Abstract
This article presents a small scale qualitative study which aims to investigate the teachers' perspectives, practices and experiences regarding distance teaching and learning among refugee students in Greece during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the teachers' voices, we attempt to initially map and frame the context of distance education for refugee students, as it was implemented during the first lockdown (March-May 2020) and understand the experiences, challenges and changes involved for both refugee students and teachers. The study was conducted through open-ended online questionnaires, which were completed by 27 participant teachers, teaching students with a refugee/migrant background in their classes and implementing distance teaching during the first COVID-19 school closure. The findings provide insights into the ways teachers and students responded to and experienced distance education as well as the challenges and possibilities involved. Implications are drawn for supporting vulnerable groups with (language) teaching/learning in crisis.
Highlights
IntroductionThe pandemic crisis has had a disproportionate impact on immigrant and refugees since according to OECD (2020), it has negatively affected refugees and their children in terms of health, jobs, education, language training, other integration measures and public opinion
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the lives of millions people all over the world
The study was conducted through open-ended online questionnaires, which were completed by 27 participant teachers, teaching students with a refugee/migrant background in their classes and implementing distance teaching during the first COVID-19 school closure
Summary
The pandemic crisis has had a disproportionate impact on immigrant and refugees since according to OECD (2020), it has negatively affected refugees and their children in terms of health, jobs, education, language training, other integration measures and public opinion. Refugee students were disproportionately affected by these urgent educational responses in Greece since camps were officially locked down since March 2020 and the children were further restricted in many different terms. This small scale qualitative study attempts to investigate the teachers' perspectives, practices and experiences regarding distance learning and learning among refugee students in Greece during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic. Meeting our promises to educate refugees during COVID-19 https://www.savethechildren.net/blog/meeting-our-promises-educate-refugees-during-covid-1 9
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