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Resource | This new resource is for educators who seek to know about their Afghan students’ experiences to better support them. The resource highlights three central elements that can cultivate trust: Safe classrooms, Community connections, and Quality learning. It ends with suggested questions for educators to facilitate conversations about each of the three elements of trust with students, families, and community leaders.
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Video | Refugee REACH director Sarah Dryden-Peterson delivers a lecture titled Refugee Education: Power, Purposes, and Pedagogies Across Contexts, hosted by NYU’s Global TIES for Children.
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Video | New animation and research by the Refugee REACH team examines pedagogies of care and belonging in refugee contexts. Research included 8 months of observations in public and private schools in Lebanon and over 100 hours of interviews with Syrian Grade 9 students, their teachers, and families.
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Video | New animation and research by the Refugee REACH team examines pedagogies of care and belonging in refugee contexts. Research included 8 months of observations in public and private schools in Lebanon and over 100 hours of interviews with Syrian Grade 9 students, their teachers, and families.
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Interview | REACH team member Hellen Zziwa spoke with Dr. Marangu Njogu of Windle International about his work, the challenges of providing quality instruction in refugee camp settings, and the importance of supporting young learners throughout their educational journeys.
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Interview | Elisabeth King and Cyrus Samii spoke with REACH team member Laura Cesaro about their new book and the implications of their findings for policymakers and schools as they seek to create conditions for peace in contexts of conflict and ethnic diversity.
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Article | Refugee REACH director Sarah Dryden-Peterson discusses two mobilities that emerge through her team’s work on refugee education: cognitive mobility and temporal mobility. These have broad relevance for what, how, and why children and young people learn, including as related to language in education.
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Research | This article examines nation-state policies that have prioritized toleration of diversity over recognition through comparative case studies of three junior secondary schools in Botswana.
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Podcast | Celia Reddick and Sarah Dryden-Peterson discuss language of instruction in refugee education on the FreshEd podcast, hosted by Will Brehm.
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Video | Researchers from the Peace Research Institute Oslo and Harvard University teamed up with PositiveNegatives to convey the narratives of refugee students and teachers in the Dadaab refugee camps of Kenya.
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Book chapter | Refugee REACH director Sarah Dryden-Peterson and affiliate Hania Mariën jointly contributed a book chapter in The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, focusing on the right to education.
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Video | ‘Coffee & Chat’ with Refugee REACH director Sarah Dryden-Peterson focusing on refugee education in Europe and North America, hosted by the SIRIUS Policy Network.
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Video | REACH co-founder Vidur Chopra of Teachers College presents his research, together with Helen Haste, during a two-part webinar series on UNESCO’s Futures of Education Initiative.
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Video | Refugee REACH director Sarah Dryden-Peterson and students Esther Elonga, Martha Franco, Orelia Jonathan, and Kristia Wantchekon discuss how experiences of uncertainty affect the research design process amid multiple pandemics of Covid-19 and racism.
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Video | Sarah Dryden-Peterson and Celia Reddick of HGSE present their research findings during the virtual Language and Migration symposium, hosted by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
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