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.
Read MorePoem | 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.
Read MoreBook & 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.
Read MoreReport | 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.
Read MoreReport | This 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report (GEMR) highlights promising ways in which education can support learning and belonging for both the young people who are migrating and those who are hosting them, and the persistent gaps that remain.
Read MoreBlog | This post, published by the Promising Practices Initiative, looks at how education is constrained by prevailing nation-state models of schooling.
Read MoreBlog Series | Featured in Brookings, this series explores the experiences of Syrian refugee children and their teachers, drawing on long-term observations and interviews in Lebanon in formal and non-formal school settings.
Read MorePodcast | Inspired by The Moth, this 1-hour podcast presents the story of James, a man born and raised in Sierra Leone during the country’s civil war.
Read MoreGraphic Novel | This is the story of a Lumad student, originally from the island of Mindanao in Southern Philippines, and his pursuit of education — both for his own personal knowledge gain, and also for the greater Lumad community.
Read MorePlay | This resource focuses on the experiences of an ethnically Albanian young girl during the Kosovo War in 1999.
Read MoreBook Review | Mahasweta Devi, one of India’s foremost writers, introduces readers to Moyna, a ten year old girl who reminds us to inquire not only about the marvels of the natural world, but to interrogate social and structural inequalities.
Read MoreResearch | This article examines how education can disrupt threats of conflict, specifically in the presence of ethnic diversity, by presenting a historical analysis of Botswana.
Read MoreResearch | In this book chapter, Sarah Dryden-Peterson exposes the tensions that exist in a model of including refugees in national education systems, and the precarious situations that it can create in schools and classrooms.
Read MoreResearch | Short paper in Education and Conflict Review exploring the use of backward design as a way to conceptualize refugee education policy and practice.
Read MorePodcast | Sarah Dryden-Peterson sits down with FreshEd’s Will Brehm to discuss ways in which teachers use pedagogy, content, and relationships to create, rather than close, the kinds of future opportunities available to their refugee students.
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