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Roads to Refuge

NSW Department of Education

Roads to Refuge is designed to give students, teachers and the community access to relevant, factual and current information about the global context, refugee communities living in Australia and the educational needs of students from refugee backgrounds.

  • Online

Pricing: Free

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Product type: Fact sheets; Online resources (e.g. videos, games, tools, readings); Student activities; Whole school approach or initiative; Class lesson plans

Contact details

NSW Department of Education
ABN: 40 300 173 822

https://www.roads-to-refuge.com.au

multicultural.programs@det.nsw.edu.au

Focus areas

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Grief and loss

Curriculum alignment

  • English

  • Humanities and Social Science

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1)

Context: School or centre-based, E-schools

Main beneficiaries: Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Student, self-directed

Aims & approach

The website contains: Home, Who is a refugee, Refugee journeys, Refugee settlement, Refugees in Australia, Resources.

Across these pages there are short video clips, written information, photographs and other visuals.

There is a facts and myths section, glossary, teaching ideas and a variety of other resources.

Evidence

Roads to Refugee is a collaboration between NSW Department of Education, University of NSW Kaldor Centre Centre for International Refugee Law (formerly the Centre for Refugee Research).