[Announcement from SCRA-L]
Dear All,
Please see announcement below on a special issue for the journal I
edit, and please circulate widely!
Dina
Birman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor| Educational and Psychological Studies
Director| Community Well-Being PhD Program
School
of Education and Human Development | University of Miami
5202
University Drive | MB 311-A| Coral Gables, FL 33146
Editor, International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Special Issue: Cultural and Academic Adjustment of Refugee
Youth
in
Educational Settings
International Journal of Intercultural Relations
According to United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are over 10 million refugees spread
around the world living in varying conditions including refugee camps,
temporary shelters, and permanent resettlement in other countries. The United Nations has specified in conventions, and researchers
have concurred, that education is essential for refugee children’s social,
psychosocial, and economic adjustment. However, in temporary
spaces of refuge access to education is limited and generally of a low quality,
with inadequate resources (Dryden-Peterson, 2011). Research suggests that refugee students continue
to experience challenges in countries of resettlement (McBrien, 2005), and
those with interrupted or no prior formal education are particularly at risk
(Dooley, 2009).
The International Journal of
Intercultural Relations (IJIR) is
soliciting manuscripts for a special issue on the Cultural
and Academic Adjustment of Refugee Youth in Educational
Settings. The issue is intended to look at challenges and effective
practices in various countries of temporary asylum and permanent resettlement
of refugee youth. The editors hope to receive submissions that report on
empirical work on refugee students at all levels of education: primary,
secondary, and higher education; formal, informal, and non-formal (Brock,
2011); and in diverse national contexts.
We welcome methodological approaches that rely on quantitative,
qualitative, and/or participatory methods.
Potential papers could examine questions including (but not
limited to) the following:
w How do refugee students negotiate meaning and belonging as they
move from first-third spaces of residence?
w In what ways have teachers negotiated the space between homeland
and resettlement to help refugee students gain a sense of belonging?
w Factors that influence refugee student adjustment to and
integration in school, including
·
Cultural
factors as involved in acculturation, cultural differences in educational
practices, teacher attitudes and expectations, parent-school relationships,
etc.;
·
Educational and
other policies at the national, regional, and local levels that influence
education of refugee students such as high stakes testing;
·
School level
policies and programs aimed at refugee children involving classroom
organization and placement, transitional language or newcomer programs;
·
Other supports
effective at helping refugee students move from one culture to another to
succeed educationally.
w Psychosocial adjustment of refugee students at school and their
coping with acculturative stress and trauma.
w School-based interventions that address refugee students’
psychological, social, or educational needs
The special issue will be edited by Guest Editors Jody L McBrien,
Associate Professor of Education at the University of South Florida,
Sarasota-Manatee, USA; Karen Dooley, Associate Professor of Education at
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; and Dina
Birman, IJIR Editor in Chief,
Associate Professor of Education at the University of Miami, USA.
Abstracts of 300-500 words are requested by August 10, 2015. Be
sure to include your research question and its significance. Remark on your
theoretical framework, methods, findings, and conclusions. Please send your
abstract to Jody McBrien (jlmcbrien@sar.usf.edu) or Karen Dooley (k.dooley@qut.edu.au). If you submit an
abstract that is accepted, we expect that a completed manuscript can be sent no
later than February 1, 2016. Those who submit an abstract will be notified no
later than September 15, 2015, on whether or not the journal would like a
completed manuscript.
Jody
L McBrien
Karen
Dooley
Dina
Birman
Brock, C. (2011). Education as a global concern.
Bloomsbury Publishing.
Dooley, K (2009). Re-thinking
pedagogy for middle school students with little, no or severely interrupted
schooling. English Teaching: Practice and
Critique, 8(1), pp. 5-22.
McBrien,
J. L. (2005). Educational needs and barriers for refugee students in the United
States: A review of the literature. Review
of Educational Research, 75(3), 329-364.
