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Sesame and the Refugee Crisis. !!!On the Education Topic!!!



This is a very interesting article on how barriers to education are being overcome in Syrian refugee camps.
It is also like a pilot project whose impact can help reduce the gap in education between refugee children and children elsewhere. If this works great, it will be applied in the rest of the camp.
The article also shows how education hasn’t been prioritized enough in refugee relief aid. I hope it gets you thinking about: -
1.) Ways of ensuring education is prioritized along with health and resettlement
2.) Ways of administering education in places like refugee camp

I encourage you to read this article and many more as you think of possible resolutions ahead of time. It is a fun read!!! Feel free to comment and ask questions if you have any.

Link is here .

Also here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/world/middleeast/macarthur-sesame-street-refugees.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FInternational%20Education

Comments

  1. UnknownFebruary 22, 2018 at 5:56 PM

    Chile absolutely agrees specifically with this blog post because the Sesame Street impact has been recorded previously in Bangladesh. In 2006, USAID support helped create the hugely successful television program, Sisimpur, the Bangladesh version of Sesame Street, which is the most widely viewed children’s television show in the country. Currently, an estimated 12 million young children tune into Sisimpur every week and each episode aims to improve reasoning skills, such as literacy and numeracy. However, Chile especially agrees with this program because of its focus on portraying positive social and cultural knowledge. Preliminary findings show that children who watch the program are doing better than their peers in literacy and math skills already.
    To Chile, it is amazing that such a simple show can bring great success. We really hope that more countries are willing to implement such a program and we are excited to see how well we can do so.

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