“I defeat those fears and start a new life”: Iraqi refugee students’ PTSD, wisdom, and resilience.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeyoung Bang ◽  
Bruce Collet
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Students ◽  
Iraqi Refugee ◽  
Iraqi Refugee Students

Educational gaps and their impact on Iraqi refugee students’ secondary schooling in the Greater Detroit, Michigan Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeyoung Bang ◽  
Bruce A Collet
Keyword(s):  
School Adjustment ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Refugee Students ◽  
Secondary Schooling ◽  
Transitional Countries ◽  
Residency Restrictions ◽  
Iraqi Refugee ◽  
Iraqi Refugee Students ◽  
Educational Gaps

In this piece we examine educational gaps among Iraqi refugee students while living in Iraq and while in transitional countries, challenges resulting from those educational gaps since they have arrived in the United States, and Iraqi students’ needs to overcome their challenges for school adjustment. Thirty Chaldean Iraqi refugees who attended various high schools in the greater Detroit area, their parents, and their teachers participated in interviews and focus groups. Educational gaps in Iraq are due to precarious conditions involved in access to schooling, and threats and dangers experienced as Chaldean religious minorities. Gaps in transitional countries are due to lack of access to schooling due to residency restrictions, discriminatory treatment, and financial difficulties. Iraqi students are highly anxious about academic failure and their ability to obtain a high school diploma. We recommend educational policies and practices that might best address the serious problem of educational gaps.

scholarly journals INTEGRATING REFUGEES INTO SOCIETY AND EDUCATION THROUGH LANGUAGE TRAINING: A CASE STUDY IN ORDU, TURKEY

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 097
Author(s):  
Halis Gözpınar
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Refugee Students ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Reference Guide ◽  
The Core ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Iraqi Refugee ◽  
Iraqi Refugee Students

This paper approaches addressing the linguistic needs of Iraqi refugee students living in Turkey.  Having a command of Turkish and English will allow them to feel more self-confident, more easily establish communication with their peers, receive a better education, have broader employment opportunities, and eventually earn a better income. Language will also help remove the distance between them and society, enable healthy dialogue, and speed up their process of social integration. Turkey is trying to find solutions to this language and social barrier. The core of this research is comprised of eighty-three Iraqi refugee students receiving education at a middle as well as high school in the province of Ordu. The students’ educational progression was evaluated through classroom observation, interviews, e-mails, telephone conversations, face-to-face discussions, family visits, and casual talks with parents, children, youth, and teachers, and then defined as the sample group. The aim of this paper is to show what benefits that the foreign language training we provide has on institutions, communities, and individuals in order to accelerate guest students’ adaptation into the society within which they are living, as well as into education. This paper is also expected to serve as a reference guide for language training programs in especially multicultural environments as is based on the results obtained from our research and experience.  

The Case Study of a Multicultural Classroom Environment: Syrian and Iraqi Refugees

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-99
Author(s):  
İlkay Doğan Taş
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Environment ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Classroom Observations ◽  
Iraqi Refugees ◽  
Teacher Interviews ◽  
Refugee Students ◽  
Multicultural Classroom ◽  
Iraqi Refugee Students ◽  
Education Process

This study aims to determine the positive and/or negative situations and the reactions of the students and teachers to these situations emerged during the education process carried out in a multicultural class with Syrian and Iraqi refugee students. This study is a case study in which the data were collected from classroom observations and teacher interviews. The findings of the study show that the integration of Syrian and Iraqi refugees into Turkish education system is affected both positively and negatively by teachers’ multicultural classroom experiences, students' being in the first grade, learning Turkish as a second language, and the socio-cultural environment.

Systemic and Multisystemic Traumas: Backlash Against Muslim Arab Iraqi Refugee Adolescents

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim A. Kira ◽  
Linda Lewandowski ◽  
Vidya Ramsawamy
Keyword(s):  
Iraqi Refugee

Immigrant and Refugee Students in U.S. Schools

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Birman ◽  
Nellie Tran ◽  
Winnie Chan
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Students ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee

Using a Culturally Proficient Leadership Lens to Effectively Serve Refugee Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 155545892110124
Author(s):  
Corinne Brion
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Cultural Proficiency ◽  
Severe Trauma ◽  
Refugee Students ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Culturally Proficient Leadership ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Culturally Proficient

This teaching case study takes place in an American middle school and tells the story of Dorah, a refugee student from the Republic of Congo who experienced severe trauma. At Lincoln Middle School, the principal and her teachers encounter difficulties serving their refugee students adequately because of their lack of cultural proficiency. This case aims to help leaders in diverse contexts understand how to embrace and advocate for different cultures, beliefs, and norms to increase the cultural wealth of their communities. To achieve this goal, I provide a cultural proficiency model and a trauma-invested framework.

Excavating the Layers of Trauma in Homelands and Hostlands: Supporting Political Refugees in U.S. Schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 155545892199751
Author(s):  
Mehtap Akay ◽  
Reva Jaffe-Walter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Home Country ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Refugee Students ◽  
Political Refugees ◽  
Language And Education ◽  
Insight Into

This article details how a newly arrived Turkish refugee student navigates schooling in the United States. It highlights the trauma a purged Turkish families experience in their home country and their challenges as newcomers unfamiliar with their new country’s dominant culture, language, and education system. The case narrative provides insight into how children of Turkish political refugees are often overlooked in the context of U.S. schools, where teachers lack adequate training and supports. By illuminating one refugee family’s experiences in U.S. schools, the case calls for leaders to develop holistic supports and teacher education focused on the needs of refugee students.

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