Right where we belong : how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education /

Dryden-Peterson, Sarah,

Right where we belong : how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education / Sarah Dryden-Peterson. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022. - 260 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: Our futures -- Teacher, Kampala, Uganda. August 2005 -- Sanctuary, Kampala, Uganda. March 2003 -- Power, Bujumbura, Burundi. December 2013 -- Purpose, Cairo, Egypt. July 2014 -- Learning, Cape Town, South Africa. August 2002 -- Belonging, Dadaab, Kenya. July 2013 -- Epilogue: Home, Ottawa, Canada. March 2012.

"In Right Where We Belong, Sarah Dryden-Peterson argues that, although refugees face formidable obstacles in securing educations, there is good reason to have hope. Refugee teachers and students themselves, she reveals, are leading the way. Drawing upon fifteen years of fieldwork and more than 600 interviews in 23 countries, Dryden-Peterson shows that, from open-air classrooms in refugee camps in Uganda to the hallways of high schools in Maine, a new vision for refugee education is emerging"--

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Refugee children--Education.
Refugees--Education.
Educational innovations.
Teacher-student relationships.

LC3663 / .D78 2022

371.826/914