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UEF • Learning for Well-Being
Learning for Well being
Elham Palestine
A Partnership Initiative for Systemic Change
By
Marwan Awartani
Universal Education Foundation
Palestine
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How can we make our school learning environment more conducive to the well-being of our students ?
Well-being is the realization of one’s physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual potential in relation to self, others and the environment
Nature of the Issue
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• Develop a conceptual framework and a credible survey instrument that captures students attitudes and perceptions towards various aspects of their school environment.
• An inclusive participatory design and development process involving students, policy makers, scholars, practitioners, parents, and civil society organizations
• Around 100 focus groups and consultations, in-depth interviews,
• Expert meetings involving partners from government, academia, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNRWA, CISCO, EDC,
Student Centered Well-being Based Metrics of the School Environment
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The Construct
Dimensions includes but is not limited to:
• Teaching and learning approaches and practices
• School climate
• Students public health and psychosocial well- being
• The quality of the relationships involved
• The scope of students engagement
• The school physical environment
• ...
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The baseline survey
• Establish a baseline svy.pdf
• A representative national sample of 10thgrade students
• A Self administered questionnaire
• Sample design allows for analysis against various
background variables:
• Focus groups with students to help understand some findings
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Dissemination and ripplesfrom diagnostics to action
Data analysis and data dissemination to policy makers, civil society organizations and the educational community.
Stimulate and orchestrate a national dialogue on “how are our schools doing on children’s well being?”
Mainstream the well being based prism to monitor the return on investment
Work jointly with policy makers on identifying priority areas for intervention:
Build consensus on these priorities and design a major national program: Elham Palestine
Build the Elham inclusive partnership carrier : education, health, sports, social welfare, UNRWA,..gov.ppt MOU.pdf
Elham Palestine
Elham stimulates, identifies, recognizes, documents, showcases, disseminates and helps replicate
Innovative initiatives that made a significant difference in students learning environment
Mind Map
Partnering with the System
System’s concurrence, systemic legitimacy: bottom up and top down
Systemic multitier organic engagement org.doc
A new language is being spoken: well-being, quality of the learning
environment, engagement, partnership, local community engagement
and ownership,..
An open call for initiative and enterpeunorship; investing in hope
Leveraging in kind resources: over 500 cadre
Gradual steady integration of the WB framework in policies and
strategies and rolling out best practices: the i-commission
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Sustainability Considerations
Elham localization: Elham local structures LC.doc
Local ownership and leadership: venture philanthropy
A wide reach-out campaign par.ppt
Partnering with media and engaging its various forms throughout the
process: the well being lingo. Journalists for well being
Elham Community and Capacity building program
Engaging children and youth learning for well being youth alliance
YT.ppt
Launch the Learning for well being forum
Sustained awareness raising Elham Harvest , national ceremony
and documentary films har.ppt cer.ppt
Three Examples
Baiteen school initiative; sound choices
Fufur Sour school initiative: eliminating an environmnetal hazard
The Kufur Niameh school initiative: school organic farming