Refugee Education, Building Durable Futures: Syrian Refugee Students in Lebanon, 2018-2019

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Vidur Chopra, Independent Researcher; Joumana Talhouk, University of Oxford; Carmen Geha, Pompeu Fabra University

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Project Citation:

Dryden-Peterson, Sarah, Chopra, Vidur, Talhouk, Joumana, and Geha, Carmen. Refugee Education, Building Durable Futures: Syrian Refugee Students in Lebanon, 2018-2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-12-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E195747V1

Project Description

Summary: There is a gap between futures refugee young people imagine will be possible through their education and plausible futures in exile, where opportunities are truncated by social, economic, and political exclusions. Our study examines how education can narrow this gap. Through interviews with Syrian students in Lebanon, we document fixed and malleable elements of education that refugee students identify as bridging their current education and their futures. Students experience structures and content of schooling in Lebanon as both exclusionary and immutable, yet their teachers use what we call relational pedagogies rooted in predictability, explaining, fairness, and care to support students’ learning and navigation toward future opportunities. While our research focuses on refugees, it has conceptual implications for educators and school systems in other settings where teachers support their marginalized students to make sense of disconnects between what they imagine is possible through school and their future opportunities.

Funding Sources: Research Council of Norway (274650); Cheng Yu Yung Education Innovation Research Fund

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: migration; comparative education; refugee education; teacher education; interviews

Geographic Coverage: Lebanon, Syria

Time Period(s): 10/2018 – 5/2019

Collection Date(s): 10/2018 – 5/2019

Universe: Syrian Grade 9 students living and going to school in Lebanon.

Data Type(s): other

Collection Notes: In the attached file, we first describe the larger project in terms of overall research approach and then focus on the interviews with students, as these interviews are the source of data for the analysis in this publication. Please be in touch if you would like more information on the classroom and school observations, teacher interviews, and parent interviews. Given the nature of the data, we are unable to share the interview data to protect the privacy of research participants (Harvard University IRB18-1676). Please be in touch if you have questions about the data or access to it.

Methodology

Response Rate: This study draws on interview data. See attached document.

Sampling: This study draws on interview data. See attached document.

Data Source: This study draws on interview data. See attached document.

Collection Mode(s): face-to-face interview

Scales: Not applicable.

Weights: Not applicable.

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