GCRF Development Award: Languaging in post-conflict zones: Educating for success in Colombia, Lebanon and South Africa

发展奖为一个国际研究网络奠定了基础，该网络将应对一个紧迫的挑战：在哥伦比亚、黎巴嫩和南非，许多学生没有机会接受母语教育，往往导致教育失败。对于这些冲突后环境中的学生来说，可获得的高质量教育对于保护生命和生计免受威胁至关重要。发展奖将解决这一关键挑战，建立一个有能力，公平和可持续的研究网络，连接学术研究人员，非政府组织，政策制定者和哥伦比亚，黎巴嫩和南非的当地利益相关者。发展奖将确定冲突后地区人民面临的复杂挑战，并将建立网络，进行应对这些挑战的创新和原创研究。发展奖将审查三个国家的教育政策中的语言，并将分析政策和实践中的历史干预。这种学习将告知在语言教育政策和实践中的创新和原创性研究在哥伦比亚，黎巴嫩和南非的要求的发展。发展奖将在确定网络+的研究议程方面发挥关键作用。在贝鲁特、开普敦和麦德林，网络大会将汇集学术研究人员和非学术合作伙伴、政府官员、地方当局、非政府组织和教师。每次网络大会的一个主要成果将是确定与教育政策中的语言有关的挑战、主题和研究问题，以塑造网络+活动。每个国家的社区会议将由项目合作伙伴协调和主办。社区会议将使包括教师、讲师、学生和社区团体在内的基层利益攸关方能够为网络+制定议程。这些会议将解决因族裔、性别、语言、贫穷、种族和社会阶层而被排斥在外的少数群体的教育、福利和经济需求。在社区会议之后，每个国家的进步和咨询委员会将推进从网络大会和社区会议中学习，综合研究问题和主题，并制定委托进行原创和创新研究的程序。进展和咨询委员会将确定已确定的研究主题，制定研究项目委托程序和协议，并制定研究评估程序。最后报告将综合这三个国家在发展奖阶段的经验教训。发展奖将与教育工作者和政策制定者合作，建立有能力、公平和可持续的伙伴关系，为网络+的启动奠定基础。在哥伦比亚、黎巴嫩和南非，Network Plus将以发展奖产生的结构和知识为基础，开展原创性、创新性研究，为教育成功的语言政策提供信息。

The development award lays the foundations for an international research network which will address an urgent challenge: in Colombia, Lebanon, and South Africa many students do not have access to education in their home language, often leading to educational failure. For students in these post-conflict contexts, accessible, high-quality education is essential to protect against threats to lives and livelihoods. The development award will address this key challenge, establishing a capable, equitable, and sustainable research network which connects academic researchers, non-government organisations, policy-makers, and local stakeholders in Colombia, Lebanon, and South Africa. The development award will identify complex challenges faced by people in post-conflict zones, and will put in place networks to conduct innovative and original research which addresses those challenges. The development award will examine language in education policy in each of the three national contexts, and will analyse historical interventions in policy and practice. This learning will inform the development of calls for innovative and original research in language education policy and practice in Colombia, Lebanon, and South Africa. The development award will play a key role in setting the research agenda for the Network Plus. In Beirut, Cape Town, and Medellin Network Assemblies will bring together academic researchers and non-academic partners, government officials, local authorities, non-government organisations, and teachers. A key outcome of each Network Assembly will be identification of challenges, themes, and research questions related to language in education policy, to shape Network Plus activity. Community Meetings in each country context will be co-ordinated and hosted by project partners. The Community Meetings will enable grassroots stakeholders including teachers, lecturers, students, and community groups to set the agenda for the Network Plus. These meetings will address the educational, welfare, and economic needs of minoritized groups who are excluded by ethnicity, gender, language, poverty, race and social class. Following the Community Meetings, a Progress and Advisory Board in each country will take forward the learning from the Network Assembly and the Community Meeting, to synthesise research questions and themes, and to develop processes for commissioning original and innovative research. The Progress and Advisory Board will firm up identified research themes, establish research project commissioning procedures and protocols, and put in place processes for the evaluation of research. A final report will synthesise learning from the development award phase across the three countries. Working with educators and policy-makers, the development award will put in place capable, equitable, and sustainable partnerships which will underpin the inception of the Network Plus. In Colombia, Lebanon, and South Africa the Network Plus will build on the structures and knowledge generated through the development award, to conduct original, innovative research which will inform language policy for educational success.