Educational and Socio-Psychological Needs of Internally Displaced Children in Ukraine

• Authors: Larysa Kolesnyk , Petro Kendzor

Abstracts

EN

In 2014 the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine forced thousands of people to leave their homes and seek refuge elsewhere. The number of officially registered internally displaced persons (IDPs) has exceeded 1.76 million. More than 300 thousand of them are children. The aim of the paper is to present the results of sociological research “Study of socio-psychological needs of school-age children, displaced from the Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone (ATO)”. Quantitative and qualitative research methods, the survey of parents and teachers who work with IDP children have been applied. Results show IDP children do not have specific needs the satisfaction of which would require a separate intervention. On the contrary, there is a need for maximum integration in the social environment of the host community. The research was conducted within the framework of the project “Integration Through Dialogue”, 2015–2017, with the support of the European Commission.

Keywords

EN

internally displaced person (IDP); IDP children; educational needs; socio-psychological needs of IDP children; communication and rejecting problems; adaptation and integration in host community

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 50
• Pages: 36-46

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Larysa Kolesnyk

author

Petro Kendzor

References

• Conflict-related Displacement in Ukraine: Increased Vulnerabilities of Affected Populations and Triggers of Tension within Communities (2016). [Thematic report]. Published by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. Osce.org. Retrieved from http://www.osce.org/ ukraine-smm/ 261 176?download:true
• Garkavenko, Z., Karagodina O., Kendzor, P., Kolesnyk, L. & Shaposnikova, A. (2016).
• Vyvchennia socialno-psyhologichnyh potreb ditey shkilnogo viku, peremischenyh iz zony ATO [Study of Socio-psychological needs of School-age Children Displaced from the ATO Zone]. Retrieved from http://dialogos.org.ua/pro-proekt/opytuvannya.
• Hines, D. & Balletto, R., (2002), Assessment of Needs of Internally Displaced Persons in
• Colombia [Working and discussion papers]. Retrieved from https://www.odi.org/publications/1988-assessment-needs-internally-displaced-persons - colombia
• Stiehm, Judith Hicks and Nicholas W. Townsend (2002). The U.S. Army War College:
• Military Education in a Democracy. Temple University Press. Ukrainians’ Attitudes Towards Internally Displaced Persons from Donbas and Crimea.

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2017.50.4.03

Biblioteka Nauki

1997531