Precious Bonsu: Re-imagining the Learning Environment, A Masterclass in Early Childhood Education

Change Africa Podcast

German-born Ghanaian Precious Bonsu is a gifted and celebrated teaching and learning expert . She is also a communication consultant, author, publisher, and serial entrepreneur. Precious is on a mission to provide platforms that help children from varying socio-economic backgrounds access high standards of life and success through sustainable and equitable education.

In this episode, Precious diagnoses the challenges with the Ghanaian education system, identifying the standardisation and en-masse production of compliant students as critical components in stifling their limitless potential. She addresses the need for a holistic transformation of the educational environment for children into an immersive learning space. Finally, we discuss the unique attributes of her school, WITS school, which models the Finnish Education system that helps identify and groom students' natural inclinations to blossom and acquire transversal skills towards preparing them for any global environment.

Precious shares with us her passion for writing children's books. She laments the absence of books, particularly those which mirror children's surrounding environments and highlights the importance of reading in children's upbringing.

Join us for an in-depth discussion about how to educate children for success in an attention-constraint world.

Show Notes:

00:01:28 - WITS School and The Whale Learning Group

00:03:50 - Growing up in Germany and having early influences

00:06:35 - Issues with the Ghanaian Education System

00:10:10 - Theory of Levels of Intelligence

00:13:42 - Identifying intelligence at an early stage

00:18:40 - Transferring and applying knowledge through transversal skills

00:23:10 - The problem with our reading culture

00:26:00 - Teaching through the creation of a creative, stimulating learning environment.

00:28:20 - The three ways through which learning happens.

01:03:00 - The Finnish Education System

01:19:00 - Standardising Intelligence

01:20:00 - The hardest thing for children to learn

01:24: 08 - Managing Children with Special Needs/Gifted Children

01:30:10 - Steps to Take towards scaling holistic education across the country

01:36:44 - Mudding as a tool for stimulation.

01:39:44 - The need to move learning from the abstract to industry.

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