Research article: how COVID-19 school closures affected teachers’ care for migrant and refugee youth in Denmark
Teachers play a critical role in providing psychosocial support for newly arrived migrant and refugee learners. Such care ordinarily takes place in the classroom, raising questions about the impact of the 2020 COVID-19 school closures on teachers’ care work. In this article, RWS researchers draw on qualitative interviews with teachers in Danish preparatory classes to […]
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Local dissemination in Finland
In November 2022, Kirsi Peltonen presented the results of the RWS-study in the Finnish research seminar of Multidisciplinary Violence Research, organised by the Institute of Health and Welfare, and in the National Congress for Psychiatrists. Over 500 researchers and practitioners participated in these events and the theme of mental health of refugee children raised multiple […]
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Training on psychosocial wellbeing of refugee children
On Friday April 22nd 2022, RWS coordinator Ilse Derluyn has given a training for teachers and school staff from across Europe as part of the activities of the Teacher Academy. Watch the training here.
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Support for young Ukrainian refugees: NKVTS initiatives
Members of the Norwegian RefugeesWellSchool team at the National Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) have introduced RWS and its interventions in a number of seminars, webinars and conferences targeting national, municipal and county level education authorities, alongside primary and secondary school educators and administrators. This included events organized by The National Centre […]
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Support for young Ukrainian refugees by RWS
Since February 2022, many European countries are setting up care and support systems for the Ukrainian refugees. Also schools across Europe are setting up additional and specific measures to support the young Ukrainian refugees. The RefugeesWellSchool consortium has informed and supported several schools, policy-makers and governments regarding the implementation of psychosocial interventions for young refugees […]
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Research article: how COVID-19 school closures affected teachers’ care for migrant and refugee youth in Denmark
Teachers play a critical role in providing psychosocial support for newly arrived migrant and refugee learners. Such care ordinarily takes place in the classroom, raising questions about the impact of the 2020 COVID-19 school closures on teachers’ care work. In this article, RWS researchers draw on qualitative interviews with teachers in Danish preparatory classes to […]
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Research article: on the role of time and space in migrant and refugee adolescents’ caring practices in Danish schools
Given that schools are promising spaces for supporting newcomer refugee and migrant learners psychosocially, the Danish RWS team was curious to understand what role young newcomers themselves play in relation to each other’s well-being. Drawing on an ethnographic approach, this article shows how refugee and immigrant adolescents in two preparatory classes in Denmark develop their […]
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Research article: Teachers’ caring practices for migrant and refugee youth in Denmark
In this article, researchers from the Danish RWS team examines qualitatively how teachers of preparatory classes in Danish public schools approach and respond to the care needs of newcomer migrant and refugee learners. We show how teachers care for newcomers and how their care responses are both determined bythe external support available and teachers’ individual […]
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PhD of Anne Sofie Børsch “Care in classrooms for newcomers”
On September 16th at 1pm, Anne Sofie Børsch will defend her PhD, entitle “Care in classrooms for newcomers: a comparative ethnographic case study of social practices to support learners’ well-being in two classrooms for newly arrived refugee and immigrant adolescents in Denmark“. Anne Sofie’s PhD thesis examines the role of schools in supporting the psychosocial well-being […]
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PhD of Emma Soye “Difference and encounter”
Recently, Emma Soye successfully defended her PhD at the University of Sussex, guided by her promotor Prof. dr. Charles Watters. Her PhD, entitled “Difference and encounter: Psychosocial support and secondary education for young migrants and refugees in the UK“, draws on the work Emma did within RefugeesWellSchool, but also critically looks at ‘integrationist’ framework RWS […]
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Short videos explaining our interventions
Watch our new videos explaining the different interventions we developed and implemented in the RefugeesWellSchool project! Classroom Drama Therapy: Caroline Spaas from KULeuven in Belgium presents the Classroom Drama Intervention that was implemented in the framework of the EU-H2020 project RefugeesWellSchool: click here PIER: Emma Soya and Prof Charles Watters, both from the University of […]
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National publication in professional-oriented journal Welwijs, on the intersection of education and well-being
The Belgian team is proud to announce a national publication in the professional-oriented, Belgian journal Welwijs. As a journal, Welwijs aims to support bridges between the fields of education and mental health care. As our RWS project is located at this particular intersection of education, well-being and mental health, Welwijs’ editors invited the Belgian team […]