After 6 months in Nigeria it is time to go home for a short visit. 16 days of full fat milk, cheese and yoghurt, but also 16 days of meeting friends and family, but also visiting two of my old schools. Stedelijk Dalton at Zutphen and Pallas Athene college at Ede. I wanted to get some answers to questions I have about learning attitude and teaching. The most important question is: What makes that children in The Netherlands are more involved in learning than the Nigerian pupils? Is this something cultural or does it have to do with the attitudes of teachers?
A small comparison:
Why do teachers in Nigeria use corporal punishment while scientific proof says that pupils who feel unsafe cannot learn? Do the teachers use corporal punishment because they don’t know better? Do they use it because their education was not complete enough with psychology and sociology? So in the next 2 years I will try to find answers to these questions. You can say; this is my case study during my VSO placement in Nigeria.
