A Modern Guide to Refugee Education
Comparative Perspectives and Innovative Practices
Published on 21. March 2025
Book
Hardback
428 pages
978-1-80392-839-5 (ISBN)
Description
This incisive Modern Guide provides an authoritative overview of refugee education, exploring international opportunities and challenges. Expert authors reconsider dominant paradigms through a postcolonial lens, confronting failures in national policies and highlighting avenues for innovation.
Drawing on a diverse array of international case studies, this Modern Guide conducts a broad-ranging analysis that demonstrates the plurality of refugee experiences and disrupts universalist assumptions. Chapters cover barriers to education from early childhood to university level, including racism, language divides and disciplinary practices, as well as showcasing key strategies to overcome these. The book focuses on the need to better respond to social diversity in learning institutions globally, raising key questions surrounding the meaning, purpose and organisation of education itself.
Academics and students in development studies, comparative education, migration studies, sociology and education policy will benefit from the novel perspectives in this Modern Guide. It is also an invaluable resource for United Nations and government policymakers, teachers and community activists.
Drawing on a diverse array of international case studies, this Modern Guide conducts a broad-ranging analysis that demonstrates the plurality of refugee experiences and disrupts universalist assumptions. Chapters cover barriers to education from early childhood to university level, including racism, language divides and disciplinary practices, as well as showcasing key strategies to overcome these. The book focuses on the need to better respond to social diversity in learning institutions globally, raising key questions surrounding the meaning, purpose and organisation of education itself.
Academics and students in development studies, comparative education, migration studies, sociology and education policy will benefit from the novel perspectives in this Modern Guide. It is also an invaluable resource for United Nations and government policymakers, teachers and community activists.
Reviews / Votes
'This impressive Modern Guide to Refugee Education deserves the full attention of all wanting to learn more about the multifaceted challenges, innovative approaches and promising practices in the education of young refugees globally. The insightful contributions - with an emphasis on the Global South - make it a much-needed publication.' -- Lutine de Wal Pastoor, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies ''This new collection of interdisciplinary research takes stock of educational research, policy, and practice across diverse contexts. Thoughtfully selected cases document how different educational systems, policies, and possibilities for belonging produce unequal consequences for refugees in settings of asylum and resettlement.' -- Michelle J. Bellino, University of Michigan, USAMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80392-839-5 (9781803928395)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Edited by Julie Matthews, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Education, The University of Adelaide and Quentin Maire, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Content
Contents
Introduction 1
Julie Matthews and Quentin Maire
PART I
THE GLOBAL SOUTH - KEY ISSUES
1 Refugee education in the global South: Latent and
contemporary challenges 25
Fawwaz A. Momani, Ruba F. Bataineh, Tamara A.
Al-Yakoub and Rula F. Bataineh
2 Refugee education in Jordan 39
Elisheva Cohen
3 UNRWA and the politics of education for Palestine refugees
in Lebanon 57
Kathleen Fincham
4 Political turmoil and human capital development: Refugee
education in the Sudans 73
Augustino Ting Mayai
5 Protracted refugee situations: Insights into Uganda's
educational responses for refugees 88
Paul Ogwang Tulibaleka and Prichard Denzel Kavuma
6 The well-being and motivation of refugee teachers in
humanitarian contexts: A study in Dadaab refugee camp,
Kenya 104
David K. Kunyu, Denish Odanga and James Sifuna Wang'anya
7 Dilemmas of refugee education: Lessons learned from
education of Syrian children in Turkiye 127
