This book foregrounds silenced voices by correlating refugee experiences with educational practices, while questioning how we address the educational rights of individuals affected by conflicts and wars. Accordingly, the book presents a novel perspective within the field of education. Within the context of the most prevalent educational instruments, textbooks, this work endeavors to highlight the muted perspectives of immigrants in education and make significant advances towards resolving this problem. Through extensive research and analysis of the relevant literature, the authors shed light on the challenges refugee students face in their educational trajectories and offer innovative suggestions for adopting more equitable and inclusive approaches within our educational systems.
The book not only addresses an educational dilemma, but also emphasizes humanity's shared responsibility. Supporting the educational rights of refugees promotes not only their personal growth, but also more tolerant, compassionate, and sustainable societies. At the same time, this work promotes a critical comprehension of refugee experiences in education by presenting both problems and solutions to the readership. In this way, it demonstrates how a more equitable and egalitarian approach to education can be adopted and it ultimately encourages readers to adopt a broader perspective on the world, embracing humanitarian values and social responsibility.
Menşure Alkış Küçükaydın, is an Associate Professor of Primary Education at Necmettin Erbakan University in Konya, Turkey. She received her undergraduate degree in Department of Primary Teacher Education from Gazi University, Faculty of Education in 2006. She received her Ph.D degrees in Department of Primary Teacher Education from Gazi University in 2017. Dr. Küçükaydın's scholarly work focuses on pedagogical content knowledge, the roles of educational technology in learners' scientific practices, textbook review, refugee in children's books and view of refugees. Dr. Küçükaydın has 15 books that are edited by her at national level. In addition, she has a book, a number of book chapters, articles, papers and projects related to her study field.
Hakan Ulum is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classroom Teaching, Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey. He worked as a classroom teacher invarious regions in Turkey, still working as an academician. He has many international studies in the field of basic education Mathematics. As an Academician, he actively participates in research projects and attends international research conferences as a presenter. His research areas cover Math Education, Textbooks, Meta-Analysis and Research Methods.
Ömer Gökhan Ulum is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language Teaching, Mersin University, Turkey. He worked as an Academician at different universities in Turkey. Further, he was appointed as a Language Assistant at Moseley College in Birmingham, UK. As an Academician, he actively participates in research projects and attends international research conferences as a presenter. His research areas cover Language Ideology, Language Imperialism, Cultural Hegemony, Discourse, Pragmatics, and Research Methods.
