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The Failure of Educational Norms in the Wake of the Refugee Crisis
The Failure of Educational Norms in the Wake of the Refugee Crisis

Author(s): M. Fatih Esen
Subject(s): Education, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Methodology and research technology, Social development, Migration Studies
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: education; UN charter of Human Rights; Mulla Sadra; refugee crisis; Syrian; Afghan and Turkish children; ‘Khan-methodology’; universalism and education;

Summary/Abstract: Education is considered the fundamental birth right of every child according to the laws introduced by the UN in its ‘universal declaration of human rights’. All the modern nations, the member states of the United Nations respect it. Long before the UN charter, Islamic philosophers also recognized the importance of education in the grooming of human mind for a balanced civilization. However the entire concept of education in its traditional sense seems to be losing its value in our age. With the ongoing refugee crisis, constituting now a major agenda for nations to deal with, providing educational assistance for the people who seek refuge and asylum has become a crisis of unprecedented scale. This present article will attempt to present the current situation of these displaced people and their need for education under such difficult conditions. It will try to provide analysis for the present problem and propose methods and solutions to remedy it and achieve meeting the educational needs of the deprived due to the condition they have to go through.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2018
  • Issue No: 80/81
  • Page Range: 169-178
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English