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Pathways toward Peace: Negotiating National Unity and Ethnic Diversity through Education in Botswana
(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: The Crossroads of Globalization
(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 ...
Pathways to educational success among refugees: Connecting locally and globally situated resources.
(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 ...
Refugee education in countries of first asylum: Breaking open the black box of pre-resettlement experiences
(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 ...
Tracing pathways to higher education for refugees: the role of virtual support networks and mobile phones for women in refugee camps
(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 ...
Refugee education: Education for an unknowable future
(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 ...
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
(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, ...
Teachers as memory makers: Testimony in the making of a new history in South Africa
(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 ...
The Global Partnership for Education’s evolving support to fragile and conflict-affected states
(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 ...
Bridging Home: Building Relationships Between Immigrant and Long-Time Resident Youth
(2010)
Background: There is rising evidence that relationships that bridge between immigrants and long-time residents are critical to immigrant integration and to the overall heath of communities. The processes by which this ...