CREATIVITY FOUNDATION OF AFRICA

(CREFA)

SELF-AWARENESS ORIENTATION MODEL FOR LEARNERS

(SOMOL)

A PARADIGM FOR INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE EDUCATION

DRNGALE

Founder

Dr Ilongo Fritz Ngale, a Cameroonian psychologist, counsellor, researcher, and creative writer.

Issues of education & careers

FUNDAMENTAL PREOCCUPATIONS:
  • We claim to teach and learners claim to learn
  • Do we know those we are teaching?
  • Do teachers know themselves?
  • Do the learners know themselves?
  • If the answers to these questions are NO, then who is teaching, who are we teaching, and are those we are teaching really learning
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Creative Education vs Traditional Education

SOMOL is a conceptual offshoot of ‘’Creative Education - DDV: SEE – Discover, Develop, Valorize Self-Employing Employers’’, published in 2018 by OutSkirts Press, US, by Dr. Ilongo Fritz Ngale. The book link is www.outskirtspress.com/CreativeEducationDDV.

Creative Education is an original educational model, paradigm, and theory which seeks to address the education and employment crises in the world in general and in Africa in particular. These crises are characterized by astronomical dropout rates of learners, spiraling unemployment, traditional underemployment and the new phenomenon of unemployability.

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Discovering Yourself

SOMOL is an acronym standing for; ‘Self-Awareness Orientation Model for Learners’. SOMOL aims to answer the question: ‘which learners are we educating?’ From experience, the ‘who’, that is, the uniqueness and differences of learners in terms of their specific intelligences, values, interests, personalities, and learning styles, are hardly ever addressed as a priori prerequisites for the selection, orientation, teaching, learning, assessment of learners, and curriculum design for education programs.

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Integrated Teaching-Learning, Curricula Design, & Assessment Processes

Teaching-Learning Approaches – Trunk of Creative Education Tree Six Phases of Multi-Sensory & Multi-Faculty Integration

The following are premises of the six phases of multi-sensory and multi-faculty integration in SOMOL

Phase 1

The six phases for multi-sensory and multi-faculty integration are related to six Afrocentric teaching-learning processes; folktales (reception-perception), recitation and singing (description-expression)

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Phase 2

Folktales, singing, riddles, dancing, games, and proverbs are mediators and facilitators for enhancing information processing, consciousness building, mental processes, and behavior transformation

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Phase 3

The six ‘Afrocentric prisms’ are vectors through which knowledge or understanding of information is translated into action for ‘problem solving, mental, and behavioral transformation’

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Socio-Professional Skills & Policy Reforms

SOMOL Socio-Professional Skills and Outcomes

  • Philosophical-Social Ideals - Ubuntu

Ubuntu according to Johann Broodryk (2006) is a Zulu word signifying ‘humanness’. The following are some Ubuntu personality values (Broodryk, 2006): togetherness (umoya), brotherhood (ubuzalwane), equality (ukulingana)

  • Maximal interactions– Interpersonal

As earlier said, when the Creator discovers, develops and valorizes his/her ontogenetic potentials, he/she is galvanized by the highest transpersonal ideals which are accompanied by unconditional love for each and all

  • Maximal individuation - Intrapersonal

The Creator’s discovery, development and valorization of his/her ontogenetic potentials generate meaningfulness and liberate the creativity force, through which the former ‘feels, speaks, thinks and acts constructively’.

  • Willfulness – Maximal Positive Intention and Poise

Willfulness is the creative force resulting from the union of knowing (discovering the Creator’s ontogenetic potentials) and being (Creator’s preserved energy). Willfulness through maximal individuation, mindfulness, and thoughtfulness

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