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

ISBN-13: 9783030771508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 130 str.

Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia; Roland Happ; Sarah Nell-Müller

Spis treści

1. Experiences of Refugees when Entering Higher Education and over the Course of their Studies: A Literature Review of Structural and Personal Challenges; Sarah Nell-Müller, Roland Happ, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia & Franziska Reinhardt.- 2. Learning with and from People Living in Displacement: The Promise of Borderless Higher Education; Don Dippo.-3. Rebuilding Sustainable Communities through Higher Education in Emergencies; Barbara Moser-Mercer.- 4. Study Success and Opportunities for Refugees in Higher Education – An Effectiveness Analysis; Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Sarah Nell-Müller, Dr. Roland Happ, Franziska Reinhardt & Jennifer Fischer.- 5. Refugees’ Pathways to Higher Education – Digital Support to bridge the gap between Intentions and Realities; Patricia Arnold & Belma Halkic.- 6. Linguistic Entry Requirements of Students with a Refugee Background; Roland Happ, Tobias Deribo, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia & Franziska Reinhardt.

O autorze

Professor Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanska has been Professor of Business  and  Economics  Education at the Johannes Gutenberg University  Mainz (Germany) since 2006 and heads the SUCCESS project (Study Success of Students with a Refugee Background). She is a fellow of the International Academy of Education and directed the nationwide research programme “Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education – Validation and Methodological Innovations” (KoKoHs). Her research revolves on various topics of student learning and higher education, e.g. professionalism in teaching, the  implementation of education policy reform  programs and the international comparison of educational systems. The question of how learning is to be designed in the future using new digital technologies is a central part of her research.

Dr. Roland Happ is a research assistant at the Chair of Business and Economics  Education at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz (Germany). He is a co-principal  investigator of the SUCCESS project. His research focuses on the knowledge acquisition in different subjects (economics, business, political science etc.) of young adults who are at the transition from  school to university. In this research context, he also focuses on assessing both German- and English- language skills and their impact on students’ domain-specific learning.

Sarah Nell-Müller is a research associate at the Chair of Business and Economics Education at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz (Germany). She has been working on the SUCCESS research project since 2017. She focuses on qualitative studies and analyses on the educational pathways of refugees with a study interest.