Category: Education

Builders or Bystanders? Three Strategic Scenarios for Botswana’s STEM Future

by sheilasingapore

Your thinking is incisive — and it touches a painful global fault line. ✳️ Introductory Paragraph: The world is not waiting. Nations are restructuring their economies, education systems, and regulatory frameworks to meet the demands of an AI-powered, STEM-led global future. That shift was happening as far back as 200 years ago. In the span … Continue reading Builders or Bystanders? Three Strategic Scenarios for Botswana’s STEM Future

When the World Speaks … Africa & STEM

by sheilasingapore

The essay explores Africa’s complex relationship with STEM, differentiated into four voices: stewardship, obedience, reactive, and restorative. The stewardship voice reflects Africa’s historical contributions to STEM, while the obedience voice signifies colonial influences that framed STEM as foreign. The reactive voice depicts contemporary fears rooted in this colonial legacy, whereas the restorative voice emphasizes reclaiming and celebrating indigenous knowledge and innovations. The essay argues that Africa can redefine its STEM identity by recognizing historical legacies, enhancing education, and fostering local innovation to reclaim leadership in global STEM discourse.

National Article 14: What is the right answer?

by sheilasingapore

Focussing on how one teaches or how one learns?  Can one exclude the other?  Which would lead the other within the school system? When a student shows he has understood (by his grades) what the teacher has taught him, would that mean he is learning? Would that mean should the teacher stop teaching (such as … Continue reading National Article 14: What is the right answer?

National Article 5: Is life one big party … and then four days of study? When do we learn? Or did the dead cat just killed our curiosity?

by sheilasingapore

“What would it take to see the levels of education in the country rise without having the need to set standards (and the government having to invest in) for it?” Hmm …. have we thought of this question?  As a country? To appreciate the question, first we will need to find out what is causing … Continue reading National Article 5: Is life one big party … and then four days of study? When do we learn? Or did the dead cat just killed our curiosity?