Right Where We Belong Press
Right Where We Belong takes us beyond increasingly polarized and isolationist border politics and migration policies and inside of schools to show how refugee children and their teachers address uncertainty and exclusion and figure out how to belong together.
See how the book engages conversations about critical collective challenges of our time.
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TVO, The Agenda
6 June 2023
Oftentimes, refugee children live in exile, without a permanent home for decades. What happens to them? Sarah Dryden-Peterson's book, Right Where We Belong, takes on this topic.
FreshEd Podcast
11 April 2022
Today Sarah Dryden-Peterson, a regular on FreshEd, joins me to talk about her new book Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students are Changing the Future of Education. Her book is the product of her 15 years of working with and researching refugee education around the world.
Times Higher Education
21 July 2022
Interview with Sarah Dryden-Peterson. The Harvard refugee education expert discusses teaching classes of 200 pupils, living in post-apartheid South Africa and why she is optimistic for the children she meets in migrant camps.
LSE Review of Books Blog
20 June 2022, World Refugee Day
Sarah Dryden-Peterson draws from her recent book, Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education (Harvard University Press), to argue for the need for collective responsibility in refugee education.
The TES Magazine (UK)
10 June 2022
How to support the refugee children your class: The number of refugee children in English classrooms is rising, but many teachers feel unprepared when it comes to offering support. Here, Harvard professor and refugee education expert Sarah Dryden-Peterson shares her advice
YouthToday
Associate Professor Sarah Dryden-Peterson spoke with Kristi Easton about experiences of refugee students in settling into a new home, and what we can do to support them as they make schools home too.
How We Can Better Support Refugees in Education
6 April 2022
Associate Professor Sarah Dryden-Peterson talks about the ways we can better support refugee children and teachers in education around the world.
Protecting the Futures of Refugee Education
4 April 2022
Sarah Dryden-Peterson on how governments and education systems around the world can create safe, welcoming spaces for displaced students.
USA Today
22 February 2022
“Resettlement is about this long-term process of creating a new life, something that might make it seem worthwhile to have left - and I think education is the hope that leaving home might have been worthwhile”