World Teachers' Day: their role during the crisis, their expectations of recognition
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Teacher in class.
Pixabay / CC0 / Giovannacco
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
50 min
The Covid-19 pandemic and the closure of schools affected 1.5 billion students and 63 million primary and secondary teachers (source Unesco).
A crisis that has befallen already saturated or aging education systems.
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The teachers answered the call and mobilized for their students.
But for what recognition?
Their wages and working conditions are more relevant than ever.
Some teachers in the private sector in Africa in particular are on the verge of falling into precariousness.
Their schools did not collect tuition fees, they were not paid and the reopening of some schools may be compromised.
With:
- Barbara Tournier
,
UNESCO
coordinator
of the research projects of the
International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)
on teacher management
- Valérie Sipahimalani
, Deputy Secretary General of
the National Union of Secondary Education (SNES)
in France
- Amoussou Anselme
, secretary general of the
Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Benin (CSA-Bénin).
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