User:BriGonz/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Education for refugees, migrants and internally displaced persons - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because I am interested in refugees, migrants, and internally displaced persons. In specific, I am interested in the topics of challenges in refugee education and funding. This article would substantially improve if there were a section regarding the challenges that trauma may pose to refugee and migrant children and a section that touches on the research and literature that discusses possible improvements to the educational system and recognizes that education is not the primary way to escape poverty. I feel this article is maybe misleading to readers and may suggest that they must perform well in academics to escape their poverty-ridden lives. For the reasons I have previously mentioned, I have decided to evaluate this article. I feel students who take an interest in studying the effects of trauma and implementing trauma-informed care in education can make more informative and inclusive contributions to improve this article.

Evaluate the article
Throughout this article, I noticed a heavy emphasis on education as a means to escape poverty. I feel this common idea completely overlooks the complexities and multifaceted factors of poverty. I would be interested in contributing to this article by including literature about the history of education concerning refugees and mention the lack of services thought to impact refugees’ trauma.

Additionally, editors may improve this article by including more about the “needs” discourse so that editors may inform readers about common debates and recent and ongoing efforts or lack thereof in education for refugees, migrants, and internally displaced persons. There is no mention of research that can provide more information on the effects of trauma-informed care among youth refugee students. Some countries have implemented trauma-informed care approaches in their education programs, and I feel this literature may be informative for readers to understand the efforts in addressing these issues.

I would argue that this article misrepresents historically marginalized people. This article states that education is the primary way refugees, migrants, and internally displaced people can adjust to their new communities’ linguistic, social, and cultural environments. The viewpoint does not acknowledge good health’s role in fostering a good and safe environment for refugees to feel prepared to take on a new language and be immersed in a new education system. We may improve this article by mentioning the underlying factors that affect refugee and immigrant youth students, which are not solely educational.

There is a brief mention of the role of trauma in educational experiences. I feel this must be elaborated on better to understand its impact on refugee and immigrant students.

Throughout the article, there is a mention of refugee enrollment statistics in primary and secondary education compared to global registration, and the differences are shocking significant. The numbers would indicate a much larger problem among the refugee student population that has affected their educational enrollment. Those issues must be acknowledged and addressed if we expect to understand the numbers provided.

I found this article to be heavily concerned with the challenges teachers face as they attempt to address their refugee students, which I found inappropriate to be the main focus under the challenges section. I feel the refugee students experience the most significant challenges, and readers must recognize that.

The section concerned with education funding does recognize that refugee education is underfunded, which is an excellent start to a conversation about the history of funding (state provisioning). Editors may improve the article by discussing the benefits of allocating impactful funds to refugee education.

Throughout this article, the language emphasizes the person’s problem, which is very problematic and misleading in the importance of refugee education. In this case, the refugee is at fault for not performing well or recognizing their full potential, which many would argue is an inaccurate representation of refugees’ efforts in their host countries and does not acknowledge the more significant poverty issues. The dominant idea that refugees are at fault is being reproduced throughout the article. There is no mention of why refugees are experiencing displacement and relocation, which affects their education and ability to learn.

Editors could add more information regarding teacher training to understand better what methods have been used to address refugee and immigrant students’ trauma in schools. Also, additional information regarding state provisioning would be helpful.

The section concerned with mobile learning does a great job of pointing out portable learning benefits to refugee students. Still, it does not mention the barriers some students face and how this could disadvantage some more than others. Obstacles such as access to technology and internet access should provide the readers with a better understanding of virtual learning’s pros and cons.

The article is rated as a low-importance article concerning as I feel the article’s content is of high importance. The impact on refugees is worth considering and discussing to improve their educational experiences and better assist them. I question the process of rating these articles.

This article mentions refugee education, trauma, and poverty differently from discussing these topics in class. The approach taken by the article is very individualistic and victim-blaming, which I find disturbing and harmful not only to the refugee population but to the understanding of Wikipedia readers.