport UNHCR website www.unhcr.org - basic facts; protecting refugees; IDPs Q&A Womens Commission Global Survey on Education in Emergencies (weblink) World Bank Reshaping the Future education and post-conflict reconstruction (weblink)Learning assignments:1. Weekly reflections (2); due on blackboard Friday June 4 and 11; in response to posted question; read all postings by next Monday class.2. Issue paper; Due 6/24; 5 pages. Topic: issue or case situation of your choice.What is the issue or case situation you have chosen, why is it important to you?Who are the learners affected by this issue or situation, how does it impact them?What challenges does this issue/case pose to policymakers, program agencies?Based on your reading and analysis, what are the best responses to this issue/case?3. Group EiE country case analysis PPT presentation; Due 6/22; teams work together; country cases to be selected; 15 slides, 30 min presentation; work time will be made available during class; focus on good practices in context.Appreciative analysis of the elements of promising approaches understanding better what works in emerging casesWhich setting? What was the education situation pre-crisis? What is the nature of the crisis and how has it affected the education system?Who are the learners and how has the crisis affected them?What responses have you identified that seem to be working? By whom?What approaches have been used? What outcomes have resulted?What in your view are the k