25 November, 12:00 GMT
INEE, UCL, and the ERICC consortium invite you to a webinar on Teacher Management in Conflict and Protracted Crisis.
This webinar is part of a series hosted by UCL Institute of Education, which aims to promote dialogue and synergy between emerging findings from the Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC) programme and the work of scholars and practitioners in the field.
This second webinar brings together Dr. Danielle Falk (International Rescue Committee), Dr. Mary Mendenhall (Teachers College, Columbia University), and Mading Peter Angong (Education Action in Crisis) to share their ongoing research with teachers working amidst conflict, crisis, and forced displacement. They will be joined by Discussant Dr. Sean Higgins (UCL Institute of Education).
The webinar focuses on key challenges and opportunities for teacher management in conflict and protracted crisis settings, recognising that teachers are at the centre of children and young people’s educational experiences, especially in contexts affected by conflict and crisis where they may be the only resource amidst educational scarcity (Mendenhall et al., 2019). Yet, despite their central role, teachers face persistent challenges in their work, including irrelevant and inadequate professional development, difficult working conditions, insufficient compensation and benefits, limited to no career progression opportunities, and tenuous job security undermine the teaching profession, compromising teaching quality and leading many to leave the profession or avoid joining it in the first place (Falk, 2023; Martin, 2018; Wolf et al., 2015; UNESCO et al., 2024).