The Build Education Back Better (BEBB) initiative seeks to build early insights from the ground and lived experiences of the partners in Kenya and South Africa on what works or does not work in education innovation during and post COVID-19, with a focus on Whole Child Development (WCD).
The initiative’s long-term goal is: Education systems prioritise, promote, and integrate WCD approaches and pedagogy that respond to the needs of vulnerable children during and post COVID-19.
The WCD approach sees education as a holistic, developmental process that encompasses all aspects of the child’s development – physical, social, emotional and academic – with the active engagement and support of the community. The approach recognises that all children, particularly those who have experienced tremendous hardship, need to acquire information, skills, experience and fundamental values that will enable them to participate as productive and ethical citizens in their communities and throughout the world.
Theme 1: Exploratory study of the perceptions of spirituality and values in schools in Kenya
This group conducted an exploratory study whose main objective was to investigate stakeholders’ perceptions of spirituality and values in the primary school setting in Kenya. It also developed content for a blog site that could engage the wider population in discussions on spirituality and values.
Theme 2: Role modelling as an approach to inculcate values
This piece of work is shaped as what is known as a “content Bible” in TV speak. It explores role modelling through behaviour of characters in a proposed TV programme.
Theme 3 and 4: Policies made simple with a focus on whole child development, Education and rights in Kenya
This group focused on making educational policies into infographics to make it easier for schools and education professionals to understand and implement the critical elements of the those policies.
This theme explored a gender analysis outline that provides a guideline for the type of considerations and questions that need to be considered in educational contexts.
