GOV. OBASEKI'S BASIC EDUCATION REFORM: REVIEWS, RECOMMENDATION SCORECARD AND PERSONAL ASSESSMENT: USING 'EDO-BEST' AND 'EDO READING CULTURE CAMPAIGN' AS A CASE STUDY
By: Goodluck Osama Ogbeide
(Author/Educationist)
Chairman, ANA Edo State Chapter)
INTRODUCTION
Let me chronicle this piece by first unravelling the fact that this article is in consonance to my wealth of experience as an Author of Basic Education literature textbooks, a core Educationist and advocationist of grassroots watering, as a vital tool for enthroning qualitative learning.
There is no iota of doubt that Gov. Obaseki's approach to education differs from that of other contemporary Governors.
In order to unravel this fact, I shall meticulously analyze his unfading blue print in the Basic Education Sector, which is his first priority and opening approach in education sector.
In order to weave the nitty gritty of this topic, it will be expedient to note that the Education system is broad. Running through Pre-Basic, Basic, Higher Basic to the Higher Instution. It is almost impossible for a specific government to expect 100% positive result if he tends to face the entire sector at once. The ability for Gov. Obaseki to meticulously choose to restructure Basic Education by watering the seed at the grassroots, before cutting up the top of the plant is what distinguished him from a hosts of many others.
It would have been a total failure for the Governor to continue the red-roof projects pioneered by his predecessor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. It is one thing to build the physical structure or conducive atmosphere for learning and it is another to totally restructure the learning system from the scratch. In achieving this, Gov. Obaseki who is not the noise making type focused on the grassroots learning aid, which was no doubt actualized through the introduction of technological appliances, in lieu of promoting the modern day teaching methodology. While doing this, the Governor did not also neglect the Higher Education sector as things are currently on gear insame sector. That by the way. Gov. Obaseki is of the notion that building on a fragile foundation won't help the Education system because it will fail at once. In one of his numerous visitation, while inspecting schools, he remarked "You cannot build two storey building on a foundation whose building plan is of a self contain apartment", Mr. Godwin Obaseki
REVIEWS
This discourse shall focus its attention on two (2) vital aspects of Basic Education. This is because, its one seperate thing to read and its another thing to provide the necessary infrastructure or aid for learning conducively. Gov. Obaseki happens to be one of those Governors who cares and clamours for the application of modern day innovative Technology for the Basic level. A methodology where technological gadgets is used to teach from the grassroots level. The two major case study for this discourse is:
(1) Introduction of the Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation (Edo BEST), which was
One of the gigantic landmark and u... Read more
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