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Education in Emergencies in Samoa

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Rafia Naz, National University of Samoa
Muhammed Hakeem Khan, Mechanical Engineering Consultant Services
Faafofoga Peseta-Esau, National University of Samoa

Abstract

Crisis-sensitive educational planning has become the norm when COVID-19 pandemic afflicted the educational platform creating chaos in Teaching and learning requiring different levels of reforms. This scholarship provides an overview of the “Emergency Teaching” response based on Reflective practice in the pandemic and further provides a
Case Study of the Stimulus package offered by the Faculty of Business and Entrepreneurship at the National University of Samoa as a response to the crisis and identifies the key challenges and benefits of the programme. It further explores the policy and supportive components that are requisite for promoting successful delivery and draws
implications for crisis educational planning.

Keywords: Crisis Educational Planning, COVID-19, Faculty of Business and Entrepreneurship, Emergency Teaching

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