Aslihan Mccarthy
PART II
THE GLOBAL NORTH - KEY ISSUES
8 Media representations of refugee students and refugee
education in the global North 143
J. Karam, Amber N. Warren and Gokce Unlu
9 Fostering resilience and countering racism for educational
success among refugee students in Australia 161
Hyacinth Udah
10 Refugee education for resettled refugees in settler colonial
Australia: Beyond conditional inclusion 185
Melanie Baak and Mehmet Aslan
11 Refugee parental aspirations and their children's education 206
Hannah Soong, Rebecca Reid-Nguyen and Mehmet Aslan
12 Higher education for refugees: Global initiatives and national
responses 224
Tebeje Molla
13 Refugee child education and well-being after resettlement to
the United States 242
MaryBeth Chrostowsky
14 Barriers and enablers of refugees' higher education aspirations 260
Brit Lynnebakke
PART III
EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS
15 Ubuntu anti-racism strategies for African students from
refugee backgrounds in Australia 280
Gerald Onsando, Akuch Kuol Anyieth and Yohanna Mequwanint
16 Anti-racist restorative practice: Addressing disciplinary
disparity among youth with refugee and asylum seeking/
asylee backgrounds 297
Patricia Buck
17 Green skills for refugees in Hong Kong 322
18 Cluster learning approaches to early childhood education:
Insights from a refugee settlement in Uganda 346
Esther Smitheram, Sarah Ndlovu and Bea Simpson
19 The Social Innovation Academy: A freesponsible approach to
refugee empowerment 364
John Sadiki and Simone Schmid
20 The Dream Academy: Hope and community for doubly
marginalised refugees and asylum seekers 381
Ngan Nguyen, Mario Villegas, Chani Lieu, Jody McBrien
and Devin Thornburg
Introduction 1
Julie Matthews and Quentin Maire
PART I
THE GLOBAL SOUTH - KEY ISSUES
1 Refugee education in the global South: Latent and
contemporary challenges 25
Fawwaz A. Momani, Ruba F. Bataineh, Tamara A.
Al-Yakoub and Rula F. Bataineh
2 Refugee education in Jordan 39
Elisheva Cohen
3 UNRWA and the politics of education for Palestine refugees
in Lebanon 57
Kathleen Fincham
4 Political turmoil and human capital development: Refugee
education in the Sudans 73
Augustino Ting Mayai
5 Protracted refugee situations: Insights into Uganda's
educational responses for refugees 88
Paul Ogwang Tulibaleka and Prichard Denzel Kavuma
6 The well-being and motivation of refugee teachers in
humanitarian contexts: A study in Dadaab refugee camp,
Kenya 104
David K. Kunyu, Denish Odanga and James Sifuna Wang'anya
7 Dilemmas of refugee education: Lessons learned from
education of Syrian children in Turkiye 127
Aslihan Mccarthy
PART II
THE GLOBAL NORTH - KEY ISSUES
8 Media representations of refugee students and refugee
education in the global North 143
J. Karam, Amber N. Warren and Gokce Unlu
9 Fostering resilience and countering racism for educational
success among refugee students in Australia 161
Hyacinth Udah
10 Refugee education for resettled refugees in settler colonial
Australia: Beyond conditional inclusion 185
Melanie Baak and Mehmet Aslan
11 Refugee parental aspirations and their children's education 206
Hannah Soong, Rebecca Reid-Nguyen and Mehmet Aslan
12 Higher education for refugees: Global initiatives and national
responses 224
Tebeje Molla
13 Refugee child education and well-being after resettlement to
the United States 242
MaryBeth Chrostowsky
14 Barriers and enablers of refugees' higher education aspirations 260
Brit Lynnebakke
PART III
EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS
15 Ubuntu anti-racism strategies for African students from
refugee backgrounds in Australia 280
Gerald Onsando, Akuch Kuol Anyieth and Yohanna Mequwanint
16 Anti-racist restorative practice: Addressing disciplinary
disparity among youth with refugee and asylum seeking/
asylee backgrounds 297
Patricia Buck
17 Green skills for refugees in Hong Kong 322
18 Cluster learning approaches to early childhood education:
Insights from a refugee settlement in Uganda 346
Esther Smitheram, Sarah Ndlovu and Bea Simpson
19 The Social Innovation Academy: A freesponsible approach to
refugee empowerment 364
John Sadiki and Simone Schmid
20 The Dream Academy: Hope and community for doubly
marginalised refugees and asylum seekers 381
Ngan Nguyen, Mario Villegas, Chani Lieu, Jody McBrien
and Devin Thornburg