{"id":132,"date":"2015-06-03T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2015-06-03T21:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T21:35:12","slug":"kenyan-connections-conference-inverness-monday-8th-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/2015\/06\/03\/kenyan-connections-conference-inverness-monday-8th-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Connections Conference: Inverness, Monday 8th June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.croftingconnections.com\/images\/logo_new.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"139\" \/>Kenyan Connections is a partnership between\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.croftingconnections.com\/\">Crofting Connections<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/necofakenya.wordpress.com\/\">NECOFA<\/a> Kenya School Gardens Initiative which works with rural schools and communities in the Eastern Rift Valley of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Four Crofting Connections schools have been awarded funding through the British Council\u2019s Connecting Classrooms programme to host exchange teacher visits with Kenyan schools, using food growing in the school gardens as a starting point for learning about local food production and for delivering learning for sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>This conference is part of a visit to Scotland by\u00a0Kenyan teachers to\u00a0the participating\u00a0Crofting Connections schools. It\u00a0provides\u00a0\u00a0a valuable\u00a0CLPL opportunity for teachers, as the Scottish and Kenyan partner schools share their learning with other schools.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers include Dr Margaret Bennett, writer, folklorist, singer and broadcaster; Dr Rehema White, lecturer in Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews; Samuel Muhunyu, director of NECOFA Kenya, and Catriona Willis, Global Learning coordinator at Highland One World.<\/p>\n<p>For further information and to book a place at this event, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.croftingconnections.com\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan Connections is a partnership between\u00a0Crofting Connections\u00a0and NECOFA Kenya School Gardens Initiative which works with rural schools and communities in the Eastern Rift Valley of Kenya. Four Crofting Connections schools have been awarded funding through the British Council\u2019s Connecting Classrooms programme to host exchange teacher visits with Kenyan schools, using food growing in the school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/2015\/06\/03\/kenyan-connections-conference-inverness-monday-8th-june\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kenyan Connections Conference: Inverness, Monday 8th June<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40150,7920,40149],"tags":[12464,33071,767,40147],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-citizenship","category-learning-for-sustainability","category-outdoor-learning","tag-clpl","tag-lfs","tag-interdisciplinary-learning","tag-learning-for-sustainability"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/lfsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}