Refugee education: co-designing an inclusive model for practitioners and policymakers

At this session, Jo and Catherine will explore the synergies in their approaches and describe how they are intending to work together to support schools and to inform policymaking to operationalise an inclusive model of education for refugee students now and in anticipation of further crises.

The presentation will begin with an overview of Jo’s research in Sweden and England and which was then developed in Jo’s recent co-authored book Refugee Education: Theorising Practice in Schools. In the book, Jo describes the ways in which she worked with teachers and school leaders in case study schools in England to co-design a model of inclusive education for refugee and asylum-seeking students based on the concepts of safety, belonging and succeeding.

Catherine will then describe the work of Refugee Education UK focusing on the charity’s recent activity to support schools seeking an inclusive approach in response to Afghan children and families seeking refuge in England from the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan.

This event will be particularly useful for those interested in refugee education.

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• Refugee Education UK - Afghan children emergency response
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