1.7 Learning from different contexts
The video shows examples from teachers in Lebanon who are making their own resources to support learning.
The video features Manal Al Kheyfes, a teacher from a non-governmental organisation (NGO) called Jusoor, and Samar Darwish, Mohamad Al Rifaii and Nagham Abou Nabout who are teachers from another NGO called MAPs. Both organisations, Jusoor and MAPs, run informal schools for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. Those informal schools were created by NGOs to provide education for refugee children, who face barriers to enrolling in formal education.
The teachers talk about how they tackle the lack of physical resources and space and how they create positive teaching and learning environments. They talk about their own experiences of using different resources and making use of the local environment around them to improve the learning and teaching experience.
These teachers in Lebanon face similar challenges to the teachers working on the Thai Myanmar border. The challenges faced by teachers working in complex circumstances in one country or context may have many similarities (as well as differences) with teachers working in other complex environments around the world. Comparing these two very challenging contexts enables us to see where we all share similar problems and solutions. And we can also see the differences.
Exercise - Reusing teaching ideas from different contexts
Comparing these problem-solutions from two very different places with your own environment, which ideas might you adopt, and what would you use them for? Add your ideas to the Reusing Teaching Ideas Padlet.
Over to you
- We have compared the similarities between the contexts of Thailand and Myanmar and Lebanon and your own. Was that useful for you?
- What about the differences?
- How likely or unlikely is it that you would use these ideas yourself?
Please share your experiences in the forum.