Supporting refugee students in schools: What constitutes inclusive education?

This research summary is part of an online module on refugee education – Chartered College of Teaching members can access this learning for free.   This article summaries the following original research article:  Taylor S and Sidhu R (2012) Supporting refugee students in schools: What constitutes inclusive education? International Journal of Inclusive Education 16(1): 39–56.   Introduction The aim of this study was to contribute to a greater understanding of how schooling can help to integrate refugee children into schools and the wider community. Schools face significant challenges if they are to contribute positively towards the inclusion of refugee students in their country of asylum. Refugees face many barriers to inclusion, including attitudinal barriers and racism, while the medicalisation of refugees as subjects of trauma may compound their marginalisation by relegating resilient survivors to welfare dependency.  Based on case studies of four schoo