Globally, almost half of school-age refugee children are out of school. In many contexts, students attend parallel school systems that are not integrated into the national systems or curricula of their hosting country. These parallel systems have a number of drawbacks, including informal and unprepared teaching staff, severely overcrowded classrooms, fewer instructional hours and resources, and barriers to recognized qualifications.
What We Do
The OSUN Hubs focus teacher development efforts at sites where such informal or parallel education systems are in operation. In these contexts, refugees are engaged as teachers either by local ministries or as incentive-based teachers working within the UNHCR or local NGO-established scale.
By supporting these teachers, the OSUN Hubs offer refugees skills in two areas:
- Supporting teachers in developing contextualized learner-centered approaches that contribute to psychosocial and socio-emotional well being;
- Enabling teachers to valorize the profession, training them in classroom-based research and mentorship schemes.