Thematic Focus: Education

Opportunities:

Online discussions: Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students are Changing the Future of Education [info]

- Ongoing conversation series, with sessions taking place every Tuesday during May and up to 21 June 2022.

Conference: Refugee Education Reimagined: A Pedagogy of Hope, Oslo, 20 May 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

"Bangladesh Closes Rohingya Camp Private Schools," VOA News, 14 April 2022 [text]

Brick by brick: Students’ policy ideas to help refugees make their way to the real UN (UNHCR, April 2022) [text]

- Note: Winners of the 2021 Model UN Refugee Challenge are listed here.

Reports & journal articles:

Aspiration and Access to Primary and Secondary Education for Internally Displaced Children in Pakistan, RID Working Paper, no. 20 (Researching Internal Displacement, April 2022) [text]

"Delineating caveats for (quality) education during displacement: Critiquing the impact of forced migration on access to education," Migration Studies, vol. 9, no. 2 (July 2021) [ResearchGate]

- Focuses on IDPs in Zimbabwe.

"An Examination of the Legal and Policy Framework on Child Refugee Education in Kenya," Journal of Conflict Management and Sustainable Development, vol. 8, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

Niñez migrante y educación: Acceso y permanencia de niñas, niños y adolescentes venezolanos en Lima y La Libertad (Save the Children, April 2022) [text]

- See also related press release in Spanish and English.

A Path Forward: Building a Future for Refugee Students Through Post-Secondary Education (Jesuit Refugee Service, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The right to education of the refugee girl affected by armed conflict in Kenya: insights from the jurisprudence of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child," Law, Democracy & Development, vol. 25, Spec. Iss. (2021) [open access]

Second Language Assessment Issues in Refugee and Migrant Children’s Integration and Education: Assessment Tools and Practices for Young Students with Refugee and Migrant Background in Greece

https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/2/82

"Teacher candidates’ ideological tensions and covert metaphors about Syrian refugees in Turkey: Critical discourse analysis of telecollaboration," Linguistics and Education, vol. 69 (June 2022) [free full-text]

"UK University Initiatives Supporting Forced Migrants: Acts of Resistance or the Reproduction of Structural Inequalities?," Migration & Society, vol. 5, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

Harvard EdCast: How We Can Better Support Refugees in Education, 7 April 2022 [access] 

- See also related news story.

Right Where We Belong Conversation Series [access]

- Follow the link for recordings of discussions that have already taken place.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Education (31 March 2022)