Language, teaching, and pedagogy for refugee education / edited by Enakshi Sengupta, and Patrick Blessinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sengupta, Enakshi, editor.

Blessinger, Patrick, editor.

Series:

Innovations in higher education teaching and learning ; 2055-3641 v. 15.

Innovations in higher education teaching and learning, 2055-3641 ; volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Education (Higher).

Refugees.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2019

Summary:

This volume is focused on the core areas of imparting education to the refugee population and highlights the recent developments intended to meet an urgent need: that of the refugees who have no or very little previous schooling and who are in need of both language learning and furthering their studies for higher education. This book is designed to provide recognition to those who are working relentlessly towards imparting education to vulnerable people and giving them the tools they need to help withstand and recover from the effects of conflict and displacement. The chapters in this book speaks about some exemplary work done by individuals and institutions from Africa to Germany.

Contents:

Prelims

Part I: Seeking higher education

Introduction to language, teaching, and pedagogy for refugee education

Chapter 1: Asylum-seeking students' experience of higher education in the UK

Chapter 2: Conceptualizing higher education aspirations formation among marginalized migrant youth in Johannesburg, South Africa

Chapter 3: Occupation-based didactic model for english language teaching to refugees to improve their sustainability and social integration

Chapter 4: Post-secondary education and the full integration of government-assisted refugees in Canada: a direction for program innovation

Chapter 5: Literacy instruction without borders: ideas for developing best practices for reading programs in refugee settings

Chapter 6: "Start Ins Deutsche" - students teach German to refugees at Goethe University Frankfurt

Part II: Technology and higher education

Chapter 7: Refugees, education, and disability: addressing the educational needs of Arabic-speaking refugees with learning challenges

Chapter 8: Adaptation of conventional technologies with refugee language learners: an overview of possibilities

Chapter 9: How social media can play a role in an educational context, in an informal refugee camp in Europe

Chapter 10: Reaching refugees: Southern New Hampshire University's Project-based degree model for refugee higher education

Chapter 11: Creating a borderless world of education for refugees

About the authors

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781787439382

1787439380

9781787147997

1787147991