Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
Over the
years to date, there had been many emerging issues in the world. These issues
include human right violations, discrimination against women, child abuse,
climate change, HIV/ AIDS and bad governance. These issues are very prominent
in developing countries in which Sierra Leone coming from a brutal civil
conflict which lasted a little over a decade is not exclusion. The war was
formally declared ended in the year, 2002. However, the prevailing conditions
of the country send a very worrisome signal. This research entitled “The Role
of Teachers, Facilitators, Teacher-Trainees and other Education Stakeholders in
the Participatory and Behaviour Change programme in Sierra Leone. A case study
of the Introduction of Emerging Issues Course in the Teachers Certificate
Programme in post War Sierra Leone” has been undertaken to investigate the
roles of the following factors: - teachers, facilitators, teacher-trainees and
other education stakeholders in the reform of the curriculum and the introduction
of the new course of study knownas Emerging Issues. The study adopted a
descriptive Research Survey design with a focus on two research questions such
as “In what extent to which teachers, facilitators, teacher-trainees and other
education stakeholders understood their roles in fostering positive
constructive behaviour change in students? And what challenges associated with
the implementation of the introduction of participatory and behavioural change
in the Teacher Certificate Programme?” The study reveals that among the teacher
trainees, 60% of them stated they should serve as role models whilst 21.6% of
the respondents disclose that they should use participatory teaching techniques
in school. Other responses recorded 17 respondents (11%) reveals that teacher
trainees should avoid negative practices. The study also shows that; 45% of the
respondents said facilitators too must serve as role models, 40.0% opined that
the facilitators should use participatory techniques in their lessons so that
teachers will be familiar with such techniques. 10% pointed out those
facilitators should avoid negative practices and 5.0% stated that they should
do the correct things at all times respectively.
Country : Sierra Leone
IRJIET, Volume 5, Issue 11, November 2021 pp. 15-27