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Education in Times of Crisis: Shaping the Future of Internally Displaced Children- A Case Study from Pakistan

12 pagesPublished: February 12, 2020

Abstract

This study investigates the impact of education on twenty internally displaced out- of-school children over a period of nine months in a rural area of Pakistan. Two focus areas of the study were to observe (1) Change in participants’ perception towards education, and; (2) Skill development of participants. Internally displaced children were enrolled in a local school and their performance was measured against non- displaced students attending regular school. An educational strategy developed by UNICEF specifically for IDPs was used to structure the study along with a hybrid learning framework to measure children’s performance in three knowledge areas: foundational, meta and humanistic skills. The overall findings suggested that after eight months, the children had an increased interest towards learning; their parents were more supportive of their children’s education and the children learnt life skills to financially help their families while continuing school.

Keyphrases: 21st century skills, Hybrid Learning Framework, Internally Displaced Children, primary education, Right of Education

In: Claudia Urrea (editor). Proceedings of the MIT LINC 2019 Conference, vol 3, pages 162--173

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BibTeX entry
@inproceedings{LINC2019:Education_in_Times_of,
  author    = {Waqas Idrees},
  title     = {Education in Times of Crisis: Shaping the Future of Internally Displaced Children- A Case Study from Pakistan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the MIT LINC 2019 Conference},
  editor    = {Claudia Urrea},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Education Science},
  volume    = {3},
  pages     = {162--173},
  year      = {2020},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2306},
  url       = {https://easychair.org/publications/paper/14PN},
  doi       = {10.29007/qq96}}
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