Report | Background paper prepared for UNESCO’s 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report. It explores the inclusion of refugees in national education systems, focusing on case studies in Kenya, Uganda, and Lebanon.
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Research | This article explores tensions in young people’s experiences under the policy of inclusion of refugees in national education systems, in the geographically segregated setting of a refugee camp in Kenya.
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Research | This article explores how resettled refugees’ aspirations cultivated through education collide with post-schooling realities, and the barriers that stand in the way of resettled refugee young people achieving their long-term goals.
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Video | Educator Jacques Bwira of the Great Lakes Primary School in Uganda discusses the challenges and opportunities of different models of refugee education.
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Blog | This piece in News Deeply addresses how education can help refugee young people to make knowable their futures in the face of great uncertainty.
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Children’s book | A story about a boy who was born, raised, and continues to live in the region of Putumayo, Colombia, which has been vulnerable to the violence of clandestine armed actors and state-sanctioned counterattacks throughout Colombia’s decades-long civil war.
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Research | This study identifies pathways to educational success for refugees. It examines the nature and content of supports that students identify as important.
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Short Story & Video | The true story of a young boy, Anis, who grew up in the West Bank amid conflict, and the solace he found through music.
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Children’s Book | A narrative of one individual’s pursuit of education during a time of conflict in Nicaragua. This resource includes a variety of activities and offers two “versions” to suit students’ learning needs and specific curriculum.
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Research | This article shows how students of majority and minority ethnic backgrounds in Botswana understand national identity as a path toward higher levels of education and employment.
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Children’s Book | This resource details the personal account of Abdul, an Afghani child whose schooling was interrupted by armed conflict, but who never gave up in his pursuit for education.
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Collection of Poems | Inspired by an interview with a Palestinian girl who was born in Jerusalem and grew up in the West Bank. Educators may find this resource useful for specific units focusing on the Middle East and experiences of refugeehood.
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Curriculum | The first in a series exploring challenges that children face around the world, this account provides a compelling and informative picture of one fictionalized experience against a particular historical and geographical backdrop.
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Poem | A three-part story that chronicles one man’s emotional trajectory beginning in Beirut, Lebanon just before the start of the Lebanese Civil War, through the early stages of the conflict, and into his life in Saudi Arabia.
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Book & Curriculum | A two-part K12 resource that shares the story of a young refugee boy, Aleze, who flees to Burundi from his home in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is later resettled in the United States.
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Report | UNHCR’s Refugee Education 2030 strategy that draws in part on results from a 14-country study conducted by the REACH team, together with Michelle Bellino, available in Sociology of Education.
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