The Role of Teachers, Facilitator’s Teacher-Trainees and other Educational Stakeholders in the Participatory and Behavioural Change Programme in Post War Sierra Leone

Abstract

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

1 Chebli Cidi M.2 Kabia Allieu B.3 Kanu Abu Bakarr S.

  1. Department of Extra –Mural Studies, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone (USL), Sierra Leone
  2. Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology (EBKUST), Sierra Leone
  3. Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology (EBKUST), Sierra Leone

IRJIET, Volume 5, Issue 11, November 2021 pp. 15-27

doi.org/10.47001/IRJIET/2021.511004

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