MESHGuides

An overview of research and advice about developing mathematical learning 0-5 years is provided in this online guidance from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. http://www.wordworks.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/More-than-Counting_web.pdf

Their definition of mathematics may be helpful. The booklet is freely available, very readable and packed with ideas for activities.

Advice from therapists working with refugee children and parents waiting on the French/British border in Calais and Dunkerque is to focus on building resilience by working to try and elicit survival strategies and ways children have coped and to build on these. A lot of work on trauma has come from work with the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, which is unhelpful for refugees (and others in ongoing stressful contexts) as there is no 'post-trauma', they are living with ongoing trauma.

‘This course has been a veritable 'Teacher's Centre' for me. Something I've missed since moving to an international context. I'm very impressed with the range of benefits and the way that the collaboration has worked. Meanwhile I've found new enthusiasms as a result of joining.

This study has been selected by academics in the African Deans of Education network and it provides a model for translating research from a PhD into usable knowledge for teachers.

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The study has high transferability in high-risk, low-resource educational contexts.  The concept that different communities have different strategies for dealing with challenges in their environment is an important concept for teachers to understand. The case in this guide is from a community in South Africa. We welcome summaries of other similar work so that we can look for similarities and differences in communities. Adding cases from different settings would strengthen the Transferability rating.