Dadamac

Collaboration, Education, Livelihoods and Development in a Changing World

Education and Training

For Dadamac at ICTD2010 see http://www.dadamac.net/ICTD2010

Our education and training interests are wide-ranging regarding:

  • Content
    • Vocational/academic
    • Community/personal
    • Accredited/non-formal
  • Participants - all ranges of age and backgrounds including:
    • Post-graduate
    • Illiterates
    • Children
    • Health, education and other professionals
    • Retired people
    • Professionals
    • People with disabilites.
  • Delivery methods
    • Face to face teaching and training
    • Resource based learning
    • Project based learning
    • Supported self-directed learning and learning by doing
    • Distance learning
    • Internet enabled learning
    • Phone enabled learning
    • Online communities of interest
    • Distance tutoring/mentoring

Our education and training work is relevant to many people with education/training interests inlcuding:

  • Philanthropists/volunteers wanting to support local education/training
  • People needing to provide similar education/training in other locations
  • Policy makers and other change agents wanting to observe or implement local take-up of educational changes.
  • Academics with research interests overlapping any Dadamac areas of work (at a distance of through field work)
  • Employers looking for suitably skilled employees 
  • Education/training providers wishing to extend their services to  underserved communities.

We don't yet have full information online about all our projects. Please contact us for more information about possible areas of overlapping interest.

Projects in Education and Training

  • Dadamac actively supports closer collaboration between academics and practitioners. We are ...
  • John Dada's vision for Attachab Eco-village is that it will be a model integrated farm with a high...
  • Typically in Nigeria, honey is collected from the wild, and then sold by women in the local markets...
  • Cameras for Communication (C4C) is a practical training course, covering basic camera operating...
  • Pamela first contributed to Crown Agents courses at the invitation of David McLean (no relative)....
  • Dadamac Day is an annual celebration which is held online and at Fantsuam Foundation. The start...
  •  ESSPIN stands for Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria. “ESSPIN is a partnership...
  • The Knowledge Resource Centre (KRC) is in a building on the main site of our sister organisation...
  • Our sister organisation, Fantsuam Foundation, in North Central rural Nigeria, runs an Orphans and...
  • This is something that I (Pamela McLean) am exploring as a Dadamac Learner in the Dadamacadamy...
  • Professor Dick Heller, Dr John Dada and Pamela McLean collaborated on the foundation work for what...
  • This is a project overseen by John Dada and run by Fantsuam Foundation. The aim is to raise the...
  • Teachers Talking (TT) is an introduction to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for...
  • John Dada oversees this project at Fantsuam Foundation. This is a fantastic initiative which will...