Blog - The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET)

We must do better by young refugees

by Ritesh Shah, | Aug 8, 2022 | Conflict, Crisis and Emergency, featured

More than 40 percent of the world’s refugees are children and young people under 18 and without education their future is bleak. Ritesh Shah explains why we need to move past 'West is best' in serving them.

Transitioning to an unfamiliar medium of instruction: pedagogical strategies used by Rwandan primary school teachers to enable learning

by Eugene Ndabaga | Aug 1, 2022 | featured, Learning

The project started in November 2019 and our aim was to investigate the classroom pedagogical strategies used by primary school teachers to support the transition from Kinyarwanda to English as language of instruction, which used to take place at the end of primary 3.

Girls’ education might just save the planet!

by Safeena Husain | Jul 25, 2022 | featured, Girls' Education

As parts of India are gripped in an extreme heatwave, I am reminded of the alarming statistic by Care International: ‘Women are 14 times more likely to die in climate related disasters than men[1]’ – a staggering fact that illustrates how the poorest women and girls, who contribute the least…

Involving the community in raising children’s foundational learning outcomes: Evidence from India

by Suman Bhattacharjea, Deepak Kumar and Ricardo Sabates | Jul 18, 2022 | Early Childhood, featured, Literacy and Numeracy

Achieving basic literacy and numeracy skills is fundamental for successful learning through the schooling cycle. Supporting children to achieve these foundational skills requires not just teachers, but multiple stakeholders working together to enable meaningful understandings and applications of these skills. But, how can multiple stakeholders work together to ensure that…

Socioemotional Learning (SEL) and EdTech – Opportunities for Turbulent Times

by Akanksha Bapna | Jul 11, 2022 | Learning

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a seismic shift in education - not only in its delivery but also its goals. Here we identify five opportunities emerging from the pandemic that can help bring socioemotional learning to the front and centre of learning goals.

Finding synergies between socio-emotional learning and mental health and psychosocial wellbeing

by Fiona Samuels | Jul 4, 2022 | Learning

In this blog I briefly explore how one might bring together linkages between those working on socio-emotional learning (SEL) and others like myself working on mental health and psychosocial wellbeing (MHPSW), and similarly how people working in these two domains might collaborate.

Bridging the digital divide through EdTech capacity-building in communities in India

by Kriti Mahtab and Pupul Lama | Jun 28, 2022 | Learning

With the advent of the digital revolution, the Indian education sector has witnessed a slow shift from the traditional blackboard-classroom setting to a more digitised learning environment. The reforms proposed under the National Education Policy 2020 emphasised the cultivation of 21st-century skills – like creativity, critical thinking, and digital literacy.

Montessori Model to Build Back Better in Delhi Government School

by Shreyan Acharya and Himanshu Gupta | Jun 27, 2022 | Early Childhood, Learning

The 8th of March 2022 marked a new dawn in the history of government schools in Delhi, especially at the primary level, as the Montessori Lab was launched in a government-run school for the first time.