Education of Syrian Refugee Children: Managing the Crisis in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan

Shelly Culbertson ; Louay Constant

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: Children;    Syria;    Turkey;    Forced Migration;    Education Policy;    Disadvantaged Students;    Lebanon;    Refugees;    Jordan;   

DOI  :  10.7249/RR859
ISBN  :  9780833092397
RP-ID  :  RR-859-CMEPP

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

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 reviews Syrian refugee education for children 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.