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Connecting Arab Intellectuals with (possible) Lost Generation?
Memlakat.com is an educational platform for Syrian refugee children, allowing them to learn in their native language and syllabus amid the challenges posed by their displacement in Turkey. The document highlights the significant number of out-of-school children and the logistical difficulties in providing education due to cultural and language barriers. Future plans suggest a dual focus on both integration into the host society and preparation for potential return, utilizing volunteer educators and digital resources to facilitate learning.
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- 1. memlakat.com A platform forSyrian refugee children to get education in their own language and their own syllabus. ! * Memlakat means country/hometown in arabic. ! !
- 2. 2.688.686 Syrian refugeesin Turkey
- 3. TemporaryShelteringCenterDispersedTotal 0 750000 15000002250000 3000000 2.688.686 Syrian refugees in Turkey
- 4. TemporaryShelteringCenterDispersedTotal 0 750000 15000002250000 3000000 2.414.608 dispersed Syrian refugees in Turkey
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- 6. 40-50% of refugeesin Turkey should go to the school. Ministry of national education reported that there are 310.000 children are registered in Turkish primary, secondary schools however; 620.000 children are out of education system. 450.000 children are planned to be integrated to education system till 2017. ! ! The number of proficient arabic educators in Turkey(2015) = 3.220 (2.831 Arab, 389 Turkish) !
- 7. Observed problems • Turkisheducation system is designed for Turkish and using latin alphabet. There are limited resource on arab backgrounded teachers and educational materials. ! • The Syrian refugee children outside the camps are dispersed in different cities. It is hard to create education related logistic channels with current conservational approaches. ! • Refugee children are helping family and working in day time. ! • Lack of role-models and not having a good psychological state
- 8. Latin vs ArabicAlphabet
- 9. Future context: Naturalization ofrefugees: These refugee children are going to stay in host countries and never return back original country;therefore, they don’t need education in their mother language and need naturalization process. They need to learn the host language, culture and so on. ! Familiarization activités: These refugee children are going to return their country when the dilemma is solved. They need to rebuild their country and for that reason essential skills, culture are important to gain during war period.
- 10. Using volunteered intellectualarab population for remote education activities via Internet technologies. Syrian diaspora United Arab Emirates 242.000 ! Germany 200.000 ! United States 154.560 ! Kuwait 120.000 ! Canada 40.849 ! Sweden 40.000 ! Australia 13.517 ! Arab diaspora France 4.000.000 ! Netherlands 230.000 ! Germany 400.000 ! UK 240.545 ! USA 1,697,570!
- 11. Volunteer educator Classrooms hosts FamiliarSyllabus Connecting these three elements to create almost the same experience for Syrian children. host classrooms 4-10 students Intellectual volunteers (arabic) America Europe students classroom president(organizer) Syllabus Education Materials Psychological support Role Models Time tables Video conferencing Monitoring hosts Reporting abuses
- 12. Familiar Syllabus Our platformonly accepts positive sciences and literature focus approach because of not evoking any political and religion oriented issues and conflicts. ! • The syllabus and related content digitalization activities • Heuristic study for quality with higher education institutions • Suitable for learning and tutoring activities
- 13. Identifying educator Role: Educatorare going to use defined syllabus and materials in the platform. Main role of the these people are; ! • to support refugee children on education subjects • to facilitate education • to check process • instant answering if there are any questions. ! !
- 14. Identifying educator For bettermatching reasons; information related to; ! 1 - Understanding the time zone 2 - Identifying the background, education and interests 3 - Patterning the days and time-slots 4 - Role-modeling and supportive acts ! !
- 15. Hosting a classroom Dispersedrefugees are living in the cities together with Turkish citizens. There are Turkish citizens who are willing to provide internet connection and share an internet connected device periodically. ! Upon request, beneficial aid can be delivered to these people. ! ! ! ! ! !
- 16. Child abuse After eachsession, the classroom owner can check recorded session and report any unacceptable behavior. Kids are also going to be questioned if there is any abuse situation which will be shared with government authorities. ! ! ! ! !
- 17. Thank you foryour time. Let us know about your opinion. You can send an e-mail to curious@22pm.net