Providing Learning Solutions in our Community by Isah Ibn Mohammed
1. Providing Learning Solutions In Our
Community
RCE-Minna Doing It Differently
(RCE-Minna-Did) Model
6TH AFRICAN REGIONAL CENTRE OF EXPERTISE CONFERENCE
Nairobi-Kenya
24th-26th August, 2016
Isah Ibn Mohammed
RCE MINNA, Nigeria
2. Presentation outline
i. About RCE Minna
ii. Opening
iii. DID Model; An Overview
iv. Projects this Year Alone
v. Impact of the DID Model
vi. Recommendations
vii. Closing
3. •Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
is a dynamic concept that encompasses a new
vision of education that seeks to empower
people of all ages to assume responsibility for
creating and enjoying a sustainable future.
(UNU-IAS)
4. About RCE Minna
• The Regional Centre of
Expertise (RCE) Minna was
acknowledged in November,
2011 by the UNU-IAS.
• RCE Minna Vision
• A populace educated in the
importance of Sustainable
Development and how it can
contribute to a sustainable and
holistically wealthier society.
5. 1. Opening
•Schools provide the foundation of good education,
they also provide social-infrastructure to students to
put them in tune with 21st Century-methods of
learning revolving around core-curriculum while
neglecting a very important aspect of learning;
informal and non-formal education. And for this
reason, learning becomes quite difficult for some
students who ache for other forms of learning aside
the rigour of the paper and pen.
6. •We always try to stay within the “safe-fence”
the conventional-syllabus; the convenient-
classroom delivery which haven’t brought us
great results in a variety of spheres. Without
doing-things-differently in technology,
communication, etc… where would we be
today?
7. 2. Doing it Differently Model (DIDM)
• Doing-It-Differently’ Model
adopted from Foundation for
African Arts and Letters New
York through IBBU Center for
Learning Communities,; simply
puts the student in the center-
stage employing non-formal
educational programs and creating
learning environment outside the
classroom to blend classroom
work, hinging on the major thrust
of ESD
• RCE Minna-DIDM will meet the
needs of students in our community
who ache for other forms of
learning aside the rigor of the class
room. This will help development
the students knowledge on
different subject matters by so
doing, we deliver the ESD to
people and support the
realization of the four major
thrusts of the ESD as identified
in Chapter 36 of Agenda 21; we
are;
8. • The promotion and improvement of basic
education
•Reorienting existing education at all levels to address
sustainable development
•Developing public understanding and awareness of
sustainability
•Training and re-training
9. Major Thrust
•The Regional Center of Expertise (RCE
Minna) is founded to contribute to these
efforts and to mobilize formal and
non-formal sectors to deliver the ESD
to the people in our community.
21. 4.0 Impact of the DID Model
• Developing understanding and awareness of high school students and young
people as regards Education for sustainable development (ESD) and SDGs
• Organize out-of-class activities that enhanced intellectual discourse and
collective problem solving among high school students and young people in
general.
• Redistribution of students’ time and learning experiences and to initiate
communities among students, among students and teachers.
• Enhancing the Value of Classroom Experiences
22. 4.1 Impact of the DID Model (Cont..)
• Bringing RCE activities closer to high school students and young people
general
• To arise high school students interest on environmental issues so that
they can draw their curiosity and intelligence to enable them take
independent initiatives towards sustainable environmental solutions
within their own networks.
• One crucial benefit of DIDM is the creation of social network amongst
students. Student from different schools within our community, with
different background, different thinking and perception of life will be
able to share knowledge, make new acquaintances, friendships and
contacts within their community and forms active networks to take
responsibility in their immediate environment.
23. 5.0 Recommendations
• Studies show that the way we learn doesn’t always match up with the way we are
taught. So, if we hope to give high school students another avenue to lifelong
learning, there is the need to employ new forms of teaching and learning, such a
model, the RCE Minna DIDM brings to fore inline with ESD and SDG goal 4,
which stresses non formal education.
• RCEs across the continent must crowd source young people to play active role in
institutionalizing ESD across local communities through enhanced and practical
awareness creation on sustainable development.
• Going forward, we suggest that RCE Youth Networks across RCE Regions take
queue from RCE Minna DIDM and initiative learning communities to enable high
school students and young people in general learn and have fun.
24. 6.0 Closing
• “Our continents hope is blurred by citizens’ inheritances of
fractured leadership in all spheres, particularly in education but
one way we can stop our spirits from being continually
amputated is to take on the eagle wings. Because the rains
continue to threaten, we should in good counsel take our
option of flight and soar above the clouds, rise past a looming
drenched and dripping future. Let’s go beyond our classrooms
& our campuses. Let’s be the change that we want”.
• (Osita Aniemeka, 2010).
