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Research Digest - August 2023
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Publications
Playful learning across the years (PLAY) measurement toolkit: Full report
The LEGO Foundation
Evidence on playful learning is lacking, particularly in low and middle-income countries. This is, in part, due to the lack of instruments to assess playful learning. This report describes the development of a toolkit for measuring support for playful learning in home, centre, and school settings across age groups from 0 to 12 years.
GEM report
The report also explores three system-wide conditions (access to technology, governance regulation, and teacher preparation) that need to be met for any technology in education to reach its full potential.
Climate change and education in Turkana, Kenya
Donvan Amenya and Rachael Fitzpatrick
This report represents a study that explored the impact of climate change on education in Turkana County, Kenya, as an example of one of the country’s ASAL areas. It explores the impact of climate on schools and learning, and considers how to engage learners and schools in building resilience to climate change in the future.
Antony Mbithi, Pauline Essah, and Samuel Agyapong
This report presents examples of approaches to addressing faculty challenges that could be used by other education leaders and/or policymakers. These examples are framed as observations and potential solutions, since data on the effectiveness of these approaches and their costs were, in general, unavailable.
World Youth Skills Day 2023 Empowering youth for a sustainable future
UNESCO
This report is a compilation of inputs from various speakers and participants in the UNESCO-UNEVOC and WorldSkills hybrid event on ‘Empowering youth for a sustainable future’, which took place on 14 July 2023 to mark World Youth Skills Day.
Comments
AI-powered teacher training: Promise or pitfall?
Tracy Wilichowski and Cristóbal Cobo
How do digital competence frameworks address the digital divide?
Graeme Atherton, Glenda Crosling, Angela Lee Siew Hoong, and Sarah Elson-Rogers
Events
BERA’s Annual Conference
12-14 September 2023 at Aston University/ Conference Aston.
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