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Food and Freedom: developing thinking skills for global citizenship in schools
Programme Objectives
In collaboration with Sapere (The Society for Advancing Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education) this project is providing accredited training in 'Philosophy for Children' (P4C) to around 100 teachers in England and 35 in Ghana. The methods of P4C promoted by SAPERE involves techniques of encouraging the children to take a more active leading role in the learning process. The emphasis is more on understanding rather than just knowing. It seeks to develop children's ability to be curious, inquisitive and to question what they are told.
Programme Activities
Training of the Ghanaian teachers took place during the first two weeks of May, 2005. Thirty-six (36) teachers and three staff of AEB attended the training that was facilitated by SAPERE. The training took place at the Ankasa Exploration Base. Most of the teachers who took part in this training were from schools that have participated in the experiential learning programme.
The teachers and the AEB staff were trained on how to motivate and generate interest in the children, developing their awareness and their ability to question. This method of teaching is now employed by the environmental education leaders on the experiential learning programme as well as by the school teachers.
Since the course, there has been a series of follow-up visits by LEFG staff to schools that participated in the P4C training to assess the impact of the course on the teachers and the children. Individual interviews have also been carried out with the Head teachers about P4C.
Download the report on the findings here
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Ghana in a Nutshell
“Teaching is now more of appreciation of different ways of interpreting and thinking'
Mr. Bale Mathias a J.S.S teacher of Compound/Amoakwa
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