Ethiopian School Art
Dec 16, 2008 Africa, Education, Ethiopia, Innovation, Travel
I have seen many primary schools now in Africa and I was blown away by the primary schools I saw in Tigray in Northern, Ethiopia. In a very resource limited environment, these schools have turned to using paintings on all available school walls (both inside and outside of the classroom) as a teaching tool. In the Ethiopian school system, each school has a small pedagogical center and a teacher assigned to it. One of this person’s roles is to help oversee the development of these paintings. I think these are wonderful and changes the learning environment. I wish my school looked like this as a kid. It would be great to see more schools across Africa use a little paint to help overcome some of their challenging resource constraints.
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