Carron, Djemila, Costa, Alessandra ORCID: 0000-0002-3290-8430, Do Sul, Tatiana, O'Keeffe, Paul ORCID: 0000-0003-0149-2185 and Radjabu, Assani (2023) The real cost of teaching in a refugee camp: asking the difficult questions. Prospects . ISSN 0033-1538
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Higher education; Refugees; Human rights; Blended learning; Online learning; Scaffolded learning |
Subjects: | Social Sciences > Education |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government |
Publisher: | UNESCO |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-023-09645-w |
Copyright Information: | © 2023 The Authors |
Funders: | Open Access funding provided by the IReL Consortium. |
ID Code: | 29030 |
Deposited On: | 15 Sep 2023 13:18 by Vidatum Academic . Last Modified 15 Sep 2023 13:18 |
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