ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the provision of education to refugee children. It begins with a brief overview of the broad policy context including the worldwide ‘Education for All’ declaration. Two brief ‘case studies’ are then presented, one drawing on research into the education of Palestinian children in a refugee camp in Jordan and another offering an overview of educational development in one major refugee-producing country. These provide a background to an examination of the contemporary theory, policy and practice towards refugee children in industrialised countries. Particular attention is paid here to work on social capital, in recognition of its contemporary influence on both research and policy in the educational and immigration spheres. The chapter also addresses some of the tensions that may exist between approaches and resources linked to settled minority ethnic groups and recently arriving refugee children through the evocation of the concept of the ‘limited good’.
