Education, Refugees and Asylum Seekers (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Demirdjian, Lala

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A global exploration of formal and non-formal education provision to refugees and asylum seekers in refugee camps, and in schools and universities of host countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441150653
• Artikelnr.: 38301190

Autorenporträt

Lala Demirdjian is a researcher focusing on the Palestinian refugee education in Lebanon. She has worked as a consultant for The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Lebanon, and the National Association for Vocational Training and Social Services (NAVTSS) and, as a campaign coordinator, for the Welfare Association, Lebanon. She is currently engaged in a Teacher Exchange Program and teaches in a community school, in Boston, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements \ Series Editor's Preface \ Notes on Contributors \
Introduction: Education, Refugees and Asylum Seekers - A Global Overview
Lala Demirdjian \ 1. The Educational Life Histories of a Group of North
Korean Defector University Students in South Korea Candice Lee \ 2. Refugee
Education in Thailand: Displacement, Dislocation and Disjuncture Su-Ann Oh
\ 3. The Provision of Education in the Palestinian Refugee Camps, in
Lebanon Lala Demirdjian \ 4. Non-Formal Education as a Means of Supporting
the Well-Being of Resettled Refugees: Case Studies of Community Approaches
in Denver, Colorado, USA Janet Shriberg, Susan Downs-Karkos and Stacey
Weisberg \ 5. Refugees and Education in Kent, England James Dada \ 6.
Century Learning: the Role of Community Cohesion in Refugee Education Megan
McCorriston \ Conclusion \ Index