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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552994403321

Autore

Sellars Maura, Dr.

Titolo

Educating Students with Refugee and Asylum Seeker Experiences : A Commitment to Humanity [[electronic resource]] / Maura Sellars, John Fischetti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leverkusen, : Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2019

2019, c2020

ISBN

3-8474-1313-9

3-8474-1345-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 pages)

Disciplina

371.826914

Soggetti

asylum seeker backgrounds

belonging

community

education

ethic of care

humanity

language

pedagogical love

refugee backgrounds

refugee experiences

trauma

wellbeing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses the educational systems into which students with refugee backgrounds are placed when relocated into many of their new homelands. It discusses the current climate of neo liberalism which pervades schooling in many western countries and the subsequent impact on curriculum focus and teaching strategies. It proposes ways in which these students, who are currently the most vulnerable students



in school, can be educated with policies and perspectives which respect the diversity and uniqueness that characterises the world today as the result of the global unrest and subsequent diaspora. The impact of power, politics, people and pedagogies on the prospects of these is investigated and a model for holistic education, which includes the wisdom and care of pedagogical love is discussed as way in which a more human and compassionate approach to education for these and all students of difference can be integrated into school communities despite neo liberal imperatives in education. Research indicates that schools which are spaces of safety and belonging, through leadership of care and empathy, can provide successful educational opportunities for students who have asylum seeker and refugee backgrounds and experiences.