Unravelling the enduring aspiration-attainment gap: Immigration, Syrian refugee students and education (original) (raw)

Migration in Turkey: Policies, reactions, discussions, 2020

Abstract

As an offspring of a large refugee influx from Syria, it is reported that Turkey has received more than 2.5 million refugees within the 2011- 2015 quadrennium (Bağır, 2018). However, Syrian refugees have faced with financial, institutional, linguistic and social obstacles and/or barriers in their daily life practices. The case for Syrian refugee students is rather pathetic due to no prior, or interrupted formal education. Besides, there is a scarcity of qualified and trained teachers, adequate number of resources, and appropriate curriculum designed for Syrian refugee students, which may impede education (Aydin & Kaya, 2017). Therefore, taking immigration as a focal point, this chapter provides insights and perspectives from the educational praxis, and challenges faced by the Syrian refugee students at Turkish schools. Herewith, it is also described how Education in Emergencies (EiE) may function as a developmental approach for closing aspiration-attainment gap, and as an agentive response to the existing incongruity between educational policy planning and implementation.

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