23 min
S3E5 - Fifi the Punishing Cat and Other Civic Lessons JEiE Behind the Pages
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- Education
This is an episode of Behind the Pages - the podcast of the Journal on Education in Emergencies. Join us for these exciting and timely conversations with JEiE authors about their work on education in regions affected by crisis and conflict. Fifi the Punishing Cat and Other Civic Lessons from a Lebanese Public Kindergarten School by Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Garene Kaloustian, Sally Wesley Bonet, and Samira Chatila Education can provide stability and continuity for refugees, but it can also contribute to tension between host-country students and newcomers, especially if teachers’ capacity is limited and pressure to deliver a scripted curriculum is high. Join JEiE’s Nathan Thompson and authors Thea Renda Abu El-Haj and Garene Kaloustian as they reflect on three years observing Lebanese, Syrian refugee, and Palestinian refugee Kindergarteners at a single school and share insights on these students’ feelings of belonging and exclusion and their struggle to take agency and become citizens of their classrooms.
This is an episode of Behind the Pages - the podcast of the Journal on Education in Emergencies. Join us for these exciting and timely conversations with JEiE authors about their work on education in regions affected by crisis and conflict. Fifi the Punishing Cat and Other Civic Lessons from a Lebanese Public Kindergarten School by Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Garene Kaloustian, Sally Wesley Bonet, and Samira Chatila Education can provide stability and continuity for refugees, but it can also contribute to tension between host-country students and newcomers, especially if teachers’ capacity is limited and pressure to deliver a scripted curriculum is high. Join JEiE’s Nathan Thompson and authors Thea Renda Abu El-Haj and Garene Kaloustian as they reflect on three years observing Lebanese, Syrian refugee, and Palestinian refugee Kindergarteners at a single school and share insights on these students’ feelings of belonging and exclusion and their struggle to take agency and become citizens of their classrooms.
23 min