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Teaching in Partnership
We provide qualified teachers offering professional focused support, working in the classroom alongside Burmese teachers and their pupils.
There are a number of organisations which provide funding for education but BEP sees its role as being specifically linked to professional educational support. This is an element which is highly valued on the Thai border and is frequently in short supply.
Over the last ten years we have built up the organisation gradually and have been involved in the provision of
- short courses for teachers and students in the camps
- individual specialist placements
- extended specialist programmes:
- 1. The Mobile Teaching Programme
- 2. Karen Curriculum Development Programme in the refugee camps
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A Professional Network 'Teachers talking to Teachers'
Education is by its very nature a long term developmental process and as an organisation we are involved with Burma and its people for the long term. It is difficult to say exactly how the future of Burma will develop but it is clear that education will play a key role. Currently there is much debate on the form that this will take. One way we see our role as developing is providing Burmese educational groups with alternatives which they can accept, reject or adapt. In order to do this we would like to build in the UK a network of professional educationalists who can at some point contribute to this process.
Who do we work with?
BEP works with a range of organisations and places its volunteers in conjunction with these organisations.
Burmese organisations:
The Karen Education Department
The Burmese Migrant Workers Education Committee
The Karen Women's Organisation
NGOs
World Education [USA]
ZOA [Holland]
Help Without Frontiers [ Pan-European] |
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