John Rutayisire on Teaching Rwandan Students Self-Reliance
John Rutayisire is a Rwandan educator who has
taught in Uganda , Lesotho and Botswana. Rutayisire is currently the
Director of the National Curriculum Development Centre in Rwanda, where
he leads policy development in curriculum, textbooks, language in
Education, and most recently has been appointed Chairperson of the
Teacher Development and Management Policy. In this video clip,
Rutayisire talks about the importance of teaching self-reliance to
Rwandan students, based on lessons learned from their recent history.
Transcript:
"The international community could have done
much better than it did in terms of stopping the genocide. They didn't.
And we have learned a lesson from it. At the curriculum and government
level, we learned that Rwandan children must learn that they need to do
something about their lives as they grow up, and not to expect that
somebody somewhere will come to save them, so the issue of
self-reliance in the curriculum; the whole issue of 'I can do it' in
the curriculum is part of the whole process of developing an individual
who later on as an adult will learn to deal with their problem first
before they turn their eye to somebody else in the international
community."
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Video length:
00 min 49 sec
Date filmed:
Jul 15 2004 
