Ressource Reach Up and Learn in the Syria Response: Adapting and implementing an evidence-based home visiting program in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria This report aims to highlight one major initiative, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) implementation of the Reach Up and Learn program in the Middle East, and the ways in which this initiative is providing vital support to both children and their caregivers affected by the Syrian refugee crisis.
Ressource COVID-19 crisis: emerging impact on young refugees’ education and wellbeing in the UK This document outlines the emerging impact of the COVID-19 crisis on young refugees’ education and wellbeing in the UK, based on RSN’s direct support work with young refugees in recent weeks. It also details recommendations to central government, local authorities and education stakeholders to help ensure that young refugees’ education and wellbeing is not forgotten during this crisis.
Blog #LearningNeverStops(?): A teacher and refugee student’s reflections on Covid-19 school closures in Lebanon In a country already struggling with an economic crisis, Syrian refugee learners are experiencing many layers of crises: fleeing their homes, learning in afternoon shifts within an under-funded public school system; living through economic collapse as non-citizens without social protections; and, now facing a global pandemic.
Blog Continuing Learning and Community During School Closures: Lessons from our work at REACH We can mitigate some losses and the unequal ways in which they will be experienced if we as educators, families, communities, and researchers focus on a few central lessons from other settings of school closure.
Ressource Finding solutions to Greece’s refugee education crisis This report presents proposals for immediate action to support children and youth trapped on the Greek islands. It puts forward strategies to improve refugee education not just on the islands but on the Greek mainland, where 76,000 refugees have been transferred since 2015
Ressource Journal on Education in Emergencies: Volume 5, Number 2 The second part of the JEiE special issue on refugees and education focuses on opportunities and outcomes in refugee education as they connect to rights, funding actors, literacy, belonging, and teacher development.
Ressource Editorial Note: Journal on Education in Emergencies: Volume 5, Number 2 In this editorial note, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Jo Kelcey, and S. Garnett Russell—lead editors of the special issue—identify the key themes that emerge among the articles in JEiE Volume 5, Number 2.
Ressource Exploring the Enforceability of Refugees’ Right to Education: A Comparative Analysis of Human Rights Treaties Authors Sarah Horsch Carsley and S. Garnett Russell identify why the three treaties that address refugees’ right to education are among the least enforceable in international human rights law.
Ressource Are Refugee Children Learning? Early Grade Literacy in a Refugee Camp in Kenya Authors Benjamin Piper, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Vidur Chopra, Celia Reddick, and Arbogast Oyanga reveal that literacy outcomes for youth in the lower primary grades who live in Kakuma refugee camp are lower than those of their disadvantaged peers in a nearby host community.
Ressource Refugee Students’ Academic Motivation in Displacement: The Case of Kakuma Refugee Camp Author Jihae Cha finds that a sense of belonging at school is the strongest predictor of academic motivation among 664 primary school students living in Kakuma refugee camp.
