Sunday Okobi
An award-winning author and educationist, Mrs. Kelicha
Ochonogor, has called on governments at all levels to infuse more practical pedagogic
system in the school curriculum and fewer theories in order to reverse the
seeming Nigeria’s falling education standard.
Ochonogor, who stated this recently when she held a media
chat with journalists at Goseld Nursery and Primary School at Iyana Ipaja, Lagos,
also noted that the one-month old learning centre was deploying inclusive
education – a little of the British and Montessori curricula in an harmonised
format.
During the chat she held alongside the institution’s
Administrator, Mrs. Omowunmi Efeveya, and Supervisor, Mr. Adedipe John Ayodeji,
she stressed that her organisation was much more disposed to illustrative and
demonstrative system of education in imparting knowledge, adding that the
pupils are engaged in practical entrepreneurship right from the pre-school
level, “which would develop their skills, help them create jobs and
consequently, help the country.”
The Director of Goseld Nursery and Primary School, who authored
12 books in 2 years, which include ‘United Nations partnership with God’, ‘Darling
is not Working’, ‘The citadel of learning’, ‘A product of an eight-year dream’,
‘Was Stella wrong?’ among others, posited that she is poised to build up a
total child grounded in morality and spiritual uprightness.
Asked why she
ventured into setting up a school, the Master’s degree holder in Education
Administration from Covenant University, Ogun State noted that the decision was
informed by some noticeable lapses she termed ‘misbehaviors’ in the system.
Talking about the school summer programme, she disclosed
that the children spent quality time learning various concepts in vocational and
practical training, which she added would help children grow faster as we as
develop entrepreneurial skill.
According to her, “The children went through profound
experience which will shape the rest of their lives. They enjoy great pastoral
care that allowed them grow personally as well as academically. The foundation
built during this summer will stand them in good stead throughout their school
careers. The summer blast is worthwhile and
all involved had memorable experience.”
The author also noted that her writing centres on biblical
disposition to key issues in the society.
Ochonogor is of the view that government was out to partner
the private sector in encouraging education nationwide hence the establishment
of learning institutions is not captured in the Value Added Tax (VAT) net
though taxable in other respects.
In his remarks, Ayodeji, while throwing more light on the
proposed curriculum for the institution, clarified that it was going for a
comparative one.
By implication, he
said the school was to holistically review various curricula vis-Ã -vis their
strengths and weaknesses and eventually come up with something all-embracing.
He boasted that the institution was the best in the locality
owing to its array of experienced teachers as well as a policy that prioritises
the security and rights of the child.
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