Education in Divided Societies Network: the role of school collaboration in societies emerging from conflict

刚摆脱冲突或受冲突影响的社会往往难以确保和平：在处理冲突遗留问题和寻找建立更美好和更安全未来的一致办法方面可能面临挑战。在许多这样的社会里，学校制度也是分裂的，或者已经分裂，这似乎使挑战更加困难。“分裂社会中的教育网络”（EDS-N+）项目旨在利用教育合作的变革潜力来帮助应对这些挑战，重点是让学校内部的教师、不同社区的学校之间的教师以及在不同辖区工作的教师进行合作。在GCRF发展奖的支持下，我们将开始在北爱尔兰、黎巴嫩、约旦、北马其顿、波黑和科索沃共同构建一个主要教育利益攸关方的战略网络，所有这些利益攸关方都致力于通过教育建设和平。该网络最终将共同创建和共同支持旨在解决这些关键挑战的项目和活动。它将围绕历史和公民教学，将学习与不同的知识体系联系起来，为教学变革和社会赋权提供信息。EDS-N+网络将支持地方、国家和国际学校网络之间的合作机会，以增强公共教育的社会影响，并改善年轻人，特别是社会经济地位较低群体的年轻人获得优质教育的机会。教育者分层网络之间的协作将使课程和教学创新能够以一种联合的方式进行探索，为分享专业知识和经验、实现新学习、追求教育和社会目标提供对话空间。对历史和公民教育的关注很重要，因为这些是课程的核心领域，涉及身份和社会实践，而对横向能力的关注则强调了更广泛的教育环境和为学生提供的体验机会。GCRF发展奖提供的机会将用于在两个阶段的工作中解决一些优先事项。总之，第一阶段将包括更广泛的项目小组会议，以便根据大纲阶段的反馈意见，完善和最终确定整个阶段的建议。我们还将继续在更广泛的项目组中进行团队建设，并开始扩大项目组的进程。在第二阶段，将在中东和东南欧再举行两次会议，邀请当地官方发展援助国家利益攸关方参加。我们将开始建立和扩大更广泛的教育工作者和决策者网络，并开始与利益攸关方就这两个地区内部和整个地区的关键需求和优先事项进行讨论。在这一阶段，我们还将在GCRF Network Plus提交最终决定后开始制定实施阶段的计划。

Societies emerging from conflict, or conflict-affected, often find it difficult to secure peace: there may be challenges in dealing with the legacy of conflict and in finding a cohesive approach to building a better and safer future. In many of these societies school systems are also divided, or have become so, which appears to render the challenges even more difficult. The Education in Divided Societies Network (EDS-N+) project aims to use the transformative potential of collaboration in education to help address these challenges, with the foci of collaboration involving teachers within schools, teachers between schools from different communities, and teachers working across different jurisdictions.With the support of the GCRF Development Award, we will begin co-constructing a strategic network of key educational stakeholders in Northern Ireland (NI), Lebanon, Jordan, North Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH), and Kosovo, all of whom work on peace building through education. The network will eventually co-create and co-support projects and activities that seek to address these key challenges. It will look to connect learning and different systems of knowledge around the teaching of history and civics to inform pedagogical change and social empowerment. The EDS-N+ network will support opportunities for collaboration between local, national and international school networks to enhance the social impact of public education, and improve access to quality education for young people, especially those from lower socio-economic groups. Collaboration across the layered networks of educators will enable curriculum and pedagogical innovation to be explored in a joined-up way, providing spaces for dialogue where expertise and experience can be shared, new learning achieved, and educational and social goals pursued. The focus on the teaching of history and civics is important as these are areas of the curriculum that go to the heart of identity and social practice, while the focus on transversal competences highlights the wider educational environment and the experiential opportunities provided to students.The opportunity provided by the GCRF Development Award will be used to address a number of priorities over two stages of work. In summary, the first stage will involve the wider project group meeting in order to enhance and finalise the full stage proposal in the light of feedback from the outline stage. We will also continue the process of team-building amongst the wider project group and begin the process of expanding the group. In the second stage, two further meetings will be held in the Middle East and South East Europe to which local ODA country stakeholders will be invited. We will start to build and scale wider networks of educators and policy makers, and begin discussions with stakeholders on the key needs and priorities within and across the two regions. During this phase we will also start developing plans for the implementation phase after the final decisions on GCRF Network Plus submissions are made.