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PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Grant

Partnership Goals and Activities

Goals

  • Establish a network of international multidisciplanary researchers, practitioners and other individuals that seek to develop a dynamic and practical repository of knowledge and resources related to the support of refugee children with dis/abilities.
  • Facilitate collaborative international research and project proposals that are community and context driven by front line practitioner entities in search of practical applications of effective practices as part of the synthesis of partnered knowledge development and mobilization.
  • Engage in an international, interdisciplanary approach to understanding the varied experiences and needs of refugee children with dis/abilities.

Achievments

  • Three international symposiums were held (two in Vancouver, Canada and one in Istanbul, Turkiye) in which the experiences of refugee children with dis/abilities were shared and discussed.
  • The REACH international research partnership was founded and expanded
  • Three 'follow-up' project proposals developed (two funded and one under-review)
  • Presentations at academic conferences
    • Williamson, R.L. (2025, April 9). Framing International Inclusive Education to Inform Strategy Development. [Paper Presentation] International Scientific and Practical Conference: Inclusive Education and Society- methodology, research, practice, Atyrau, Kazakhstan
    • Barber, S. & Williamson, R.L. (2024, June 30). Art as Inclusive Practice: Engaging Canadian Refugees with Disabilities [paper presentation], International Association of Special Education Biennial Conference, Pilsen, Czechia
    • Williamson, R.L., Barber, S. & Pazoki, N. (2024, June 30). Lessons learned: Supporting Culturally Complex Students in Inclusive Settings [paper presentation], International Association of Special Education Biennial Conference, Pilsen,     Czechia
    • Williamson, R.L. (2024, April 14). Translating Inclusion: A Model to Relationally Frame International Inclusive Education Research, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA
    • Williamson, R.L., Aldabaibeh, A., Barber, S., Sultangubiyeva, A. & Shilibekova, A. (2024, April 13). Examining the Educational Experiences of Refugee Children with Disabilities in Jordan, Canada, and Kazakhstan. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA
    • Barber, S. & Williamson, R.L. (2024, April 14). Comparing Refugee children with Disabilities and Parents Values in Learning Through the Arts in Canada, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA
    • Barber, S. & Akimenko, O.* (2025, May 15). Dismantling barriers for refugee children with disabilities (RCDs) through inclusive education:  Art methodologies that reduce trauma, promote  translanguaging and increase well-being in Canadian schools. [Universitys conference    proceedings published on website]. Inclusive Education and Society:  Methodology, Research, Practice.  Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Atyrau University, Atyrau, Kazakhstan
    • Barber, S. & Akimenko, O.* (2025, April 9). Dismantling barriers for refugee children with disabilities (RCDs) through inclusive education:  Art methodologies that reduce trauma, promote translanguaging and increase well-being in Canadian schools. [Virtual presentation]. Inclusive Education and Society:  Methodology, Research, Practice.  Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Atyrau University, Atyrau, Kazakhstan. 
    • Akimenko, O.* & Barber, S. (2025, Feb.19). Innovative pedagogies for refugee students: Blending art and translanguaging in elementary schools. [Paper]. WestCast -2025. 間眅埶AV, Burnaby, B.C.
    • Pazoki, N.* & Barber, S. (2024, June 30). Lessons learned:  Supporting culturally complex students within   inclusive settings.  [Paper]. International Association of Special Education, (IASE). University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic.
