PinnedIncluding Ukrainian refugees in EU secondary school systems and classrooms –what to do about language when the kids just don’t speak it (especially when our students have exams)?Over the past few weeks around 5 million Ukrainians have crossed the border from their own country into the European Union. Many of whom are children and students. …Refugees6 min readRefugees6 min read
Feb 3, 2021Education in Europe after the pandemicBetween opportunities and divides This article was first published in the Progressive 2020 Yearbook by the FEPS Foundation for European Progressive Studies…A big thanks to Dr. Michalis Kakos and Giuseppina Tucci for their contributions. Predictions in education are hard to make because the educational fi eld is exposed to forceful influences such as public…Covid 195 min readCovid 195 min read
May 4, 2020Time to reflect or time to act? How to respond to the Covid-19 situation concerning our education systemsI sat on a conference call recently with educational policy-makers, researchers and migrant-led organisations. Heroes, many of them are, in responding to the Covid-19 situation around them by providing pedagogical and emotional support lines for teachers, direct support to migrant parents and students and still fending for themselves during this…Covid 192 min readCovid 192 min read
Apr 3, 2020Building Back Better — Schools and Education Systems…given that we’re all educators here…let’s take a growth-mindset to this? In these strange times, we are re-calibrating our lives to continue our children’s formal schooling either at home or in online groups. …Covid 198 min readCovid 198 min read
Sep 24, 2019Moving to an asset-based approach to educating refugees in EuropeMoving to an asset-based approach to educating refugees in Europe I vividly remember walking into my 4 year-old son’s classroom one morning, around a month after he started at a new school and witnessing a conversation between the teacher and the father of his classmate. His classmate had started around…Education5 min readEducation5 min read
Sep 9, 2019Teaching about Refugees todayTeaching about Refugees in Western Europe — Findings from 2016 “The parents of non-refugee children sometimes need to be convinced that refugee children are not a dangerous or negative influence on their children.” Austrian teacher survey respondent [UNHCR PädagogInnen Umfrage zu Unterrichtsmaterialien 2016] Right now, our children are sitting next…Refugees4 min readRefugees4 min read
