Evaluating Printable Preschool Materials for Humanitarian Settings

Crises like natural disasters, epidemics, political instability, and armed conflict severely impact preschool learning in humanitarian settings. These situations result in displacement, disrupted services, and the loss of school infrastructure, routines, social-emotional support, and learning materials. Educators in these contexts depend on low-bandwidth, portable, and culturally neutral printable materials for classroom management, social-emotional regulation, and basic learning.

There is a significant shortage of suitable printable preschool materials specifically designed for humanitarian contexts. Educators often lack resources that can accommodate the challenges of displacement, limited bandwidth, scarcity of materials, and the need for culturally neutral classroom use. The difficulties in developing appropriate materials have led to a lack of research on how experts evaluate such resources for humanitarian settings.

The study aims to investigate how experts evaluate the usability and humanitarian suitability of low-bandwidth printable preschool materials across four prototype sets developed for use in humanitarian settings.