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Discussion about entry: Ngoma vocational Secondary School
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I had a fulfilled day after landing on this site by use of the search Engine. I doing all i can to catch up and well, it is shocking some friends are on but they have never told me about this change maker site.
That aside,
What are we changing? from what to what? I seem to have a problem with the limitation to reading, writing and math! as conditions for the competition. i also see people talk about different computer software programmes and all sorts of technology, that is okey but are these the people that need change?.
I would like to inform the world that the village where i come from, over 90% of the population have not seen a computer later on touched it, other than here about it possibly on a radio. What am driving at is, can we be real agents of change?.
There are villages without nursery, primary and secondary schools. can we move down to these villages and address the real need. If we are for example changing from a no school to a small school, to me that is change that can be evaluated over years and its real impacts realised over time.
with the US $5000 which is about 10,000,000 Uganda shillings, my village can get a classroom block albeit without windows and doors where children can assemble and acquire some knowledge and skills that they need for the future. and use that as a stepping stone to another level.
Jacob Browski once said, "The creative personality is one that always looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument of change..............if the world is perfectly all right the way it is, you have no place in it"
I don't think the Western model needs to be copied...so many facts stuffed into people's brains that they will never remember 80% of them.
We first need to have nursery, primary and secondary schools...if we can get teachers to come, even volunteers, from the more developed countries until we can train more teachers there.
We need schools built so that children have the right to go and the means to go, and do not have to pay for the "privilege" of having an education. We see children teaching and reading to each other in the fields...we see little ones trying to sell things on the street to pay for their schooling...we should help them and support them to be all that they can be.
We should teach them how to read and write and do simple maths...we should give them enough so they can continue learning all through their lives in their own ways and time...we should teach them interspersonal skills and social skills and respect for culture...tolerance...human rights...equality...we should give them skills to make a living and we need to make sure that there is work for them at the end of all this, or that they can be self-supportive in some way.
I know there is a big push to get computers into schools etc, and that is not a bad thing, but lets face the facts that in some places we first need the schools and we need to make it possible for the children to go to them!
I do think part of the western model needs to be copied. One thing is for a fact, disassociating ourselves from the west is utter suicide. thehy influence almost everything in International Relations and yes it is our right to compete globally.
The stuffing of the brain makes it melt. I do not have a problem with that because you can generally tell the difference between some one who has gone to school and my brother who has not. I only have a problem when the going to school becomes to theoretical than practical. that can be worked on.
You will realise that am lobbying for a vocational secondary school and believe me that would be very significant change in my village. It hurts me when i see those young boys and girls stranded after primary seven without any skill to face the future. I am looking at the basics really and the goal is to make sure that they are self supportive in some way in future.
thhe big push to get computers will not work for people like me....we have no school to put the computers in though if we had a school (physical strucure and students etc) we would very much appreciate it.
thank you for re emphasising my need for the school first and then making students go to them.
good day
Further to my nomination of Lynette Diederichs and Cued Speech South Africa (www.cuedspeech.co.za), I would be very interested to hear from any organisation that is teaching deaf children to read in Africa (in any language but especially English). For those of you that are able to see video (as Flash or videostream), there is a video on http://www.thrass.co.uk/kt09.htm, which gives a good idea of the fantastic work that Lynette is doing. To my mind, she is a real champion. especially as deaf children are often isolated and unable to communicate with their families - especially in Africa.
Alan,
thank you for the post. you are very right about the deaf children. i have definitely picked interest and am going to do research in my village and find out how many are being helped.
we have about four schools of the deaf in uganda...one is right in my neighbourhood in kampala and am not sure about the others. would you want contact with a government aided school for the deaf? will try to find out if there are organisations thhat look after the deaf and pass on the link.
let me know what you think.
good evenning
niwagaba
Niwagaba,
The Cued Speech method that Lynette uses is for teaching deaf children to read in English. There are associations in the UK (Cued Speech Association UK) and also the United States (the National Cued Speech Association). What language do the children speak in Kampala and Uganda as a whole? Is English one of the national languages?
Alan
Alan,
ugandans are English in black skin....Yes English is our national language. Uganda was a British Protectorate for about 70years until we got independence from Britain on the 9th october 1962. We subscribe to the British standards. I have started on identifying children that are deaf from my village. i should come up with some information about them and start devising means of how we can be of help. Given that they are in a rural area, surely, i doubt anyone is bothered. That is bad. good day
Niwagaba
Niwagaba,
Are there any computers in your schools and, in particular, in your area? We have a free software programme for teaching Cued Speech to deaf children. If you have any teachers of the deaf (or any interested teacher or parent), we could get someone to download it and then install it.
I ask this because, for a good number of schools that we work with in South Africa and Nigeria, the schools do not have electricity - let alone know what a computer looks like!
Alan
A good number of rural schools like you say do not have electricity but there are some schools that have electricity, those that are in trading centres. the dilema is that they dont have computers. you see the thing is this, it is like for everything one does, especially in africa, you have to like begin from basics. i think we would just have to start from scratch in most areas if we are gonna make change. what am doing for my area so far is identifying how many deaf there are and soon will come up with alternatives on how to assit them. i stay near the DEAF LINK organisation in Uganda, am gonna walk there and try to get some informationabout the deaf and will gladly pass it on to you.
i hope that is okey.
good day
I definitely agree. It is harder in Africa and you really have to get yourself imagining their true situation and not imagining your imagination of how the situation could be if you were living there. This are two different parts that have to be seperated. Above all it is a major important issue to get electricity in ever school, that is very important, because if it is the case, they can slowly begin building up a computer system from one school to another, but equality is a major factor because this is something there that develops with time and higher set standards.
This schools need a technical school system being build up and helping them developing their skills but above all their enironmentel development. That is a very important issue today. They need to feel safer and more comfortable in the way they are taught about life. School needs to be more systematically build up than just out of a fantasy.
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