Eleanore Hargreaves, Brian Lally, Bassel Akar, Jumana Al-Waeli, Jasmine Costello

Schooling for Refugee Children (eBook, ePUB)

A social justice perspective informed by children from Syria

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Schooling for Refugee Children is a collaboration between five authors who explore their interactions with refugee children displaced from Syria to the Lebanese borders and London. Through a programme of carefully tailored research activities, they analyse the children's representations of their personal journeys and current circumstances, especially with regard to ongoing schooling. The children's experiences are expressed through their own words and drawings, disrupting the stereotype of children as 'receivers' rather than empowered actors, and challenging traditional solutions for improving schooling. Throughout, the children are eloquent about their schooling in the context of displacement. Their views and illustrations depict a keen awareness of social justice issues, including on the distribution of wealth, recognition of status and representation of voice. These are framed by the authors within Nancy Fraser's concept of social justice as parity-of-participation. In this way, the book brings to light important representations of some empowering experiences lived through by refugee children from Syria, as well as their thoughts on what has helped their learning and what can be done better. The children's need for care and a sense of belonging in their schools and new communities is given particular emphasis throughout the book, represented by one child, who simply requested, 'Add some more love!'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: UCL Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800086845
• Artikelnr.: 69598130

Autorenporträt

Eleanore Hargreaves is Professor of Learning and Pedagogy at the UCL Institute of Education, where she is Academic Head of Research in the Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment. Her research and teaching focus on hearing the perspectives of children in schooling to promote social justice and wellbeing in schooling globally. With a background in Islamic History, she has worked extensively with disadvantaged children in the SWANA region including in Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan. Her book Children's Experiences of Classrooms (Sage, 2017) inspired ideas related to the current book.