Presentation by Olga Guerrero at the European Education Practitioner's Network seminar "Live & Learn: Exploring Education in Fragile Contexts" on the 2nd June in Brussels

1. Pre-Service Teacher Training for longer term
resilience and preparedness:
The case of primary school teachers during recent floods
in Malawi

2. ContentContent
Introduction
Malawi as a fragile context
The project: Resumption of T&L in flood affected schools
Skills and attitudes: roots in the pre-service training
Conclusions and reflections

3. Malawi as a fragile context
• Malawi considered a
fragile country
•Developmental challenges
•Low educational
attainment: Humana’s work
•Climate change increasing
vulnerability

4. The project – Overview
Resumption of teaching and learning in
flood affected schools:
26 teacher graduates deployed to 13
camps in 3 districts: Nsanje, Phalombe and
Chiwakwa
Existing collaboration with UNICEF as part
of the ‘Enjoy Learning – Improved
education for Children’
Psychological support, early childhood
development, remedial and afternoon
clubs, community activities
Over 7,800 children during phase 1 and
3,600 during phase 2.

5. The project – Activity pictures
Pre-school activities

6. The project – Activity pictures
Distribution of books and
assistance in camps

7. v. Farmers’ Clubs: 3 yearsSkills and attitudes: roots in the pre-service training (I)
Skill
Ability to take
responsibility
Adaptability
Project examples
Take ownership of
varied and
complex task and
in unknown
contexts
Proactive in finding
solutions:
improvised
classrooms and
materials
Humana’s
Pre-service training
Pedagogical
Method (DMM)
Broadness of
syllabus

8. v. Farmers’ Clubs: 3 yearsSkills and attitudes: roots in the pre-service training (II)
Skill
Supportiveness
Effective educators
Project examples
Psychological
support in
situation of
distress
Varied pedagogical
approaches and
activities for
children, youth
and adults
Humana’s
Pre-service training
Community
engagement and
solidary
humanisim
Balance of practical
and theoretical
training

9. Transferrable skills and attitudes that work well in fragile contexts
they were not purposefully conceived for
Strengthens the case case for teachers as dynamisers of Education
2030 Framework and Sustainable Development Goals
‘Another kind of teacher’ – Humana’s work over the past 30 years
Conclusions and reflections

10. Olga Guerrero, European Partnerships Coordinator
Olga.guerrero@humana.org
Zikomo Kwambiri!