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Summary:

With four million Syrian refugees as of September 2015, there is urgent need to develop both short-term and long-term approaches to providing education for the children of this population. This report reviewed Syrian refugee education in the three neighboring countries with the largest population of refugees, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan, and analyzes four areas: access, management, society, and quality. Policy implications include prioritizing the urgent need to increase access to education among refugees; transitioning from a short-term humanitarian response to a longer-term development response; investing in both government capacity to provide education and in formal, quality alternatives to the public school systems; improving data in support of decisionmaking; developing a deliberative strategy about how to integrate or separate Syrian and host-country children in schools to promote social cohesion; limiting child labor and enabling education by creating employment policies for adults; and implementing particular steps to improve quality of education for both refugees and citizens.

Table of Contents:

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Figures and Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; Background and Study Objectives; Regional Context and Considerations; Time Frames, Scenarios, and the Politics of Expectations; Study Approach, Limitations, and Organization of the Report; CHAPTER TWO: Access; Access Policies, Data, and Rates for Formal Education; Barriers to Formal Education; Alternative Educational Programs; Policy Considerations; CHAPTER THREE: Management; Roles and Responsibilities; Plans and Budgets; Information for Decisionmakers and Refugees.
• Policy ConsiderationsCHAPTER FOUR: Society; Structure of Refugee Education and Considerations for Social Cohesion; Issues of Certification; The Relation Between Livelihoods and Access to Education; The Classroom as a Protective Environment; Policy Considerations; CHAPTER FIVE: Quality; Quality of Education for Refugees; Quality of Education for Citizens; Policy Considerations; CHAPTER SIX: Conclusion; APPENDIX A: Research Agenda in Support of Syrian Refugee Education; Abbreviations; References.

Author/Creator:

Culbertson, Shelly

Contributors:

Constant, Louay

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Education of Syrian refugee children: managing the crisis in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan [by Culbertson, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Education of Syrian refugee children [by Culbertson, S.] (Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2015 — ISBN 9780833092397; LCCN 2015045283)

Related Series:

Research report (Rand Corporation); RR-859-CMEPP

Subjects:

Refugee children — Education — Middle East

Refugees — Syria

Internally displaced persons — Syria

Refugee children — Government policy — Middle East

Refugee children — Services for — Middle East

Refugee children — Education — Turkey

Refugee children — Education — Lebanon

Refugee children — Education — Jordan

Refugee children — Education

Refugee children

Refugees

Internally displaced persons

Refugee children — Government policy

Refugee children — Services for

Syria

Middle East

Turkey

Lebanon

Jordan

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LC3665.M54 C853 2015eb

ISBNs:

9780833092465 (electronic bk.)
0833092464 (electronic bk.)
9780833092441 [Invalid]
0833092448 [Invalid]
9780833092458 [Invalid]
0833092456 [Invalid]
9780833092397 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
0833092391 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2016005127

OCLC Numbers:

930447407