    • Barber, S. (2023, August 25).  When superdiversity is the norm: Inclusion through the arts as a universal       language guides children towards Canadian curriculum and wellbeing [Paper presentation]. The value of diversity in education and educational research. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) and University of Glasgow, Scotland.
    • *Onipede, O. & Stepaniuk, I. (2024) Advancing equity in education policy making for refugee students with disabilities in Canada (paper presentation). Canadian Society for the Study in Education (CSSE) Annual Meeting: Montreal, Canada.
    • Stepaniuk, I. & *Onipede, O. (2024) Refugee students with disabilities in the K-12 education system in British Columbia: An intersectionality-based policy analysis (paper presentation). American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting: Philadelphia, U.S
    • Stepaniuk, I. & *Onipede, O. (2023) Advancing equity in education for refugee students with dis/abilities in British Columbia (paper presentation). Diverse Approaches to Research in Education (DARE series): 間眅埶AV, Canada.
    • Stepaniuk, I. & *Onipede, O. (2023) Policy making matters: Toward equity in education for refugee students with dis/abilities (online paper presentation). International symposium: Education of refugee children with disabilities: Istanbul University, Turkey.
  • Aritcles Completed/Under-Review/In-Press/Published-Conference-Papers:
    • Barber, S. (2022, Sept. 12). Why the expressive arts led by teachers in schools matter for refugee children. The Conversation: Canada.  (re-published in 9 other publications; 2225 reads). Retrieved from 
    • Williamson, R. L. & PazokiMoakhar, N. (2025-In press). Framing International Inclusive Education to Inform Strategy Development,  迮郇邽郕 訄郕郋迣郋 郇邽赲迮邽迮訄 邽邾迮郇邽 苭訄郅迮郅訄 郋邾訄邾迮迡郋赲訄 (Bulletin of Atyrau University named after Khalel Dosmukhamedov)
    • Williamson, R.L., Alodat, A., Aldabaibeh, A., Alkharouf, R., Cetin, B., Koishigulova, L., Mukhanbetzhanova, A., Sabirova, Z., Shugaeva, G., Sultangubiyeva, A., Pazaki, N., & Oriya, S. (UNDER REVIEW-2025), Translating Inclusion: A Relational Framework of Inclusive Education in International Contexts, International Journal of Inclusive Education
    • Alodat, A., AlKharouf, R., Aldabaibeh, A., Williamson, R.L. & Pazoki, N. (Under Review- 2025). The Educational Experiences of Syrian Refugee Children with Disabilities in Jordanian Public Schools,International Journal of Education and the Arts.
    • Akimenko, O*. & Barber, S. (Accepted-2025, February; revisions). Blending art and translanguaging pedagogies: Supporting refugee children with disabilities in elementary schools to forge a path in education. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education.
    • Barber, S. & Williamson, R. (2024, June 30). Art as Inclusive Practice:  Engaging Canadian Refugees with Disabilities. International Association of Special Education, IASE). Czech Republic.
    • Barber, S. (2024, April 13). From isolation to belonging: How refugee children with disabilities can thrive in artful Canadian schools. In R.L. Williamson (Chair), Examining the Educational Experiences of Refugee Children with Disabilities in Jordan, Canada, and Kazakhstan [Symposium], American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA), Philadelphia, PA, USA.   
    • Stepaniuk, I. & *Onipede, O. (in review) Fostering inclusive futures: Advancing equity in education policy making for refugee students with disabilities.
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    • S.M. Barber, O. Akimenko (9 訄郈迮郅 2025 迣郋迡訄). Dismantling refugee children with disabilities dual barriers to education: trauma and translanguaging strategies in canadian schools. 苤訇郋郇邽郕 邾訄迮邽訄郅郋赲 邾迮迠迡郇訄郋迡郇郋邿 郇訄郇郋-郈訄郕邽迮郕郋邿 郕郋郇迮迮郇邽邽 竄邽郇郕郅郱邽赲郇郋迮 郋訇訄郱郋赲訄郇邽迮 邽 郋訇迮赲郋: 邾迮郋迡郋郅郋迣邽, 邽郅迮迡郋赲訄郇邽迮, 郈訄郕邽郕訄罈 9 訄郈迮郅 2025 迣郋迡訄. 12-16
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    • A.. Sultangubiyeva1, L.E. Koishigulova1 , A.U. Mukhanbetzhanov (n.d.). Problems of socialization of displaced children with disabilities, 訄 郇邽赲迮邽迮郇猀 苭訄訇訄 迮郇邽郕 訄郕郋迣郋 郇邽赲迮邽迮訄 2(74)2024迣