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  • Teaching and Learning in Complex Contexts: Imagining a Significant Future in Refugee Education

    The Living, Learning and Teaching in Dadaab refugee camp (LLTD) project has organised for a symposium that will take place at UBC Vancouver location from 18th to 20th March 2018. LLTD is a research project that explores what it means to live, learn and teach in a refugee camp to help improve the opportunities available […] Read More

  • Half A Tongue!

    The eldest amongst them cleared his throat. “Hmm” he said, “Gentlemen, when a problem happens, we ask ‘how do we solve it?’ and not ‘how did it happen?’” Read More

  • Why would Dadaab community appreciate higher education offered within Dadaab setup?

    UBC’s Faculty of Education and Moi University in Kenya are collaborating to offer university education in Dadaab through the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees [BHER] project. Read More

  • Importance of training high school teachers in Dadaab

    First of all, why are secondary (high school) graduates hired as teachers in their own schools as soon as they graduate? To answer this question, let me give a brief summary of how secondary schools are run in Dadaab. Read More

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    Living, learning and teaching in Dadaab (LLTD) camps is a research project that aims at improving the academic welfare of the refugee teachers in Dadaab. It is supported by the university of British columbia (UBC) and run along side with Moi University. Read More

Upcoming Event

Teaching and Learning in Complex Contexts: Imagining a Significant Future in Refugee Education

LLTD has organised for a symposium at UBC Vancouver from 18th to 20th March 2018. LLTD is a research project that explores what it means to live, learn and teach in a refugee camp to help improve the opportunities available for teachers for their sustained professional growth and continued learning.

There will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and interact with researchers and educators in refugee education as well as students participating in the research project.

To register for this symposium, please follow this link

Living, Learning and Teaching in Dadaab (LLTD) camps is a research project that aims at improving the academic welfare of refugee teachers in Dadaab. Dadaab Refugee Camp is located in sub Sahara Northeast Kenya and is the largest protracted refugee camp in the world. LLTD is a collaborative research project with The University of British Columbia (UBC), Moi University, Kenya, and NGO Windle Trust Kenya.

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While LLTD is a research project that creates an understanding of teacher education and student learning in the camps and with an ultimate goal of exploring ways of improving learning and teaching in Dadaab refugee schools, Dadaab Teacher Education Program (TEP) Office at UBC deals with funding and administration of the program.

Working alongside the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) offering higher education in Dadaab, LLTD focuses on better understanding the experiences of refugee teachers in order to improve higher education and professional development for teachers. LLTD explores what it means to live, learn and teach in Dadaab. A goal of the project is to provide vital knowledge needed for sustained teacher learning in emergency crisis situations.

LLTD Team consists of UBC professors, graduate students , and undergraduate research assistants. All undergraduate research assistants are former Dadaab refugee teachers contributing their invaluable experience of living, learning and teaching in Dadaab.

Outcomes of the project will be useful for national and international policy-makers, NGOs, educators and communities receiving resettled refugees. The project will help us understand more deeply the complexities of teaching in Dadaab and inspire hope and change for improving education in refugee camps throughout the world.

Living, Learning and Teaching (LLTD) project is funded by the Social Sciences and Research Humanities Council (SSRHC).

The project also got support from UBC’s Hampton Research Partnership Grant and UBC’s Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP) in the Faculty of Education Strategic Initiatives Fund.

You can visit our BLOG here to read more about the stories our team shares from their experiences in Dadaab.


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