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Africa-Press<\/a> – Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>American teachers will be sent to Kenya and Tanzania in early 2022 for a five-week benchmarking program.<\/p>\n

The 14 tutors from Northern Illinois University (NIU) will visit the two East African countries to learn local languages including Swahili and the challenges of teaching in Africa.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, September 22, the university announced that the 14 will benefit from the institution\u2019s program dubbed Educate Global.<\/p>\n

Of the 14, seven will be undergraduate teacher-licensure candidates and seven graduate students who are practising teachers.<\/p>\n

Other than learning the challenges and participate in educational activities, the American teachers will also be tasked with understanding social cohesion in Africa and how racism affects the US.<\/p>\n

College of Education faculty official, James Cohen, encouraged the American teachers to change their perspective, evaluate how race affects US citizens, reflect on themselves differently as cultural and racial beings and use the opportunity to grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States is a highly racialized society, and despite the fact that both Kenya and Tanzania were colonized, they\u2019re more tribal than racial. The people we\u2019re going to be taking there, having been raised in the United States, all have racialized perspectives, whether they acknowledge them or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re hoping is to remove race, in a sense, from the equation \u2013 and to see how our students can actually interact with their students as much as possible by mediating that racialized perspective. It\u2019s going to be an experiment,\u201d Cohen stated.<\/p>\n

He hoped that they will look at individuals from a knowledge perspective rather than colour or race.<\/p>\n

The teachers will also interact with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and meeting local leaders in Kenya and Tanzania to learn more about the culture and tradition of residents.<\/p>\n

Teresa Wasonga, a Presidential Engagement Professor at NIU and co-founder of Jane Adeny Memorial School in Kenya, added: \u201cWe want a situation where the teachers from Kenya can interact with the teachers there and, in that process, see how they can benefit the other side and how the other side can benefit them.”<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause instruction in Kenya do not quite allow for critical thinking, we tend to do a lot of rote learning. It\u2019s very narrow, very limited and very academically focused so that kids literally just learn what the book says and not question it. Yet that doesn\u2019t mean the students are not intelligent or competent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her school, Jane Adeny Memorial School, will serve as one of the sites hosting the American teachers. The school is an all-girls boarding secondary institution.<\/p>\n

Wasonga argued that poverty in Tanzania and Kenya is different from that witnessed in the US and urged the travelling teachers to become better from experiences in the African countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019ve noticed in students who\u2019ve come to Kenya is that their lives are completely transformed when they come back here. Things that they had thought were problems for them begin to look like, \u2018This is not anything to worry about.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will question preconceived notions about how students learn, revise lesson plans, modify instruction and reconsider expected outcomes,\u201d she detailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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