Surveying Children about Their School Environments

As a key partner of the Universal Education Foundation (UEF), HHD prepared the report of findings from the UEF Voice of Children survey to 1,500 students in Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine. The purpose of the survey is to understand young people’s perceptions of how the school learning environment affects all aspects of their well-being: physical, social, emotional, mental and spiritual.

Questions probe the impact of a school’s many features, such as the physical surroundings, relationships between teachers and students, physical and emotional safety, quality of teaching and learning, and the extent to which the curriculum and activities connect young people to the larger world. We are extending this research with a similar survey that taps young people’s views of how learning through information and communications technology and media affects all dimensions of their well-being.

Joining with adults as agents of change, young people present and discuss the survey findings with policymakers, advocating for changes in their learning environments that are more conducive to their well-being.