ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the main challenges for refugee students and for school leaders and teachers within the current complex reality. It describes some coping strategies that school leaders and teachers employ, often improvising to maintain the schools' academic, pedagogical and administrative functioning, exemplified by cases from different countries. In the attempt to allow refugee children to build a new future, the host country's school leaders and teachers and the refugee children face diverse challenges that are strongly influenced by the political, social and economic context of those countries. These challenges also pose dilemmas for the host society and its educators, in their attempts to provide appropriate education for the refugee students. In general, it appears that the refugee students encounter three major barriers to their continued education: financial, structural/cultural, and psychological and mental health issues.
