Expose Young Children To Grandparents To Learn Important Consepts Required In CBC.
Educational experts have asked young parents to expose their children to grandparents to enable them learn important virtues from the older generation.
Mr John Ogega, a retired teacher decried the level of mora decay especially among the youths in the current society.
While speaking at Kabosi village in Nyaribari Chache Constituency, Mr Ogega noted with a lot of concerns that the current society is evolving to another generation in which moral values among the Youths is going to be a thing of the past.
Mr Ogega attributed the degradation of moral values and increase in the vices in the society today to the influence of mass media and change in way of life.
Mr Ogega, the retired educator is now asking parents to allow their children to mingle with their elderly relatives to impart to them important knowledge through the art of storytelling and the traditional songs, noting that they are also relevant in CBC.
“CBC is a good curriculum because it encourages local knowledge that provides a good base for later advanced learning to settle on,” he said.
He further urged the Ministry of Education to support village elders who are experts in indigenous knowledge to enable them publish their work for storage and for the posterity.
He emphasised that indigenous languages help pupils to read in their first language before advancing to other languages, therefore, he asked local writers to author books based on evironment, local heritage and coexistence among communities.
“The pupils start reading by using their vernacular, this puts them in the right track of learning from the known to unknown,” he advised.
He asked the Ministry of Education to hold the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) Workshops at grass root level to enable more stakeholders to participate.
