ERIC Number: EJ1460876
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Dec
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0033-1538
EISSN: EISSN-1573-9090
Available Date: 2023-07-04
The Real Cost of Teaching in a Refugee Camp: Asking the Difficult Questions
Djemila Carron1; Alessandra Costa2; Tatiana Do Sul2; Paul O'Keeffe3; Maxim Ngabirano4; Assani Radjabu4
Prospects, v54 n3-4 p789-805 2024
This article asks difficult questions about higher-education courses provided by Western institutions to people living in refugee camps. It critically examines a blended-learning approach that incorporates a massive online open course (MOOC) into a scaffolded higher-education program--the University of Geneva's Connected Blended Learning model--in the Kakuma refugee camp. It assesses the effectiveness of this approach in an accredited University of Geneva human-rights law course, which ran in the Kakuma camp from 2017 to 2020. On the basis of the long experience of the course leaders and research carried out with students who participated in the course, the article explores ways of improving this model by answering difficult questions about the real cost of teaching in a refugee camp. This paper was co-written by a professor, a researcher, and students who were involved in the course, two of whom are refugees living in Kakuma refugee camp.
Descriptors: Refugees, Emergency Shelters, Teaching Methods, Educational Improvement, Higher Education, Western Civilization, Blended Learning, College Faculty, Researchers, MOOCs, Models, Course Descriptions, Universities, Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Civil Rights, Laws
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Switzerland (Geneva); Kenya
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Author Affiliations: 1Université du Québec à Montréal, Département des sciences juridiques, Montreal, Canada; 2Geneva, Switzerland; 3Maynooth University, Department of International Development, Maynooth, Ireland; 4Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kakuma, Kenya