S2E2 - Can Teacher Training Programs Influence Gender Norms?

This is an episode of Behind the Pages - the podcast of the Journal on Education in Emergencies. Join us for these exciting and timely conversations with JEiE authors about their work on education in regions affected by crisis and conflict. JEiE is supported by the Education Above All Foundation. Can Teacher Training Programs Influence Gender Norms? Mixed-Methods Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda by Marjorie Chinen, Andrea Coombes, Thomas De Hoop, Rosa Castro-Zarzur, and Mohammed Elmeski In this episode, we talk with Marjorie Chinen and Andrea Coombes about their work on a first-of-its-kind randomized controlled trial of a teacher training program in Karamoja, Uganda. Rising from the ethnic- and gender-based violence of the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency, peacebuilding in Karamoja requires new attitudes toward gender socialization, and evidence from the RCT suggests training can help teachers make progress. This interview is conducted by Sarah Sualehi.