Education and Early Childhood Learning

Life After War: Education as a Healing Process for Refugee and War-Affected Children 2012

The following documents and specific sections are available for download as PDF files.

Interactive PDF Version (6.42 MB) December 18, 2014

In addition to being redesigned as an interactive PDF, video resources for five of the chapters have been identified for introduction or discussion starter purposes.

Life After War: Education as a Healing Process for Refugee
and War-Affected Children (8.02 MB) December 18, 2014

This resource and the two companion documents Life After War: Professional Learning, Agencies, and Community Supports (517 KB) and War Affected Children: A Comprehensive Bibliography (1.36 MB) are web-based resources that are intended to help strengthen the capacity of school communities at all levels (early, middle, and senior years) to provide an appropriate and supportive school environment for refugee and war-affected learners and their families: an environment that will nurture their mental health and well-being, and that will enhance their educational and life outcomes.

Please note that Life After War: Education as a Healing Process for Refugee and War-Affected Children is also available in print form and may be ordered from the Manitoba Learning Resource Centre (formerly the Manitoba Text Book Bureau).

Specific sections of the document:

• Cover Page (155 KB)
• ISBN Page (26 KB)
• Acknowledgements (38 KB)
• Contents (36 KB)
• Introduction (407 KB)
• Part 1: Immigration and Settlement of Newcomers of Refugee Origins (549 KB)
• Part 2: The Effects of War and Resettlement (4.39 MB)
• Part 3: Supporting Student Success in the Classroom (857 KB)
• Part 4: How do we support teachers and staff working with refugee children and families? (127 KB)
• Part 5: Helping Refugee Children and Youth in Schools… (870 KB)
• Part 6: Learning More about Refugee and War-Affected Learners and Families–A Bibliography of Selected Web-Based and Text Resources (1.40 MB)
• Child soldiers—Children and war (198 KB)
• Children and creative interventions (262 KB)
• Cultural diversity (240 KB)
• Mental health supports for war-affected children and families (150 KB)
• Refugees: General information (200 KB)
• Resiliency (168 KB)
• Stories and literary resources by and about refugees (121 KB)
• Schools helping students affected by trauma (109 KB)
• Supporting refugee children and youth, programming models, and resources (205 KB)
• Talking to children (203 KB)
• Vicarious trauma, secondary trauma, and compassion fatique (161 KB)
• Blackline Masters (53 KB)
• References (140 KB)