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Hoping against the Odds: Understanding Refugee Youths' Aspirations for Gaining Overseas Scholarships
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Direct linkHassan Aden – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2023
Why do young refugees in the Dadaab camps in Kenya aspire to gain resettlement-based scholarships for tertiary education when the odds of getting them are minimal? The existing literature sheds light on the strong educational aspirations of refugee youth. However, our understanding is obscure of why they persistently pursue lofty educational goals…
Descriptors: Refugees, Scholarships, Postsecondary Education, Foreign Countries
Mutongi, Kenda – History of Education Quarterly, 2023
This article argues that the "airlift" language often used to describe the eight hundred Kenyan students who attended US and Canadian universities between 1959 and 1963 is misleading. It assumes that the students were being plucked out of substandard education, yet these youth had received some of the most rigorous education in the…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Educational History, Advantaged, Colonialism
Download full textNdeke, Grace C. W.; Barmao, Anne C. – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
This paper reports the results of a study that investigated secondary school learners' perceptions of the influence of their science and mathematics teachers' nonverbal communication on their aspirations to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related courses in institutions of higher learning. The study further…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Influence, Nonverbal Communication, Academic Aspiration
Mills, Alicia – Comparative Education, 2023
This article explores a number of themes concerning the way in which education discourses position, problematise and respond to pregnant and parenting girls. Much of the literature centres on a discourse which celebrates a certain type of parenting girl, who returns to school thanks to determination and a silencing of other identities. This idea…
Descriptors: Females, Inclusion, Parent Child Relationship, Pregnancy
Sahra Ahmed – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In this qualitative study, I investigated the ways in which refugee youth in Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwestern Kenya perceive the extent to which the camp schools have provided them with educational capabilities that can enable them to reach their aspirations and goals, within the difficult conditions under which they live and learn about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Role of Education, Emergency Shelters
Kennedy Karani Onyiko; Justine Amadi Orucho; Lawrence Asige; Dennis Omuse Obushe; Aden Ang'aba Esokomi; Faith Inyele Olita; Simon Kitiyo – Journal of Youth Development, 2024
The youth population bulge in Kenya comes with so many challenges such as poverty, gender inequalities, political inequities, the absence of adequate health and medical resources, low educational attainment, homelessness, increased involvement in violence, drugs, and alcohol, poor physical and mental health, a lack of key life skills, premature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Students, Academic Aspiration, Barriers
