Thematic Focus: Education

Opportunity:

CFP: Journal on Education in Emergencies [info]
- Contributions sought for special issue on "Psychosocial Support and Social and Emotional Learning in Emergencies." This is an open access journal with no APCs. Submission deadline is 7 January 2020.

Blog posts & press:

Asylum Seekers Have a Right to Higher Education and Academics can be Powerful Advocates (The Conversation, Oct. 2019) [text]

From Campus to Camp and Back (AMMODI Blog, Oct. 2019) [text]
- Focuses on refugee students in Kakuma refugee camp.

‘Let’s design a waterproof shoe for a refugee child’: How to Teach Science and Maths so Students Actually Care (The Conversation, Nov. 2019) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

"A Sense of Belonging for Refugee and Immigrant Families," Scoop News, 1 Nov. 2019 [text]
- "Two major studies are putting refugee and immigrant children at the centre of the resettlement process in New Zealand, researching how early childhood education can help refugees find a sense of belonging in Aotearoa, and sustain a sense of belonging in home countries."

Universities Providing Scholarships to Refugees Call on Others to Do the Same (UNHCR, Nov. 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

2018 Annual Report: UNHCR – Educate A Child Programme (UNHCR, Nov. 2019) [text]

Arab States 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report - Migration, Displacement, and Education: Building Bridges, not Walls (UNESCO, Nov. 2019) [access]
- "The first regional edition of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report...analyses the impact of these population movements on education systems in the region and presents a series of urgent recommendations to protect the education rights of those on the move." (See blog post for more info.) See also eight background papers for the report, focusing on Egypt, GCC countries, Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and IDPs in Iraq, Syria, Sudan and Yemen.

'Are We Not Human?': Denial of Education for Rohingya Refugee Children in Bangladesh (Human Rights Watch, Dec. 2019) [text]

Confronting the Challenge of Immigrant and Refugee Student Underachievement: Policies and Practices from Canada, New Zealand and the European Union, UNU-MERIT Working Paper, no. 48 (United Nations Univ., 2019) [text]

Defending the ‘Right to the City’: How Cities Include Migrants and Refugees in and through Education, Policy Paper, no. 40 (UNESCO, Nov. 2019) [text]
- See also related World Education Blog post.

"Gender-Related Challenges in Educational Interventions with Syrian Refugee Parents of Trauma-Affected Children in Turkey," Children, vol. 6, no. 10 (Oct. 2019) [open access]

"Integration of Refugees at Universities: Austria’s MORE Initiative," Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, Latest Articles, 7 Nov. 2019 [open access]

Navigating the Humanitarian-development Nexus in Forced Displacement Contexts (Unicef, Sept. 2019) [text via INEE]
- "This Think Piece aims to locate this humanitarian-development nexus within the education sector, and to identify opportunities for key partners to seize the momentum around this nexus, particularly with regard to learners, teachers, national education system actors affected by forced displacement."

Power and Possibility: Adult Education in a Diverse and Complex World (Brill, Nov. 2019) [open access]
- This book includes a section entitled "Power in a Diverse and Complex World: Learning, Education and Global Migration," with three chapters focusing respectively on Austria, Australia and Belgium. Scroll to p. 129.

Strengthening Coordinated Education Planning and Response in Crises: Analysis Framework (ODI, Oct. 2019) [access]
- Follow link for executive summary and infographic. A revision of the initial full report and case studies will be published in Dec. 2019.

"Supporting the Inclusion of Refugees: Policies, Theories and Actions," International Journal of Inclusive Education, Latest Articles, 21 Oct. 2019 [free full-text]
- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Education (7 Oct. 2019)

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