14 November 2021

Thematic Focus: Education

Blog posts:

Educating the host: It's not just refugees who need ‘integration’ programmes (openDemocracy, Oct. 2021) [text]

Refugee students struggle with displacement and trauma. Here are 3 ways schools can help them belong (The Conversation, Oct. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Reports:

DAFI Annual Report 2020: Aiming Higher (UNHCR, Oct. 2021) [text]

Intergenerational Refugee Aspirations and Academic Success: From uncertain pasts to promising futures (Univ. of South Australia, Oct. 2021) [text]

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) mapping for refugees, asylum seekers and host communities in Egypt (ILO, June 2021) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

*"Allies, access and (collective) action: Young refugee women’s navigation of gendered educational constraints in Greece," Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"Bordered Trajectories: The Impact of Institutional Bordering Practices on Young Refugees’ (Re-)Engagement with Post-15 Education in Greece," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 11 (Nov. 2021) [open access]

"Gender and Access to Higher Education among Refugees in Dadaab and Kakuma Kenya: Challenges and Possible Interventions," East African Journal of Education Studies, vol. 4, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

"The promise of refugee lifelong education: A critical review of the field," International Review of Education, Latest Articles, 9 Nov. 2021 [open access]

"Reducing vocational education inequality for students from refugee backgrounds," International Journal of Inclusive Education, Latest Articles, 30 Oct. 2021 [open access]

"Refugee-background students in New Zealand and the United States: Roots and results of educational policies and practices," Journal of Global Education and Research, vol. 6, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"'They Tell Me That I Can Write and Read, So No Need for School': Challenges in realising international commitments to refugee education in Jordan," Chapter in Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities (Routledge, 2021) [open access]

"Views of Adolescent Bhutanese Refugees on Home Learning During School Shutdown Across the Period of COVID-19," Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, vol. 8, no. 4 (2021) [open access]
- Focuses on Australia.

"'We Are Not Allowed': Barriers to Rohingya refugees' educational and economic opportunities," Chapter in Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities (Routledge, 2021) [open access]

"'Why Should I Stay in the Classroom? Drivers of school dropout among stateless Palestinian adolescents in Jordan," Chapter in Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities (Routledge, 2021) [open access]

Resources:

UNHCR Teaching About Refugees 2021 [access]
- "This page contains a collection of UNHCR teaching materials on refugees, asylum and migration for primary and secondary education, as well as some guidance for teachers working with refugee children in the classroom." Note that a number of items have been updated and new resources produced, but they haven’t all been incorporated into this section.

Some of the new documents include the following:
Guide for Teachers: Recommended approaches for teaching the subject of forced displacement in primary and secondary schools and use of UNHCR’s Teaching About Refugees teaching materials
- Scroll through pages 1-5 of these search results to locate more new/updated teaching materials.

*UPDATED

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