{"id":4,"date":"2015-01-21T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2015-06-22T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T22:39:43","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2009, the UBC Faculty of Education has been working with Kenya&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mu.ac.ke\/\">Moi University<\/a> and the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya to develop and implement a teacher education program for secondary school teachers in the Dadaab settlement. A similar partnership between York University and Kenyatta University has produced the teacher education program for elementary school teachers.<\/p>\n<p>The Diploma in Teacher Education has been developed with the following goals in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to improve education for the children (particularly girls) of Dadaab,<\/li>\n<li>to support teachers to develop and augment their teaching competencies,<\/li>\n<li>to broaden opportunities for children\/youth and teachers through enhanced education so that both the children\/youth and the teachers qualify for subsequent academic opportunities,<\/li>\n<li>to interrupt the loss of further generations of Dadaab refugees to the limitations of the camp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The online resources developed for the Dadaab program can be found on this UBC Blog.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar targetDiv = document.getElementById(\"branding\")\nvar targetNode = targetDiv.getElementsByTagName(\"img\")\ntargetNode[0].src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/files\/2015\/06\/dadaabbanner2.jpg\"\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2009, the UBC Faculty of Education has been working with Kenya&#8217;s Moi University and the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya to develop and implement a teacher education program for secondary school teachers in the Dadaab settlement. A similar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10655,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}