Browsing by Author "Dryden-Peterson, Sarah"
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Botho – “I Am Because We are.” Constructing National Identity in the Midst of Ethnic Diversity in Botswana’s Junior Secondary Schools
Mulimbi, Bethany (2017-05-05)Multiethnic states globally face the dilemma of how to negotiate ethnic diversity while promoting a unified national identity. In Botswana, a remarkable example of peace and stability in Sub-Saharan Africa, two highly ... -
Family–school relationships in immigrant children’s well-being: the intersection of demographics and school culture in the experiences of black African immigrants in the United States
Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth (2017-03-17)This article explores the types of family-school relationships that promote academic, socioeconomic, and social and emotional well-being of black African immigrant children in the United States. The data are ethnographic, ... -
The Global Partnership for Education’s evolving support to fragile and conflict-affected states
Menashy, Francine; Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth (Elsevier BV, 2015)In this study, we trace the history of policy development within the Global Partnership for Education to discern the drivers behind the uptake of its shifting policies relating to education in fragile and conflict-affected ... -
Pathways to educational success among refugees: Connecting locally and globally situated resources.
Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth; Dahya, Negin; Adelman, Elizabeth Fay (Sage, 2017)This study identifies pathways to educational success among refugees. Data are from an original online survey of Somali diaspora and in-depth qualitative interviews with Somali refugee students educated in the Dadaab refugee ... -
Pathways toward Peace: Negotiating National Unity and Ethnic Diversity through Education in Botswana
Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth; Mulimbi, Bethany Lynn (University of Chicago Press, 2017)This study examines how education can disrupt threats of conflict, specifically in the presence of ethnic diversity. We present a historical analysis of Botswana, using methods of process tracing drawing on documents, ... -
Refugee education in countries of first asylum: Breaking open the black box of pre-resettlement experiences
Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth (SAGE Publications, 2015)The number of refugees who have fled across international borders due to conflict and persecution is at the highest level in recorded history. The vast majority of these refugees find exile in low-income countries neighboring ... -
Refugee education: Education for an unknowable future
Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth (Informa UK Limited, 2017)Conflict and displacement are increasingly protracted, requiring rethinking of refugee education as a long-term endeavor, connected not only to the idea of return but to the on-going nature of exile. In this essay, I examine ... -
Refugee Education: The Crossroads of Globalization
Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth (Sage, 2016)In this article, I probe a question at the core of comparative education – how to realize the right to education for all and ensure opportunities to use that education for future participation in society. I do so ... -
Responses to cultural diversity in Botswana’s schools: links between national policy, school actions and students’ civic equality
Mulimbi, Bethany Lynn; Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth (Informa UK Limited, 2017)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. Through data collected in observations, ... -
Teachers as memory makers: Testimony in the making of a new history in South Africa
Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth; Siebörger, Rob (Elsevier BV, 2006)This article examines the use of testimony in the making of a new history in South Africa, situating this phenomenon in the context of public construction of memory and identifying history teachers as critical to the ... -
“There is still peace. There are no wars.”: Prioritizing unity over diversity in Botswana’s social studies policies and practices and the implications for positive peace
Mulimbi, Bethany Lynn; Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth (Elsevier BV, 2018) -
Tracing pathways to higher education for refugees: the role of virtual support networks and mobile phones for women in refugee camps
Dahya, Negin; Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth (Informa UK Limited, 2016)In this paper, we explore the role of online social networks in the cultivation of pathways to higher education for refugees, particularly for women. We compare supports garnered in local and offline settings to those ... -
“When I Am a President of Guinea”: Resettled Refugees Traversing Education in Search of a Future
Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth; Reddick, Celia (Informa UK Limited, 2017)This article explores how resettled refugees’ aspirations cultivated through education collide with post-schooling realities. We find that post-graduation barriers of financial insecurity, housing insecurity, violence ...