Pedagogies of Belonging: Educators Building Welcoming Communities in Settings of Conflict and Migration

Resource | Pedagogies of Belonging: Educators Building Welcoming Communities in Settings of Conflict & Migration is a book is about educators, and for educators, and the practices they have developed to create welcoming communities in settings of migration. Each page of the book is a “microportrait” of one educator who we have come to know by spending time in their classroom and school. We learn from educators how they build welcoming communities, how they create space for dissent, for dialogue, for trust, for new identities, for future-building, and how they envision and build newly imagined communities.

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Cultivating Trust: How Educators Can Build Relationships with their Afghan Refugee Students

Resource | This new resource is for educators who seek to know about their Afghan students’ experiences to better support them. The resource highlights three central elements that can cultivate trust: Safe classrooms, Community connections, and Quality learning. It ends with suggested questions for educators to facilitate conversations about each of the three elements of trust with students, families, and community leaders.

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نشعر بكم: ما يتمنّى الطلاب اللاجئون السوريون أن يعرفه أساتذتهم

Video | New animation and research by the Refugee REACH team examines pedagogies of care and belonging in refugee contexts. Research included 8 months of observations in public and private schools in Lebanon and over 100 hours of interviews with Syrian Grade 9 students, their teachers, and families.

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Toward Cognitive and Temporal Mobility: Language Considerations in Refugee Education

Article | Refugee REACH director Sarah Dryden-Peterson discusses two mobilities that emerge through her team’s work on refugee education: cognitive mobility and temporal mobility. These have broad relevance for what, how, and why children and young people learn, including as related to language in education.

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