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A Modern Guide to Refugee Education
Comparative Perspectives and Innovative Practices
9781803928395 Edward Elgar Publishing
Exploring international opportunities and challenges, this incisive Modern Guide provides an authoritative overview of refugee education. Expert authors reconsider dominant paradigms through a postcolonial lens, confronting national policy failures and highlighting avenues for innovation.
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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.
Critical Acclaim
‘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, USA
– 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, USA
