On Education for All

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The Impact of Israeli Occupation

• On Education for All
• in Palestine
• Rose Shomali

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1994 Challenges facing the MOE

• Quality of Education
• curriculum,
• the learning environment,
• training of teachers,
• introducing modern techniques
• Access to Education

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Impact on Children interviewed in 2003

• more than 60 of Palestinian children were
  suffering from emotional problems and behavior
  changes.
• problems among Palestinian children have
  multiplied since the beginning of the Intifada in
  2000.
• 93 of the children reported not feeling safe,
  fearing that they would be attacked.
• 93 reported that they fear for their families
  and friends.
• 49 had personally experienced violence or
  witnessed violence against an immediate family
  member.

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Impact on Children

• 21had to move out of their homes temporarily or
  permanently due to the conflict.  
• 52 of the children felt that their parents were
  no longer able to fully meet their needs for care
  and protection.

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increase in Israel's aggression in 2006

1. Israel destroyed infrastructure, bridges and
   roads, severing Palestinian areas from each other
2. 400 checkpoints to severely restrict freedom of
   movement and disrupt daily life.
3. Repetitive military closures prevented students
   and teachers from getting to school and workerss
   from getting to their jobs.
4. exchange between the West Bank and Gaza was
   terminated.
5. Israel constructed the separation wall on
   Palestinian lands on the pretext of security

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The impact of the wall

• cut Palestinian families off from their land
• confiscated agricultural land, and water s
• annexed all of the largest settlements
• villages were separated from healthcare and
  education as well as other basic services.
• Israel revoked the Jerusalem residency of more
  than 20,000 Jerusalemites, creating pressure on
  them to leave their homeland.
• foreign spouses of Palestinians have been denied
  residence by Israel, tearing many Palestinian
  families apart forcing them to leave Palestine

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Early Childhood care and Development
 

 

1 Ibid, pp72-73
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ECCD Gross and net enrolment rates

• Decrease in gross enrolment rate from 37.7 in
  99/00 to 29.4in 04\05
• Decrease in the net enrolment rate from 36.2 in
  1999/02 to 22.9 in 2004/05

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Gross enrolment rate of first grade pupils in
Development programmers
   

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1 Ibid, p74
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Net enrolment rate of first grade pupils in
Development programmers
 
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Health Indicator
     
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Health Indicators in Early Childhood

• Newborn deaths account for three quarters of all
  infant deaths
• In Gaza, the rate of mortality death for infants
  under one year and under five years of age
  increased by about 30.
• One in three of the newborn infants in Gaza
  admitted to newborn units in major hospitals died
  
• About 8 of newborns have a low birth weight
  (under 2500grams) .

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Health Indicators

• The rate of chronic malnutrition has increased
  reaching 10.
• In Gaza, children under 5 are the most affected.
• 350,000 children have experienced stunted
  development due to malnutrition.
• children between 12 and 23 months of age affected
  most severely
• More than 15 percent of them are malnourished

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BASIC EDUCATION INDICATORS

• increased from 572,529 in 1994/95 to 953,621 in
  2005/06 (about 30 of the population) increase
  rate of 66.6.
• Females 49.7 and males 50.3.
• Female enrolment in basic education in 2005/06
  was 97.9 female students per 100 male students.
  In Gaza, this rate is lower than in the West Bank
  (96.9 in Gaza and 98.6 in the West Bank).

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Gross Enrolment in first grade
 
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Net Enrolment Rate in grade 1
 
 

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Quality Education Indicator

• in the general test, those who were qualified
  were only 40.39 for males and 59.61 for
  females.
•  Private schools 72.55
• UNRWA schools 57.37
• public schools rated 50.01

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Quality and Access to Education

• Good in ensuring access to education
• Need more work to ensure quality of education
• Factors to be considered
• LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
• CHANGE TOWARDS CHILD CNETERED APPROACH
• MORE FOCUS ON the process rather than the content

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THE END

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