Traditional Schools in the Education of Children in Sierra Leone
- A child’s education has long been a top priority for parents.
- Children from Sierra Leone used to receive training from the Themnes,
- Kpa Mendes, Sherbros, and Konos in the Poro and Bondo Secret Societies.
- These covert organisations were crucial to the child’s overall development.
- Both secret societies were organisations for higher study as well as social and educational institutions that supported the maintenance of societal norms and values.
- History demonstrates that children were not educated in regular schools.
- Without teaching them any skills, parents either put their kids to work as craftsmen or in farms.
- Following the entrance of former slaves in the colony in the eighteenth century, formal schooling was first introduced.
- This has resulted in significant changes in the country’s educational system.
The time has come for online universities to accept this new breed of professors.
A long-standing practise that has mostly not changed throughout time includes traditional college education.
A college professor is someone who is an authority on their field, is most likely to be appointed to a job with tenure,
and performs both the duties of an educator and a researcher.
It is anticipated that they will be acknowledged as authors in peer-reviewed academic journal publications that have advanced
their field of study.
Another academic institution, an online college or university,has been developed while this type of instruction and instructor are still in use.
A new type of educator that can cater to the demands of students who take part in this contemporary form of education
is what is required now more than ever.
The time has come for online universities to accept this new breed of professors, known as Modern Educators.
Universities and Society
Higher education institutions and the system of which they are a part face a number of previously unimaginable problems
from social factors that have an impact on and are impacted by these institutions and their communities of students and educators.
Sweeping demographic changes, declining provincial budgets, revolutionary information and communications technology advancements,
globalisation, competition from new educational providers, market pressures to shape educational and scholarly practises
toward profit-driven ends, and rising demands and pressures for fundamental changes in public policy and public accountability
regarding the role of higher education in addressing urgent issues are some of these forces.