The MCIES Confrence

Am so impressed by the presentation given by the IU graduate students on their session about save the children. I realized that most African countries has similar educational challenges. James Brown said that Lack of trained teacher and educational materials was a big problem facing the education sector in mali. He said there were some similarities and differences that existed between the trained and the un trained teacher. The similarity is that both of them struggled in providing the content to the students due to lack of materials. The difference is that the trained teachers were so creative in their teaching. They knew how to capture the attention of the learners right away during the introduction of the lesson by use of skills like songs that easily drew the attention and interest of the learners. When i take a look on South Sudan, these are some of the challenges facing the education sector too. What are we then going to do as scholars to reduce some of the educational challenges back home? To me i think we need to take action other than just complaining. We should start solving some of these challenge like lack of material but writing our own books in our respective disciplines. It it a hard work and time consuming but don't you think it will make a difference?

Developing South Sudan History Curriculum.

I think South Sudan should adopt a mix approach in their history curriculum. They should include the history of identity, things of progress in economic and social life, exclude cost of national identity and ethnic tribal problems. The following are reasons why.

Including history of identity will help the people identify themselves as South Sudanese as well as accept, respect and appreciate their diverse cultural heritage, study the story of their origin, freedom and political progress. The knowledge of identity will help us understand the important of unity and peaceful co- existence of all the diverse ethnic communities.
We should include things of economic and social progress because the people should know how the country has been progressing and is progressing economically and socially in both internal and external levels. The ethnic groups them selves will also learn how they can relay on each other economically and socially. This will contribute greatly to nation building.
We should exclude cost of national and ethnic tribal problems because the knowledge of these bad happenings will provoke negative feelings and spirit of revenge in people which will make no meaning to the sense to national identity but endless fighting. The curriculum should instead be design in a way that will enable the learners comprehend the impacts of conflict. What do you think will be the first step the fourteen of us will take in sharing these interesting knowledge of what approach to take  in improve the history curriculum of South Sudan when we go back home?