Reimagining a Broader Framework for Education in Emergencies within Comparative and International Education
Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80382-618-9, eISBN: 978-1-80382-617-2
Publication date: 19 July 2022
Abstract
Education in Emergencies (EiE) as a subfield of Comparative and International Education (CIE) has played a vital role in advocating for the world’s most vulnerable people with a focus on short-term responses to specific events like conflict and natural disasters that often occur in the Global South. However, recent events, like the protests exposing structural racial and gender inequality, the COVID-19 pandemic, and multiple global “slow” conflicts, have revealed a different nature of modern emergencies where issues, which are often considered important but not urgent, can quickly become emergencies under the right circumstances or have in fact always been so. Accordingly, in this chapter, we reimagine a broader framework for EiE which includes long-term, systemic, and universal challenges that affect both the Global North and South. The chapter includes a historical review of EiE as a subfield within CIE along with evidence of new forms of modern emergencies in the United States, Bolivia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Myanmar, and Syria that build toward a broader framework of EiE intended for both CIE scholars and practitioners.
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Citation
Swindell, A., Elliott, K. and McCommons, B. (2022), "Reimagining a Broader Framework for Education in Emergencies within Comparative and International Education", Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021 (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 42B), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-36792022000042B002
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