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| Acting Director of the Ghana Education Service, Mrs Benedicta Naana Biney |
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A crowd at the launching ceremony in Accra
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Story: Mary Ankrah
THE acting Director of the Ghana Education Service, Mrs Benedicta Naana Biney, has urged teachers to adopt a simple approach to learning rather than seeing education as a process of transition and transaction to strengthen holistic education.
This, she said, should be concerned with intellectual, emotional, social, physical, artistic, creative and spiritual potentials.
She observed that holistic education sought to educate the whole person; learning about oneself, relationship, resilience that would enable a person to overcome difficulties and challenges and obtain justice and success.
As a result, it will encourage students to see the beauty of what is around them and appreciate it.
“Equipping pupils and students with values, attitudes and skills to be productive persons who live in harmony as responsible citizens is the goal of education,” she added.
She said that would also enable the students to make rational choices based on the values of democracy, equity, justice, freedom, human rights and concern for the well-being of others.
She made this call at the launch of the 50th anniversary celebration of Akosombo International School (AIS) at a ceremony in Accra.
The anniversary is scheduled for October 27 this year and is on the theme: “Strengthening Holistic Education - AIS in the Next Decade.”
The school was established in 1962 to provide educational facilities at kindergarten and primary level for the children of workers (mainly expatriates), who were engaged in the construction of the Akosombo Dam.
With the completion of the Akosombo Dam project in 1966, AIS was opened to the children and wards of all employees of the Volta River Authority (VRA) while in 1968 a secondary school was added to the existing nursery and primary schools.
At its establishment, the secondary school was intended to follow technical courses in order to take advantage of the numerous facilities in Akosombo including carpentry workshops, vehicle workshop, communication workshop, mechanical workshop and others.
Speaking on the theme for the anniversary, Mrs Biney said the trends for education in the next decade would suggest a new holistic and child-centered approach which would require a rapid growth of online learning as a form of training for teachers and would enable them deal with problems during teaching.
She entreated the students to engage in more research and urged the school authorities to continue to produce men and women of integrity who would take up responsible positions in the country in future.
She advised parents to monitor the studies of their children at home and provide the needed environment to make them stay focused in school, adding that traditional rulers and school authorities have a role in monitoring teaching and learning.
For her part, the deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of Finance at VRA, Ms Alexandra Portoe, recommended that in celebrating 50 years, the management of the school should review the past so that they could develop new ideas for the school in ways that would have a positive impact on the future generation and the country at large.
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