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I share the scepticism of Jide and Noel. Corruption is a symtom , not a disease. It is a symptom of institutional failure/fragility in developing countries. In medicine, you create curriculum for the disease, not the symptoms.
Corruption can be taught as a course or sub course under Comparative Politics, Politics of Developing Areas, Nigerian Government and Politics etc.
Femi OtubanjoAll new insights from left and right BUT:
I am under the impression that we teach values up until the age of 15 or thereabout using the institutions of the families, kinship, church, elementary schools and similar agencies.
Thereafter the rest is punishment, meted by the state and units of power. Human beings respond to incentives, which must include sanctions and rewards.
If Jonathan and Saraki steal, what can the professor at UI teaches about corruption that will have any impact?
TF
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/USAAfricaDialogue From: Noel Ihebuzor <noel.ihebuzor@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, May 4, 2018 at 3:17 AM
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Thanks for this.
My immediate reaction is this - one curriculum too many? Creating a new curriculum each time we are confronted with a new problem is a recipe for overloading the school curriculum. Such an approach runs the risk of producing severe negative consequences on educational outcomes in all three domains of education.
Fish shortage? Create a fishing curriculum. Nepotism in appointments in the public service? Create an anti-nepotism curriculum. Indiscipline in society? Create a curriculum called WAI! Such an incrementalist additive approach to curriculum is usually the death of rational curriculum planning. It can also be addictive!
You touch on a more realistic way forward here
There already exist competing subjects such as civics and social studies, which seek to inculcate accountability issues in one form or another; however, the exciting idea of anti corruption studies represents a more focused and direct approach to a societal problem. In doing this, we should not assume for a moment that the new curriculum is a cure-all to the problem of corruption.
But then, you fail to deepen any reflection of the benefits of such an adaptive model as you heap praises on this new curriculum approach you now canvas as representing an "exciting idea" and one that is a more focused and direct approach to a societal problem". I am sure you must have your evidence for making such powerful claims.
Secondly, some things are not taught, they are caught and the conduct of a significant number Nigerians in their private and public lives in both the public and private sectors are replete with behaviors which reflect and incentivize corruption. When the behavior of those who claim to fight corruption is at variance with their verbalizations and posturings, credibility is eroded. The larger public watches and notices such a disconnect and experiences social and emotional dissonance as a consequence. In the end, and sadly, the modeling model of learning triumphs and new recruits and entrants soon outperform those they learned from.
I do not think another school subject is needed. I believe that Values Education with anti-corruption as an exemplar can be infused into a significant number of our current curriculum offerings - (maths, Literature, sciences, social studies, GS, for example) and its key messages transmitted through an active learner-centered pedagogy that invites and incites reflection and engagement.
Noel
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Subject: THE PROPOSED UNIVE
THE PROPOSED UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM ON ANTI CORRUPTION STUDIES
AYO OLUKOTUN.
"In terms of corruption, Nigeria has a reputation for very massive corruption. The President (Buhari) has been able to cut that down very substantially, we talked about it; he is working on it and they have made a lot of progress and I think they will continue to make a lot of progress" United States President, President Donald Trump. The Punch, Tuesday May 1, 2018.
Raging domestic contentions about its lopsided character notwithstanding, there is a steady globalization of President Muhammadu Buhari's image as an anti corruption fighter and crusader. Well before Trump's recognition of Buhari's reformist role, as quoted in the opening paragragh, the African Union, in July last year, at its 29th Ordinary Session, unanimously endorsed Buhari as its anti corruption Champion.
Given this background, it is of interest that the Nationàl University Commission, under the stimulus of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is planning to introduce anti corruption studies into the curriculum of our universities. That laudable plan, if well implemented, will build upon best practises in developing democracies around the globe, especially in post communist countries, Asia and the Middle East, where such policies have been introduced, and in some cases followed through. For as critics of Buhari's anti corruption policies pointed out, in countries like Nigeria, where corruption have become endemic and systemic, it cannot be rooted out by campaigns which have the character of a bull in a china shop.
