Language, Teaching and Pedagogy for Refugee Education

Enakshi Sengupta is the Dean, College of Business at the American University of Kurdistan, Iraq. She is the Senior Editor of the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education (Emeral) and serves as the Vice Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Innovation in Higher Education Teaching and Learning book series.Patrick Blessinger is the founder, executive director, and chief research scientist of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) and an adjunct associate professor in the School of Education at St. John's University, USA. Dr. Blessinger is the editor-in-chief of two international academic journals and two international book series on higher education.

"The challenges to providing quality school and university education to refugees are complex and call for innovative yet cultural specific approaches. The contributors to Refugee Education: Language Teaching and Pedagogy have presented successful approaches to schooling, higher education and settlement that would enable refugees to assimilate into their new surroundings."

• Part I: Seeking Higher Education 1. Introduction to Language, Teaching and Pedagogy for Refugee Education; Enakshi Sengupta and Patrick Blessinger 2. Conceptualising Higher Education Aspirations Formation Among Marginalised Migrant Youth in Johannesburg, South Africa; Faith Mkwananzi and Merridy Wilson-Strydom 3. Occupation-based Didatic Model for English Language Teaching to Refugees to Improve their Sustainability and Social Integration; Haydeé Ramírez Lozada 4. Postsecondary Education and the Full Integration of Government Assisted Refugees in Canada: A Direction for Program Innovation; Donald Reddick and Lisa Saddler 5. Literary Instruction Without Borders: Ideas for Developing Best-Practices for Reading Programs in Refugee Settings; Matt Thomas, Yuankun Yao, Katherine Landau Wright and Elizabeth Rutten-Turner 6. Start Ins Deutsche - Students Teach German to Refugees at Goethe University Frankfurt; Marika Gereke and Subin Nijhawan Part II: Technology and Higher Education 7. Refugees, Education and Disability: Addressing the Educational Needs of Arabic-Speaking Refugees with Learning Challenges; David Banes, Carine Allaf and Maggie Mitchell Salem 8. Adaptation of Conventional Technologies with Refugee Language Learners: An Overview of Possibilities; Heather Smyser 9. How Social Media Can Play a Role in an Education Context, in an Informal Refugee Camp in Europe; Kathy O' Hare10. Reaching Refugees: Southern New Hampshire University's Project-Based Degree Model for Refugee Higher Education; Chrystina Russell and Nina Weaver11. Creating a Borderless World of Education for Refugees; Enakshi Sengupta, Shai Reshef and Patrick Blessinger