Refugee Education: Power, Purposes, and Pedagogies Across Contexts
29 October 2021
What would it take to ensure that all young people globally have opportunities to learn, to feel a sense of belonging, and to be prepared to help build more peaceful and equitable futures?
Fifteen years of ethnographic research and more than 600 interviews in 23 countries with children experiencing conflict and seeking refuge raises new ways to think about persistent conceptual questions in global education, related to the purposes of education, forms of power over what and how children learn, and the mechanisms by which education acts on inequities.
Refugee REACH founder and director Sarah Dryden-Peterson of the Harvard Graduate School of Education delivered a lecture on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, titled “Refugee Education: Power, Purposes, and Pedagogies Across Contexts,” that focused on these questions.
The event was hosted by the New York University (NYU) Global TIES for Children, an international research center embedded within NYU’s Institute of Human Development and Social Change. Click here to watch a recording of this event.
Her talk was based on her forthcoming book, Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education (Spring 2022), now available for pre-order online.