Building a culture of collective responsibility
Friday, August 05, 2022 | 520 Views |
Instead of investing deeply on instructional core, the tendency is to tinker at the surface.
A lot of energy is wasted on the blame game, where there is a toxic culture of trading accusations and counter accusations rather than cultivating a positive climate encouraging exchange of rigorous pedagogic (instruction) and governance practices.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...