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Ruano, Bruna; Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia – Intercultural Education, 2023
This paper reflects on the problems faced by refugee students during the COVID-19 pandemic (summer semester 2020) as "calouros," i.e. freshmen during their first year, in a public university in Brazil. Through a content analysis of their personal accounts, collected electronically by their teacher of Portuguese for academic purposes (the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Foreign Students, Learning
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Streets, Barbara Faye; Nicolas, Guerda; Wolford, Karen – International Research and Review, 2015
International service learning courses, cultural immersion projects, and international disaster response teams have provided valuable aid, services, supplies and programs to trauma-impacted communities across the globe. Many colleges and universities support global learning and the creation of global citizens, and this ethic is reflected in many…
Descriptors: Trauma, Attribution Theory, Motivation, Technical Assistance
Vallas, Paul – Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2014
In this essay, Paul Vallas--education reform expert and key advisor to the government of Haiti in developing its national education plan--discusses his plan for Haiti. The paper explores the successes and challenges of education reform in Haiti, before and after the earthquake that devastated the nation in 2010. The essay describes the…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Foreign Countries, Emergency Programs, Educational Planning