{"id":3232,"date":"2021-06-04T01:08:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T05:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=3232"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:04:35","slug":"mark-okello-oyat","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/mark-okello-oyat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Okello Oyat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\"><strong>Mark Okello Oyat<\/strong> is a Ugandan refugee residing in Dadaab, Kenya. He is the director of a community-based research organization, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\">the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/what-we-do\/dadaab-response-association\/\">Dadaab Response Association<\/a> (DRA),<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\">\u00a0that positions Mark and his team as refugee scholars in encampment. Some of their work\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\">on refugee education has been<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\">published in\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink BCX0 SCXW170443769\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/learn-with-lerrn\/publications\/dadaab-response-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined BCX0 SCXW170443769\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">LERRN\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">W<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">orking\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">P<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">aper\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">S<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXW170443769\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">eries<\/span><\/span><\/a>, such as Mark&#8217;s Working Paper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2021\/investigating-corporal-punishment-in-refugee-secondary-schools-dadaab-kenya\/\">Investigating Corporal Punishment in Refugee Secondary Schools in Dadaab, Kenya<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark is a graduate of the Master of Education and a research-based study in Language, Culture and Teaching, from York University through the <a href=\"http:\/\/bher.org\/\">Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project<\/a> in 2020. He had a Bachelor of Arts at the same University and passed with the highest honour, Summa Cum Laude.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[278,196,257,258,251,260,239,240,178],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mark Okello Oyat - LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/mark-okello-oyat\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/mark-okello-oyat\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/mark-okello-oyat\/\",\"name\":\"Mark Okello Oyat - 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