This is another way of saying that, up till now, there is no anti corruption policy, properly so called in place, only random twitches, activities on the hoof and knee jerk responses. Perhaps the new curriculum will begin the process of converting contingent reactions into identifiable policies which offer more than a short life span for tackling corruption. In the same manner as the victims of an ideological war premised on terror and radical religion cannot be rehabilitated by freeing them from Boko Haram or ISIS, a corrupt society is not liberated by simple jailing or detaining a few corrupt persons.
NUC's proposed curriculum is best viewed as the ideological window through which the hearts and minds of youths who have grown up in a decadent society can be won over and reorientated. Considering the importance of the proposed "green book" of the anti graft war, it is necessary to reflect upon it. Preliminarily, it is doubtful whether the curriculum should not have been introduced much earlier than the university stage of our youth's education. The principle of catching them young, should have taught the expedient of commencing anti corruption and accountability studies at the primary and secondary school stages, for it is at these formative stages that the minds of our youths can be maximally impacted with ethical and integrity lessons.
It will be better, therefore, if the NUC's plan is coordinated with the authorities of basic and primary education, producing thereby a curriculum that is begun early in life and terminates with tertiary education. There already exist competing subjects such as civics and social studies, which seek to inculcate accountability issues in one form or another; however, the exciting idea of anti corruption studies represents a more focused and direct approach to a societal problem. In doing this, we should not assume for a moment that the new curriculum is a cure-all to the problem of corruption. No; it is just one more policy tool in a tool kit containing several approaches to tackling a structural problem. For example, there must be a fit at some level between real life and what is taught in the class room. If they diverge too much, then real learning may well be taking place outside of the classroom. Contradictions not withstanding, there is merit in the proposal to root the anti corruption fight in ideological and educational anchors. Before proceeding further with the discourse, this writer asks the readers to indulge a short take.
The jury is still out on what the gains of the much publicised trip of Buhari to the White House are likely to be. Of course, the administration's publicists and members of the Buhari Support Group , who also came along with the President, already have their own lists of projected gains. On balance however, it is much too early to set any real store by the diplomatic visit, apart from its glitz and glamour.
Most diplomatic events, carry more than a fair share of sweet nothings; like words and promises made to lovers at parties the night before, they may not amount to much the morning after. As the possibly pseudonymous Chidi Opara wrote on USA Africa dialogue on Tuesday " So, it is an achievement in Nigeria if the President meets another country's President and did not say something embarrassing?" This captures the blandness of it all, and the possibility that Nigeria, unless it gets its act together will continue to remain to the Right Wing in America, where Trump belongs, a marginal actor in world affairs, a disappearing country which nonetheless comes to play as a ready market for the United States military industrial complex. The fundamental truth is that no country will develop another country free of charge, unless it has fundamental strategic reasons for partnering with it.
So, the battle to build and develop Nigeria is still very much at home, as the juxtaposing of the demonstrations and nation wide protests against the savage killings in central Nigeria, with the limelight provided for Buhari by the visit readily shows. At the end of the day, the solutions that we need, and that seem to elude us are in Nigeria and not in Washington.
To return to the initial discourse, the anti graft curriculum proposed by the NUC is a potent reminder that the anti corruption struggle took off without a clear road map, without a red or green book and without much thought for sustainability. It was born, like much of the change rhetoric, as an electoral gimmick capable of delivering the vote in a nation weary of the daring swindles of the power elite.
Its sketchy character not withstanding, it is a tribute to Buhari that he is able to command national and global attention by insisting that there must be retribution for those who have stolen the country blind, even if his list of alleged looters is far from comprehensive. Ideally, we ought to have a vanguard as well as a rear guard for such an undertaking, but it is a hopelessly undermanned project, given that only a few brave souls in the administration have signed unto it.
Thinking about an anti corruption curriculum offers new vistas for restarting and re-imagining the moral rebirth of a nation gone askew. As stated previously, the federal government as well as state authorities should buy in to the curriculum innovation and give it concrete shape .This will involve the production of educational material on a large scale, the training of teachers as well as trainning the trainners. Apart from these, we ought to be seeking ways to close the gaps in policy making by yoking anti corruption to a whole range of issues such as the overhaul of judicial institutions, poverty alleviation, social security and crime prevention.
Prof Olukotun is the Oba(Dr.) Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair of Governance at the Department of Political Science, Olabisi Onabanjo University. Ago Iwoye, Ogun State.
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