Doctoral Dissertation Research: Civic engagement and schooling for resettled communities

难民青年学校在促进过渡和融入东道国社会方面发挥着至关重要的作用。这个博士论文研究项目调查的作用，重新安置学校和难民和重新安置的学生的社会和公民网络发挥青年融入东道国社会。通过研究的影响，网络和学生在国家政策的背景下重新安置学校的成果，这个博士研究项目推进跨国教育政策的难民青年的科学知识。该研究开发了一个社会网络模型，适用于其他研究移民和难民的学校教育。在全球难民学生中学入学率下降的背景下，一个经过科学检验的模型解决了全球流离失所青年的教育和融入需求。调查结果将在学术和非学术环境中传播给当地利益攸关方。除了训练研究生的经验数据收集和分析的方法，研究从事历史上代表性不足的群体在科学到研究设计。 为了衡量安置学校的教学法和课程对安置青年的社交网络和公民实践的影响，研究人员将使用定性研究方法和社会网络分析。研究方法包括参与观察、访谈、话语分析和档案分析。具体而言，研究确定了公民的做法和文化战略，由学生开发的是最有效的同化及其对政府结构和教育计划的影响。文化和社会因素对正规难民和移民学校环境的影响的研究有助于教育人类学、移民和难民研究以及教育政策。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Schools for refugee youth play a vital role in facilitating the transition and assimilation into host societies. This doctoral dissertation research project investigates the role that resettlement schools and the social and civic networks of refugee and resettled students play in the integration of youth into host societies. By examining the impacts, networks, and outcomes of students in resettlement schools within the context of state policy, this doctoral research project advances scientific knowledge of transnational educational policy for refugee youth. The research develops a social network model adaptable to other studies on migrant and refugee schooling. In the context of dropping secondary school enrollment rates of refugee students globally, a scientifically tested model addresses the education and integration needs of displaced youth worldwide. Findings will be disseminated to local stakeholders in both academic and non-academic settings. In addition to training a graduate student in the methods of empirical data collection and analysis, the research engages a historically underrepresented group in science into the research design. To measure the effects of resettlement school pedagogy and curriculum on social networks and civic practices of resettled youth the researchers will use qualitative research methods and social network analysis. Research methods for the project include participant observation, interviews, discourse analysis, and archival analysis. Specifically, the research identifies the civic practices and cultural strategies developed by students that are most effective for assimilation and their impacts on government structures and educational programs. The examination of the effects of cultural and social factors on formal refugee and migrant schooling environments contributes to the anthropology of education, migration and refugee studies, and educational policy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.