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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"refugee students"”.
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Women Refugee Students: United Nations' Visual Representation
… women experiencing (re)location in contemporary refugee crises through the lens of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) website. The researcher used visual analysis of digital media in the UNHCR’s ‘Her Turn’ multimedia report, which highlights girls’ education and the UNHCR’s …
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Online Education: Benefits and Challenges for Refugee Students
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>Currently, only 3% of refugees are pursuing higher education opportunities compared to the 37% higher education participation rate globally. There is an urgent need for quality academic work to leave behind the endless descriptive accounts of refugee life and move toward …
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Perceived Factors that Affect the Performance of Refugee Students in Central Virginia
Large numbers of refugees enter into U.S. public schools each year, and school leaders are held accountable for their achievement. School leaders must find ways to support the needs of all of their students despite their race, socioeconomic status, proficiency in English, ability levels, and …
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The Experience of Burmese Refugee Students in Higher Education: Blooming out of Concrete
… is the world’s top resettlement country for refugees and the third largest community of Burmese refugees lives in the state of Indiana. Many refugee families look to their college-age youth to enhance their well-being. This study explored the lived experiences of Burmese refugee college …
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Invisible Students: An Exploration of Refugee Students' Experiences at a Higher Education Institution
This study explores refugee students' experiences at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The study aims to provide an understanding of the challenges faced by this group of students, focusing on their experiences of refugee identity and institutional culture, in order to explore ways of adequately …
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The Unheard Voices of Refugee Students: Understanding Syrian Students’ Well-Being and Capabilities in Jordan’s Double-Shift Schools
… of the experiences and challenges that face refugee students learning in protracted refugee situations like Jordan. The project looks at Syrian refugee students’ experiences and perceptions of learning in Jordan’s segregated, double-shift schools. Education for refugee has focused on …
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A STUDY OF THE CHALLENGES FACED BY STUDENTS WHO IDENTIFY AS REFUGEES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED INTERRUPTED EDUCATION AND TRAUMA
… 65 million people are displaced worldwide. These refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people flee conflict, poverty, environmental degradation, and other conditions forcing them from their homes. In 2020, the number of individuals internally displaced reached 82.4 million; of this …
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Educational Guide: Refugee Children's Storytelling across Curriculum
… is facing a continuous increase in the amount of refugees seeking refuge in the States. This continuous increase places a strain on the current education system that is underequipped to handle an influx of students with very special and unique needs. This thesis discusses these needs and one …
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From Southern Sudan to Adelaide: learning journeys of refugee secondary students
… understanding of a small group of South Sudanese refugee students in Adelaide secondary schools by examining their learning, both in their homeland context in southern Sudan prior to its independence and in their mainstream schooling and life experiences in the Adelaide context. School leaders and …
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Spirit and Body, Heart and Soul: Exploring Student Narratives through Higher Education in Exile
Refugee higher education, as a subset of the larger education in emergencies field, has been rapidly growing since the 2000s. However, a deeper exploration of student experiences is needed to critically understand the potentially transformative aspects of higher education. Responding to this gap, …
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The Rough Road to Work for Rochester Refugees
Refugees face many hardships in adapting to life in new countries, including lack of familiarity with job markets, difficulties with cultural assimilation, and xenophobic resistance from locals. Monroe County and the City of Rochester in New York State have a significant refugee population who are …
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Building Social Self-Efficacy: Investigating How Refugee Adolescents Cultivate School Readiness Through a Summer Youth Readiness Program
Each year, as many as 80,000 refugees are permanently resettled to the United States, 35-40% of whom are individuals under the age of 18 (BRYCS, 2009). The period of resettlement can be extremely complex for refugee adolescents who are faced with additional stressors inherent to this developmental …
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Refugee college students acquiring academic literacy: an exploration of how their views of academic literacy impact the process
… and views of the involuntary immigrant college students and the academic literacy definition and views of the hosting country; and second, to examine how these students acquire academic literacy over the course of one academic semester at a US college. This study provided understanding of how …
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SCHOOLING AT THE INTERSECTION OF REFUGEE IDENTITY AND (DIS)ABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FROM NORTH KOREAN STUDENTS WITH REFUGEE BACKGROUNDS
… have previously found that school-age refugees and asylum-seekers are frequently characterized as experiencing physical, emotional, or psychological disabilities or disorders in schools because of the adversity that they face and a lack of adequate resources during their refugee …
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Public health surveillance systems "Evidence informing practice"
… identification of preventable conditions in refugee students attending an Intensive English centre. All three studies demonstrate the importance of public health surveillance at various levels of influence. They aim to further develop the idea of translating research into practice by …
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Strengthening higher education for displaced students from Burma in Thailand: identifying collective interest and expanding value across diverse stakeholders
<p>The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) lists three “durable” pathways for displaced persons to address global displacement: “voluntary repatriation,” “local integration” into the initial host community, or third-country “resettlement.” At present, 78% of refugees displaced …