Dr. Jennifer Vadeboncoeur
Canada’s refugee resettlement program aims to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees — half of them children — by the end of February. As Jennifer Vadeboncoeur, associate professor in the Faculty of Education points out, many of these children have had little to no formal education.
Vadeboncoeur, who teaches with the Dadaab Secondary Teacher Education Program for the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, shares her insight into how schools and educators can help newly arrived refugee children adjust to schooling in Canada.