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Critical Perspectives on the Use of Technology with Refugees and Displaced Communities: The Case of Dadaab
Comprehensive analysis of educational challenges and opportunities in refugee settings, with community-driven recommendations for improvement.
The ‘Not Yet’ and ‘Never’ Resettled: Individual and Communal Waiting Strategies Among Refugees in Kenyan Camps
For many refugees, going home is not possible because of continued instability and local integration is unavailable due to host country policies, so resettlement becomes the only possible “durable solution” to displacement.
Can Higher Education be a Pathway to Repatriation for Youth Living in Displacement? A Study of the Career Trajectories of Master of Education Students from Dadaab Refugee Camp
This paper reports on the results of a research project conducted as part of a Fellowship with the Open Society University Network. In this paper, I asked how has participating in post-secondary education in the Dadaab refugee camps – specifically completing a Master of Education degree through the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees Project
Building Local Professional Learning Communities With And For Teachers In Refugee Camps – A Case Study On Hareed Primary School In Dadaab
This paper is a modified version of a Major Research Paper for the Master of Education degree at York University as part of the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees project, which provides virtual education to refugees in the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya. Without any formal teacher education, in March 2012, I was employed as a new and inexperienced teacher of Mathematics and English Language for grades 7 and 8 at the Hareed Primary School (pseudonym), located in the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya
Building Local Professional Learning Communities with and for Teachers in Refugee Camp
This paper is a modified version of a Major Research Paper for the Master of Education degree at York University as part of the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees project, which provides virtual education to refugees in the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya. In this paper, I employ an action research methodology to argue that, in order to improve the capacity of novice and untrained teachers in schools in the Dadaab refugee complex
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