Digital Approaches to Promoting Integration in Higher Education: Opening Universities for Refugees (SpringerBriefs in Education)

✍ Scribed by Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia (editor), Sarah Nell-Müller (editor), Roland Happ (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 133
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book discusses digital learning opportunities in higher education for refugees with different educational, social, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Based on findings from practical studies and research projects from several countries, the book highlights the numerous challenges when it comes to the successful integration of refugees into higher education. These challenges arise at both the individual and the institutional level. The contributions included in this book show how these challenges can be effectively met using digital teaching-learning platforms. The work thus offers a comprehensive insight into the opportunities online-based learning platforms offer regarding the successful integration of refugees into higher education

Overall, the research presented in this volume is relevant for political stakeholders, university practitioners in the field of migration research, university research, and online and digital learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1 Digital Approaches to Integrating Refugees into Higher Education—Frontiers and Advances
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Focus and Structure of This Volume
1.2.1 Research Focus
1.2.2 Framework for the Contributions
References
Part I Institutional and Individual Study-Related Challenges for Refugees: International Experiences
2 Rebuilding Sustainable Communities Through Higher Education in Emergencies
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Building a Theory of Change—Reverse Engineering Impact
2.3 Operationalizing the Vision
2.4 Rebuilding and Improving Sustainable Communities
References
3 Learning with and from People Living in Displacement: The Promise of Borderless Higher Education
3.1 Background
3.1.1 Higher Education for Refugees?—Frontiers and Advances
3.1.2 Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER)
3.2 Practical Experience
3.3 Conclusion
References
4 Experiences of Refugees When Entering Higher Education and Over the Course of Their Studies: A Literature Review of Structural and Personal Challenges
4.1 Relevance
4.2 Aim, Scope and Focus of the Literature Review
4.3 Conceptual Foundation
4.3.1 Definition of the Refugee Group
4.3.2 Research Objective
4.3.3 Search Strategy
4.3.4 Study Selection
4.3.5 Group Structure: Origin and Gender
4.3.6 An Analytical Framework for the Evaluation of Studies
4.4 Results
4.4.1 Systemic and Structural Challenges
4.4.2 Personal Challenges
4.4.3 Experiences of Students
4.4.4 Incentives to Take up a Course of Study
4.5 Discussion
4.6 Limitations and Implications
4.7 Appendix
References
Part II Insights From the Success Project and Practical Implications
5 Study Success and Opportunities for Refugees in Higher Education – an Effectiveness Analysis
5.1 Relevance
5.1.1 State of Research from Studies with Comparison Groups
5.1.2 Specific Study-Related Difficulties among Refugees
5.1.3 University Offers for Students with a Refugee Background
5.2 The SUCCESS Project
5.3 Study Design
5.4 Test Instruments
5.5 Results
5.6 Discussion
References
6 Refugees’ Pathways to Higher Education—Digital Support Between Intentions and Realities
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Literature Review
6.3 Research Context and Design
6.3.1 Research Design and Methods
6.3.2 Data
6.4 Results
6.4.1 Starting a New Life
6.4.2 The Rocky Road to University
6.4.3 Almost There
6.5 Discussion
6.5.1 Academic Integration
6.5.2 Social Integration
6.5.3 Institutional Integration
6.5.4 Legal Structures
6.6 Conclusion
References
7 Identification of Vulnerable Groups in Terms of Language Proficiency in Higher Education
7.1 Background and Research Focus
7.2 Assessments of Language Proficiency
7.2.1 Test Instruments
7.2.2 Transformation of the Tests to a Common Metric
7.2.3 Transformation of the C-Test and TestDaF
7.3 Samples
7.3.1 Students with a Refugee Background at Kiron
7.3.2 Native and Non-Native German Speakers at German Universities
7.4 Analysis
7.4.1 Method
7.4.2 Results
7.5 Discussion and Limitations
References