Interview | REACH sits down with Manar Marouf of IRC’s resettlement office to discuss her professional path, her experience bringing classroom-learning into the field, and what gives her hope.
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Digital gallery | A curated website that displays artwork created by Rohingya individuals living in Cox’s Bazar, in an effort to bring light to the voices of the Rohingya people.
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Insight | Featured article in Harvard Ed Magazine’s Summer 2020 edition highlighting six steps schools and communities should take to welcome displaced students into their communities and instill a sense of belonging.
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Spoken word | This poem recounts the story of Salim, who was born in Gaza and lived through two Palestinian Intifadas against Israel, and what shaped his heart and mind from childhood to adulthood.
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Poem | A story based on the experiences of Lama Norbu, who was born in Tibet in the 1960s and now lives in the United States, and touches upon cultural elements of the conflict between Tibet and China.
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Poem | This story is about a young teacher who is living through an unprecedented time of uncertainty and hardship in the history of Indian Administered Kashmir, while highlighting her strength, sense of duty, and compassion for her students.
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Podcast | A story about education and resilience in times of conflict, based on an interview with an asylum seeker from Eritrea now living in Israel, who fled his country following its War of Independence against Ethiopia.
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Op-Ed | REACH founder and director Sarah Dryden-Peterson shares lessons learned from her own work with displaced refugees and people in settings of conflict that can help policymakers, educators, and researchers plan for a future of learning and uncertainty during Covid-19.
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Podcast | Sarah Dryden-Peterson discusses the impact of Covid-19 on education systems worldwide, and the large body of research on education in emergency situations that can help guide us through this unprecedented situation.
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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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Research | Vidur Chopra and Sarah Dryden-Peterson examine the ways young Syrian refugees perceive and navigate the symbolic boundaries of belonging when displaced in Lebanon.
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Interview | Dr. Alebachew Kemisso tells REACH about what drew him to the field of refugee education, and the challenges and opportunities of bridging research, policy, and action related to the education of refugees in Ethiopia.
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Insight | Sarah Dryden-Peterson shares her perspective on the school shutdowns caused by Covid-19 in this NPR article, offering lessons from other education in emergencies.
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Research | This editorial note introduces the second part of the Journal on Education in Emergencies special issue on refugees and education, featuring articles that focus on opportunities and outcomes in refugee education as they connect to rights, funding actors, literacy, belonging, and teacher development.
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Insight | HGSE article highlighting REACH’s work, plus other practices used in global emergency education settings to maintain a sense of human connection in communities during Covid-19.
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