Informações principais
Sobre o conteúdo
Globally, an unprecedented 131 million people are affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. Children, who constitute just under half of the affected population, are particularly vulnerable in these situations, which present grave risks to their physical health and psychological wellbeing.
This course examines how children’s social environments at different levels, such as the family, community and societal levels, influence children’s adversity, development and resilience. Course participants will engage in critical thought about current international child protection practice and how to strengthen it. The course will invite participants to identify opportunities for using the learning from science and practice, to enrich current child protection approaches in humanitarian settings.
This course is aimed at child protection practitioners who work internationally in humanitarian settings and is also designed for those who want to learn more about, or start working in, the sector. The course is not intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to child protection programming in humanitarian settings. Instead, it focuses on select areas that are ripe for enrichment.
- How humanitarian crises can affect children’s wellbeing and development
- What risk and resilience mean in the context of child development and child protection and what factors influence these at the individual, family, community and societal levels
- The importance of taking issues of context, agency, relationships and prevention into account when designing interventions
- How to think critically about different approaches to child protection in humanitarian crises and identify improvements for practice
Programa de estudos
- Welcome to the Course
- Getting to Know Each Other
- How to Take This Course
- (Optional) Introduction to Humanitarian Child Protection
- Child Development, Adversity, and Resilience
- Child Development
- Childhood Adversity
- Resilience in Children
- Relating the Science to Child Protection
- Unlocking the Protective Potential of Social Environments
- Supporting Children's Agency
- Working with Children in Different Cultural Contexts
- Children's Agency and Participation
- Fostering Child Agency
- Do No Harm
- Enabling Families as Protective Environments
- Families in Different Cultural Contexts
- Impact of Humanitarian Crises on Families
- Interventions to Support Families During and After Crises
- ‘Do No Harm’ Issues
- Enabling Communities as Protective Environments
- Communities As Resources and Risks for Children
- Ways of Engaging with Communities
- How Community Approaches Can Support Child Protection in Education
- Enabling Protective Social Norms and Policies
- Social Norms
- Approaches to Social Norms Change
- Children's Policies
- Approaches to Changing Policy
- Enriching and Transforming Practice
- Bringing Together the Science of Childhood Adversity and Child Protection Practice
- Identifying Barriers to Transformation
- Identifying Opportunities for Transformation
Instrutores
Hanna-Tina Fischer
Instructor, Program on Forced Migration and Health in the Department of Population and Family Health
Columbia University
Mark Canavera
Co-Director, Care and Protection of Children (CPC) Learning Network and Associate of the Program on Forced Migration and Health
Columbia University
Michael G. Wessells
Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health
Columbia University
Criador do conteúdo
A Universidade de Columbia é uma universidade privada situada em Morningside Heights, na parte noroeste do bairro de Manhattan, em Nova Iorque (Estados Unidos). As suas origens remontam ao King's College, fundado em 1754 pelo rei Jorge II da Grã-Bretanha. É uma das mais antigas instituições de ensino superior dos Estados Unidos e faz parte do grupo Ivy League, que reúne oito das mais antigas, mais famosas, mais prestigiadas e mais elitistas universidades do país.
Columbia é uma das universidades mais selectivas e prestigiadas do mundo. A taxa de admissão foi de 5,1% em 2019, comparável à de Harvard e Stanford. Classificada em primeiro lugar nos Estados Unidos em matéria de investigação, é a sexta no mundo (quarta nos Estados Unidos) no ranking CUWR das 1000 melhores universidades do mundo e a oitava no Shanghai University Rankings.
Plataforma
EdX est une plateforme d'apprentissage en ligne (dite FLOT ou MOOC). Elle héberge et met gratuitement à disposition des cours en ligne de niveau universitaire à travers le monde entier. Elle mène également des recherches sur l'apprentissage en ligne et la façon dont les utilisateurs utilisent celle-ci. Elle est à but non lucratif et la plateforme utilise un logiciel open source.
EdX a été fondée par le Massachusetts Institute of Technology et par l'université Harvard en mai 2012. En 2014, environ 50 écoles, associations et organisations internationales offrent ou projettent d'offrir des cours sur EdX. En juillet 2014, elle avait plus de 2,5 millions d'utilisateurs suivant plus de 200 cours en ligne.
Les deux universités américaines qui financent la plateforme ont investi 60 millions USD dans son développement. La plateforme France Université Numérique utilise la technologie openedX, supportée par Google.
