Hargreaves, Eleanore;
Lally, Brian;
Akar, Bassel;
Al-Waeli, Jumana;
Costello, Jasmine;
(2024)
Schooling for Refugee Children: A social justice perspective informed by children from Syria.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
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!’
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Schooling for Refugee Children: A social justice perspective informed by children from Syria |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800086838 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800086838 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086838 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Authors, 2024 Images © Authors and copyright holders named in captions, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material are given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Hargreaves, E., Lally, B., Akar, B., Al-Waeli, J. and Costello, J., 2024. Schooling for Refugee Children: A social justice perspective informed by children from Syria. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086838 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | schooling, refugee children, Syria, Lebanon, London, Education |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189336 |
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