MY CLASS AND I CONCEPT (MCI): CHANGING STRATEGY, CHANGING EDUCATION

Abstract

For almost two centuries of Nigeria’s exposure to Western education otherwise known as conventional education, the country is still battling to get its education comparable and acceptable to the world standard. Nigeria’s education standard is rated far below the world standard average. There is poor standard and quality of both teachers, teaching and needed resources, poor budget on education by the Governments, Educational policy somersault/unimplemented educational policies which suffers constant change with each change of Government, dilapidated school structures which are partially or ill-equipped, corruption with its attendant consequences etcetera, all add up to Nigeria’s education predicament. Several researches were conducted, solutions were suggested and action taken, yet, the situation is worsening by the day, the standard keep falling at an alarming rate, this poses serious threat to the system and made the researcher to search for a way out of this predicament; the MCI is one such concept which is assumed will provide a remedy for the fallout of our education standard, The work utilizes longitudinal research design that will last for about six years involving primary 1 pupils of a Government School in Kano, population size is 40 in a sampled class 1A. The researcher voluntarily adopts a peer-mentoring strategy to work with a permanent teacher of the school and plans to provide all the necessary resources for the class through improvisation and personal contribution from her income. Assessment will be conducted by making a comparison between the controlled and experimental groups at the end of every term and session to ascertain the efficiency/workability of the MCI concept in remedying the decayed educational quality and standard in Kano State and Nigeria at large, using mean average, standard deviation and t-tests. The findings at the end of every session will be discussed with the stakeholders to ascertain the workability or otherwise of the concept and involve/motivate others to adopt it. It is the researcher’s hope that the concept will gain recognition as a tool for fighting the peril of an age long substandard quality of education and become an adopted strategy throughout Kano state and beyond.