ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses literature that attempts to cope with refugee education in schools and educational models that have been constructed to describe these processes in recent years. Main conceptual approaches utilized in the refugee education field include the Humanitarian Approach, the Human Rights Approach and the Developmental Approach. The review of the studied literature revealed that current research in the field of refugee education most frequently tackles topic areas suggested by these three approaches. A further conclusion from the review is that most frequently, research focuses on optimal practices, exemplary implementations or proposed models in refugee education at the micro-level while focusing especially on policy-level challenges. The 2019 report also concludes that “migration and displacement are a test case for international cooperation – and for the role of education”. Research literature and the reports of different organizations emphasize the difficulty of the refugees' missed school years and limitations to their access to education in host states.
