{"title":"Assessing polish teachers’ competencies in working with Ukrainian refugee students: A comparative study across different contexts","authors":"Katarzyna Ćwirynkało , Monika Parchomiuk , Urszula Bartnikowska , Beata Antoszewska , Krystian Barzykowski","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The rapid influx of refugee students from Ukraine has posed challenges to the education system and teachers in Poland. In the current study, we aimed to determine how teachers in Polish schools, at various stages of education, assess their own competencies to work with Ukrainian refugee students. The sample consisted of 684 teachers who declared that they worked with refugee students from Ukraine. The results indicate that teachers generally rate their professional competencies for working with these students as sufficient, with teachers working in lower primary schools and schools in rural settings assessing them as higher than teachers working in upper-secondary schools and schools in urban settings. Implications for practice are discussed. Implications for practice are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102005"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147176724000749","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The rapid influx of refugee students from Ukraine has posed challenges to the education system and teachers in Poland. In the current study, we aimed to determine how teachers in Polish schools, at various stages of education, assess their own competencies to work with Ukrainian refugee students. The sample consisted of 684 teachers who declared that they worked with refugee students from Ukraine. The results indicate that teachers generally rate their professional competencies for working with these students as sufficient, with teachers working in lower primary schools and schools in rural settings assessing them as higher than teachers working in upper-secondary schools and schools in urban settings. Implications for practice are discussed. Implications for practice are discussed.
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IJIR is dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of theory, practice, and research in intergroup relations. The contents encompass theoretical developments, field-based evaluations of training techniques, empirical discussions of cultural similarities and differences, and critical descriptions of new training approaches. Papers selected for publication in IJIR are judged to increase our understanding of intergroup tensions and harmony. Issue-oriented and cross-discipline discussion is encouraged. The highest priority is given to manuscripts that join theory, practice, and field research design. By theory, we mean conceptual schemes focused on the nature of cultural differences and similarities.