Celia Reddick

Research Focus

I study education in contexts of conflict and crisis, examining within-group and contextual variability in refugee education. Specifically, I examine the role of language policies and pedagogy in refugee children’s learning. I have three streams of work in this area. 1) First, I study within-group variability in refugee education, analyzing the school-based factors related to language that influence refugee children’s learning, well-being, and aspirations for the future. 2) Relatedly, I examine contextual variability, studying educators’ varying approaches to multilingualism in classrooms with refugee and host country students together, seeking to understand why and how teachers of refugees vary their practice. 3) Finally, I examine school-level factors that support refugee children’s development, as well as factors at the family level that enable refugee children and families to thrive in highly constrained environments. This research has been enabled by relationships with educators, policymakers, and young people navigating education in settings of conflict and forced migration, and has implications for education policy and practice in refugee-hosting settings.