(Hardcover - English - 9780674267992)
A leading expert shows how, by learning from refugee teachers and students, we can create for displaced children--and indeed all children--better schooling and brighter futures. Half of the world's 26 million refugees are children. Their formal education is disrupted, and their lives are too often dominated by exclusion and uncertainty about what the future holds. Even kids who have the opportunity to attend school face enormous challenges, as they struggle to integrate into unfamiliar societies and educational environments. In Right Where We Belong , Sarah Dryden-Peterson discovers that, where governments and international agencies have been stymied, refugee ..