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"Self-Diversity"- an Integrated Primary and Secondary Curriculum for a sustainable world
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Why? All education systems have been developed for separate entities (countries, cultures, religions, genders, professions, etc.).
Consequently...
- 1st order of consequences: Individuals do not have the abilities to engage constructively with diversity, changes and differences.
- 2nd order of consequences: Individuals avoid to differentiate (i) the ethical from the unethical, (ii) facts from interpretations.
- 3rd order of consequences: Individuals tend to embrace anger, violence, populism, corruption, and denial in an effort to feel “secure” and therefore escape responsibility.
- 4th order of consequences: Structural changes (forms of governance, economic systems), are unable to address the problems of our era because citizens are not willing to take responsibility. responsibility being the very essence of any form of “working” governance. Responsible citizens need the abilities to envision the meaning of sustainability and the art to reach it.
- 5th order of consequences: our justice systems are unable to address the complexity of a diverse world using monochromatic standards. Ethical justice is loosing the fight because the foundation of its success, ethical care, is out of reach.
A Path forward
Beyond the standard Curriculum (literary, mathematical, science, history, arts, sports, etc.), it is urgent that all individuals are given the ability to engage constructively with diversity, changes, and differences.
The training to reach this was developed 35 years ago by the Swiss Development Cooperation. It further grew into a program called “Self-Diversity” or “EigenVielfalt” as it was developed and implemented in Canada and Germany.
Our Proposal
We offer your charity the opportunity to introduce this program in Ghana by supporting the "Young and Lonely Foundation” in Agona Swedru, Ghana. [(https://youngandlonely.org/)].
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Note:
The Ghanaian Self-Diversity Curriculum (Akoma) is a Kindergarten-to-Grade-9 program designed to help students build confidence, resilience, emotional self-awareness, collaboration skills, adaptability, and constructive engagement with diversity, differences, and change. Through simulations and experiential learning, students develop socio-psychological life-skills that prepare them for an increasingly complex and interconnected world.
About us. We are two Ph.D biologists (lead of Kayakayo and IDRG) working in regenerative agriculture and human ethology. We received our Self-Diversity training from the Swiss government, which we implemented for seven years in Madagascar and West Africa while carrying out our work in sustainable agriculture. We later conducted Self-Diversity training programs in Canada and Germany (Teachers, Executives, police force, civil servants, etc.), as we realized the depth of the societal need to engage constructively with diversity, change and differences. The Ghanaian "Akoma" project emerged from this.
Dr. Jacques Drolet & Dr. Imme Gerke
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