Story: Fauziatu Adam
A RENOWNED Ghanaian motivational speaker, Mr Emmanuel Dei Tumi, has called on the government to make the active involvement of the youth at all levels of decision and policy-making processes a priority, to enable the youth contribute effectively to national development.
"Today, evidence abound as to the enormous potential of the youth that could be harnessed for economic development of the country, but to do so will require a robust and complete paradigm shift that would usher in a new era of focused and very deliberate and strategic policy initiatives to appraise the active training and deployment of the youth for our national development," he added.
Mr Dei Tumi made this call at the celebration of the 2011 World Home Economics Day celebration in Accra dubbed "Harnessing the Energies of the Youth into Productive Ventures- the Role of the Home Economist".
The occasion, which was organised by the Ghana Home Economics Association (GHEA), brought together members of the association, teachers and students of home economics from some selected schools in Accra.
Mr Dei Tumi, who is also the founder of Future Leaders Group, said the future confronting the youth today could not be addressed with the same old traditional plans of thinking.
"They will require bold and out-of-box thinking and initiatives from the government and the citizenry to review, revamp, and align our educational curricula to include skills that are productively relevant to the needs of society and which has the capacity to guarantee the proper integration of our youth in today's challenging world," he added.
He said education was a process of teaching the youth how to think and not just the mere acquisition of knowledge.
"It should teach us how to develop our minds to bring fresh ideas to the discussion table to help solve old perennial problems of our days and not just memorise and strive to reproduce the ideas of others because they worked in the past," he noted.
He debunked the assertion that home economics was a preserve of the girl-child and it was there to prepare women for motherhood and homemaking.
"On the contrary, home economics offers broad spectrum of career opportunities both in public and private education, business, social service, journalism and institutional management. As various professional fields legitimise specific knowledge and talents, home economics students can also carve a place for themselves outside the domestic sphere," he stated.
The President of GHEA, Mrs Veronica Ama Jackson, observed that the number of male students offering home economics courses was not encouraging.
He noted that students with poor grades were pushed to offer the course which gave teachers a hard time trying to mould these students to make better grades.
She, therefore, called on Ghanaians to appreciate home economics as a course of study and desist form shunning away or discouraging their children form pursuing the course.
Most of the students who shared their views about the course called on GHEA to educate parents and teachers on the importance of home economics for them to appreciate the course for the development of the country.
A RENOWNED Ghanaian motivational speaker, Mr Emmanuel Dei Tumi, has called on the government to make the active involvement of the youth at all levels of decision and policy-making processes a priority, to enable the youth contribute effectively to national development.
"Today, evidence abound as to the enormous potential of the youth that could be harnessed for economic development of the country, but to do so will require a robust and complete paradigm shift that would usher in a new era of focused and very deliberate and strategic policy initiatives to appraise the active training and deployment of the youth for our national development," he added.
Mr Dei Tumi made this call at the celebration of the 2011 World Home Economics Day celebration in Accra dubbed "Harnessing the Energies of the Youth into Productive Ventures- the Role of the Home Economist".
The occasion, which was organised by the Ghana Home Economics Association (GHEA), brought together members of the association, teachers and students of home economics from some selected schools in Accra.
Mr Dei Tumi, who is also the founder of Future Leaders Group, said the future confronting the youth today could not be addressed with the same old traditional plans of thinking.
"They will require bold and out-of-box thinking and initiatives from the government and the citizenry to review, revamp, and align our educational curricula to include skills that are productively relevant to the needs of society and which has the capacity to guarantee the proper integration of our youth in today's challenging world," he added.
He said education was a process of teaching the youth how to think and not just the mere acquisition of knowledge.
"It should teach us how to develop our minds to bring fresh ideas to the discussion table to help solve old perennial problems of our days and not just memorise and strive to reproduce the ideas of others because they worked in the past," he noted.
He debunked the assertion that home economics was a preserve of the girl-child and it was there to prepare women for motherhood and homemaking.
"On the contrary, home economics offers broad spectrum of career opportunities both in public and private education, business, social service, journalism and institutional management. As various professional fields legitimise specific knowledge and talents, home economics students can also carve a place for themselves outside the domestic sphere," he stated.
The President of GHEA, Mrs Veronica Ama Jackson, observed that the number of male students offering home economics courses was not encouraging.
He noted that students with poor grades were pushed to offer the course which gave teachers a hard time trying to mould these students to make better grades.
She, therefore, called on Ghanaians to appreciate home economics as a course of study and desist form shunning away or discouraging their children form pursuing the course.
Most of the students who shared their views about the course called on GHEA to educate parents and teachers on the importance of home economics for them to appreciate the course for the development of the country.
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