Midwest Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society{CIES}

Reflecting back to the conference, I was much impressed by the presentation of Dr. Lee about Teachers and Teacher Education and especially the topic Teachers of minorities as Agents of change: I think the topic concerns us a lot as future leaders and the presenter focus on the role a teacher does to make change. She said a teacher can contribute a lot in peace building and especially women teachers can lead or teach well, she added that a qualify teacher can act as agent of change firstly by making the change in him/herself and become an advocacy, secondly he can make change on students academic success and in educational system whereby he can make the school as a place of transformation and make appropriate changes in the curriculum that fits the school. So I feel like the presentation was done for the 14 of us to be the agents of change in south Sudan after completing our Masters program and take the knowledge and skills we are going to obtain. So ladies don’t you think we can be the change makers of South Sudan beside all the challenges we will face?     

How to develop South Sudan history curriculum.

History is what makes us understand about people and open our minds to different possibility. According to my suggestion I think we should use the balance approach of which we don’t teach everything, the students will get some of the information from their community perspectives while the role of school is to plant in their minds the heart of togetherness {we are the same} by focusing on the political development and welfare of the country and excluding the parts of war {conflicts} and the things that focus most on division which may again cause tribal prejudice then we teach them the effects of violence.

We can use examples from other countries to show them how to live so as to develop their national identity also. Finally we should teach history for a common good and encourage our students to visit places like the museums and historical sites to learn more about the country. I don’t know how the idea of museum and historical sites will help in the development of South Sudan history curriculum.