How Teachers Can Prepare Refugee Children For Unknowable Futures
This blog addresses how education can help refugee young people to make knowable their futures in the face of great uncertainty. To do so, education needs to counter the exclusion and isolation that many refugees feel in the places they live. This endeavor requires very skilled teachers.
A Syrian teacher instructs fellow refugee students in Malatya, Turkey in March 2016. Photo: Volkan Kasik/Anadolu Agency. Available on NewsDeeply.
As a global community, we must invest in teachers more than ever before, and to do so requires a shift in thinking. Teachers of refugees are not a private, national good but a public, global one. Teachers who have the skills to address each student’s needs, to build welcoming communities, and to help children chart their pathways to the future, even amid uncertainty, are not only good for refugee children but for all children. The future of inclusive, safe and productive communities may depend on them.
Read "How Teachers Can Prepare Refugee Children For Unknowable Futures” by Sarah Dryden-Peterson (2017) in Refugees Deeply.