Sydsudan mangler det hele: Skoler og lærere. Til gengæld har man rigeligt med analfabeter, men heldigvis også rigeligt med ivrige og lærevillige elever, børn såvel som voksne – og så dropper man for resten arabisk for engelsk.
YEI, 4 September 2012 (IRIN): Five decades of war and upheaval (uro) in South Sudan has had an inevitable impact on education – almost three-quarters of adults (voksne) in the world’s newest country are unable to read or write.
A recent report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) holds that less than 2 percent of the population has completed a primary school (grundskole) education.
“South Sudan is believed to have the worst literacy rate in the world, worse than Mali and Niger, which were the only ones close. Adult literacy (antallet af voksne, der kan læse og skrive) currently sits at 27 percent, according to the latest statistics we have from 2009,” said Jessica Hjarrand.
She is an education specialist at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
A 2005 peace deal paved the way for South Sudan to secede (løsrive sig) from the north in July 2011. The country has since struggled to build an education system for its young and to educate the millions of adults who missed out on school during the war.
“There are not enough schools. There are certainly not enough teachers. Most of the teachers in South Sudan are primary school leavers”, said Hjarrand
As a result, the quality of instruction is poor, Hjarrand continued:
“They do not know how to manage a classroom. They do not know how to manage people with different needs in the classroom, let alone the content area and the skills you are supposed to be passing down through education.”
Michael Adier Kuol, headmaster of Lomuku Primary School in Yei, a town in Central Equatoria State, concurred (samtykkede): “In the school where I’m teaching now, there are around 16 teachers, and all of them are untrained.”
Complicating matters is the fact that South Sudan has decided to switch from offering instruction in Arabic, which is associated with the north, to teaching in English – a challenge for most teachers and students.
Many education experts believe that children should first become literate in their mother tongues.
“But it is very difficult to do when you have got something like, I think, 66 languages in South Sudan, to have to develop materials for each of those languages,” Hjarrand said.
Keeping up with demand
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