The Importance Of Learning From Information On Education, Migration As Well As Displacement

by Manos Antoninis, Director, Global Education Monitoring Report
Francesca Borgonovi, Senior Analyst, Directorate for Education as well as Skills


Migration as well as displacement are complex phenomena which play an of import role inwards – but tin also pose challenges to – development. These phenomena also pose peculiarly of import challenges for didactics as well as preparation systems. Firstly, they tin quickly increment the number of people that require didactics services, thence challenging both richer countries, which until instantly had been adjusting to shrinking educatee populations, as well as poorer countries, where provision is already stretched, especially inwards remote areas or slums where migrants as well as refugees ofttimes converge.

Secondly, migration as well as displacement brand classrooms to a greater extent than diverse. This agency that the attain of strategies teachers demand to deploy increases inwards social club to cater for a educatee population amongst larger differences inwards background characteristics, such equally the linguistic communication they talk at home.

Thirdly, didactics is an of import agency through which migration as well as displacement tin live on managed since schoolhouse ofttimes acts equally societies’ principal musical instrument for transmitting the social as well as cultural codes that forge a community spirit.

Information of skillful lineament is crucial to develop the correct policy responses, which is why the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 17.18 calls on countries to “increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely as well as reliable information disaggregated past times … migratory status … as well as other characteristics relevant inwards national contexts” past times 2020. Yet, collecting statistics on migrants as well as displaced people to ensure that didactics as well as preparation systems conduct maintain the capacity to encounter their needs is complicated. Population movements conduct maintain rattling dissimilar forms: international vs. internal; temporary vs. permanent; those moving inwards successive stages vs. those returning; documented vs. undocumented; voluntary vs. forced, including internally displaced as well as refugee populations; students vs. workers, and, inwards the latter case, skilled or unskilled, as well as and so on. Migrants as well as displaced people themselves may live on inwards dissimilar stages inwards their life bike or may differ inwards their circumstances, for instance adults vs. children or individuals vs. families.

To address these issues, equally business office of the Strength Through Diversity project, a two-day forum on information nearly education, migration as well as displacement is existence held inwards Paris, organised past times the OECD as well as the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report, whose adjacent edition is focusing on migration as well as displacement. Such issues get upwards to at to the lowest degree 2 levels.

At the macro level, demographic information ofttimes create non capture the didactics profiles of migrants as well as refugees. The ideal information source, which provides information on both stocks as well as flows of migration past times gender, age, as well as education, does non even as well as so exist. These questions were addressed concluding calendar month at the International Forum on Migration Statistics, which also looked at 1 other dimension of  the education-migration nexus: international educatee mobility.

At the micro level, which is the focus of this two-day event, a attain of information sources are important:
  • Multi-purpose identify surveys that comprise information on internal and, inwards high income countries, international migration via questions concerning the identify of previous residence or duration of electrical flow residence, such equally the World Bank Living Standard Measurement Survey as well as the EU Survey of Income as well as Living Conditions. Longitudinal surveys render farther insights.
  • School surveys of learning achievement which tin link detailed educatee background to educational outcomes. For example, the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) asks questions on the student’s province of birth, historic flow of arrival inwards the host country, as well as linguistic communication spoken at home. PISA also assess aspects of educatee well-being, such equally integration as well as feel of belonging inwards the schoolhouse community.
  • Surveys on values as well as attitudes that tin relate didactics to perceptions of the host population concerning migrants as well as refugees. For example, 3 waves of the International Social Survey Programme, half-dozen waves of the World Values Survey as well as 2 waves of the International Civic as well as Citizenship Education Study tackled relevant questions on this topic. These studies tin assess how didactics systems create values, attitudes, norms as well as beliefs that improve interpersonal trust as well as increment civic engagement, which are pillars of democracy.
  • Teacher surveys, such equally the OECD’s Teaching as well as Learning International Survey (TALIS), as well as national surveys that inquire questions on instructor preparation for variety as well as attitudes towards a various educatee population.
Given the challenges of didactics systems, the complex forms of population movements, the differences inwards background characteristics of migrants as well as displaced people, the dissimilar outcomes of education, as well as the dissimilar sources of information available, at that spot is a patchwork of issues, as well as this requires coordination betwixt researchers as well as practitioners working inwards multiple dissimilar fields.

The persuasion of collecting information on didactics past times migratory status that is comparable across countries may live on an unattainable finish due to the extreme variety of migrants as well as displaced populations. However, the demand for documenting as well as agreement differences inwards participation, attainment, learning as well as attitudes betwixt migrants/refugees as well as host populations for policy purposes remains urgent.

In this context, this two-day forum inwards Paris has the next aims:
  • Provide an inventory of existing information sources as well as ones that are nether development
  • Showcase skillful practices inwards information as well as touchstone that approach effectively particular aspects of the migration-education human relationship as well as improve agreement of social phenomena
  • Identify information as well as touchstone aspects of the migration-education human relationship that require urgent attending inwards social club for social phenomena to live on improve understood
  • Assess the merits of equity-oriented migration as well as didactics indicators, looking at both intra- as well as inter-generational issues
  • Make recommendations on potential questionnaire items for cardinal areas of interventions the migration-education relationship
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