| Record Number |
21555 |
| ISBN |
9780674267992 |
| Location |
325.21 DRY |
| Author |
Dryden-Peterson, Sarah, (author). |
| Title |
Right where we belong : how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education / Sarah Dryden-Peterson. |
| Published |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022. |
| Collation |
pages cm. |
| Content types |
text |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents Note |
Prologue: Our futures -- Teacher, Kampala, Uganda. August 2005 -- Sanctuary, Kampala, Uganda. March 2003 -- Power, Bujumbura, Burundi. December 2013 -- Purpose, Cairo, Egypt. July 2014 -- Learning, Cape Town, South Africa. August 2002 -- Belonging, Dadaab, Kenya. July 2013 -- Epilogue: Home, Ottawa, Canada. March 2012. |
| Summary Note |
"In Right Where We Belong, Sarah Dryden-Peterson argues that, although refugees face formidable obstacles in securing educations, there is good reason to have hope. Refugee teachers and students themselves, she reveals, are leading the way. Drawing upon fifteen years of fieldwork and more than 600 interviews in 23 countries, Dryden-Peterson shows that, from open-air classrooms in refugee camps in Uganda to the hallways of high schools in Maine, a new vision for refugee education is emerging."-- Publisher. |
| “[W]here governments and international agencies have been stymied, refugee teachers and students themselves are leading. From open-air classrooms in Uganda to the hallways of high schools in Maine, new visions for refugee education are emerging ... Drawing on more than 600 interviews in twenty-three countries, Dryden-Peterson shows how teachers and students are experimenting with flexible forms of learning. Rather than adopt the unrealistic notion that all will soon return to ‘normal,’ these schools embrace unfamiliarity, develop students’ adaptiveness, and demonstrate how children, teachers, and community members can build supportive relationships across lines of difference.” – Book jacket. |
| Includes reference to Australia's refugee resettlement policies. |
| Subject |
Refugee children -- Education |
| Refugees -- Education |
| Educational innovations |
| Teacher-student relationships |
