Interview | REACH speaks to Ita Sheehy, former Head of Education at UNHCR, about where the field of refugee education stands today and the role of research in policy and practice.
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Research | In the first literacy census in a refugee camp, researchers assessed all the schools providing lower primary education to refugee children in Kakuma, Kenya.
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Report | This policy paper, published by the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEMR), draws on our long-term research in Lebanon to examine advantages and challenges of including refugees in national schools, particularly using a second shift model.
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Research | This article analyzes how refugee education is understood and designed by actors in diverse positions: at global levels, across 14 refugee-hosting nation-states, within schools, and over time.
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Research | This article explores the personal and professional experiences of refugee teachers, drawing on interviews with Syrian educators living as refugees and working to educate refugees enrolled in non-formal schools in Lebanon.
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Research | This article examines the quality of education available to refugees in both urban and refugee camp settings in Kenya, with a particular focus on teacher pedagogy.
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Report | This policy report explores the educational histories of young refugee children in first-asylum countries, and identifies elements of these that are relevant to post-resettlement education in the United States.
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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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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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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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Blog | This post, published by the Promising Practices Initiative, looks at how education is constrained by prevailing nation-state models of schooling.
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