'The students do not know why they are here': education decision-making for Syrian refugees. (8th August 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Karam, Fares J.; Monaghan, Christine; Yoder, Paul J.
• Is Part Of: Globalisation, societies and education. Volume 15:Number 4(2017)
• Page Start: 448
• Page End: 463
• Publication Date: 2017-08-08
• Subjects: Education in emergencies -- refugee education -- global education policy -- globalisation -- schooling and migration; Globalization -- Periodicals; Globalization -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Education -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Education -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; Education and state -- Periodicals; Educational sociology -- Periodicals; International education -- Periodicals; 379
• DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2016.1222895
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1476-7724

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This case study, conducted collaboratively between education scholars and education practitioners, describes and analyses the ways in which Syrian refugee teachers and an NGO are developing and implementing non-formal education (NFE) programming in three refugee settlements in Lebanon. Utilising the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, we analyse teachers' and programme administrators' decision-making processes regarding curriculum, language of instruction, and pedagogy as well as how and why these decisions are made in the absence of a guiding framework or policy for NFE. We also consider the ways in which the nation-state writ large still helps to influence these decisions in the 'global era'.