Creating A Borderless World of Education for Refugees
Language, Teaching, and Pedagogy for Refugee Education
ISBN: 978-1-78714-800-0, eISBN: 978-1-78714-799-7
Publication date: 2 January 2019
Abstract
Today, there are 16.1 million refugees worldwide under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ mandate. Among the refugee population, half of them are children and six million are of primary and secondary school-going age. The number of displaced people around the world has reached unprecedented levels in the recent years since the Syrian crisis escalated. Refugees, because of language and other barriers, face a particularly difficult challenge in attaining even a basic education. Keeping the barriers and challenges in mind, education is now seeking the help of technology to create new and sometimes unexpected opportunities for pathways to education for refugees. This chapter will highlight the contribution of University of the People (https://www.uopeople.edu), a tuition-free, non-profit, American accredited, online university that has been working with refugees to enable access to higher education for those living in refugee camps and other displaced people around the world.
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Citation
Sengupta, E., Reshef, S. and Blessinger, P. (2019), "Creating A Borderless World of Education for Refugees", Sengupta, E. and Blessinger, P. (Ed.) Language, Teaching, and Pedagogy for Refugee Education (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, Vol. 15), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 181-191. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-364120180000015013
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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