Contextualised education for Somali pastoralist children

In two e-articles in the UKFIET Education and Development Forum, Abdirazak Haybe, an education specialist based in Somali Region of Ethiopia, highlights the importance of pastoralist education for inclusive development of mobile and marginalised communities living in remote areas. He outlines the barriers faced by children in Somali pastoralist communities and calls for contextualised and relevant learning opportunities for these children that would help pastoralist communities improve their understanding of environmental conservation and promote sustainable grazing practices.

• Lives worth living: educating Ethiopia’s Somali pastoralists (16 Dec 2020) focuses on how Covid-19 exacerbated the challenges that Somali pastoralist children were already facing with respect to accessing formal education;
• Nurturing their futures: empowering pastoralist children through education (15 Jan 2024) focuses on ways to improve the formal education of pastoralist children, e.g. through mobile and community-based schools.

 

Posted on 2 February 2024 in Pastoralism & Services