Manifesto: Prefect and School Elections Guidelines
SCHOOL ELECTIONS - guidelines
Pedagogic In-Service Training Programme
ISTP
CBC PCC EED DED
School elections – guidelines. 2009. UNAFAS & ISTP.
UNAFAS, BP 307, Yaoundé. Cameroon. www.unafas.org ISTP, BP 5105, Bamenda. Cameroon. With support from the British High Commission, Yaoundé. Cameroon.
School elections guidelines
Preface
Elections are the process of choosing a person or a group of people for a position, usually by voting. The election process builds leadership and social skills in students, it provides opportunity to build values of fairness, justice and responsibility, as well as understanding and experience of a democratic process which is centred on citizenship education. It is for these reasons that The Education Board of the Cameroon Baptist Convention (CBC) and The Presbyterian Education Authority of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (PCC) have produced guidelines for good practice in the running of school elections in their schools. It fits CBC and PCC’s goal to enhance learneroriented teaching and learning strategies, teaching for liberation that will enable learners to cope with the challenges of our rapidly changing world. School elections are an opportunity for learning and teaching through practice, skills that will serve as foundations for student’s personal and professional development and enable our young people to build a successful society for themselves. These guidelines were produced using a participatory approach – 34 schools were surveyed, to understand current practices, reasons for using these, advantages, disadvantages, and suggestions for change: 124 school administrators, 124 teachers, 240 students and 120 prefects contributed, from Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, government and lay private schools. Students said what they had learned from having elections in schools – good and bad things. This enabled us to come out with a framework of modern, standardised guidelines, codes of conduct, background information
Pedagogic In-Service Training Programme
ISTP
CBC PCC EED DED
School elections – guidelines. 2009. UNAFAS & ISTP.
UNAFAS, BP 307, Yaoundé. Cameroon. www.unafas.org ISTP, BP 5105, Bamenda. Cameroon. With support from the British High Commission, Yaoundé. Cameroon.
School elections guidelines
Preface
Elections are the process of choosing a person or a group of people for a position, usually by voting. The election process builds leadership and social skills in students, it provides opportunity to build values of fairness, justice and responsibility, as well as understanding and experience of a democratic process which is centred on citizenship education. It is for these reasons that The Education Board of the Cameroon Baptist Convention (CBC) and The Presbyterian Education Authority of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (PCC) have produced guidelines for good practice in the running of school elections in their schools. It fits CBC and PCC’s goal to enhance learneroriented teaching and learning strategies, teaching for liberation that will enable learners to cope with the challenges of our rapidly changing world. School elections are an opportunity for learning and teaching through practice, skills that will serve as foundations for student’s personal and professional development and enable our young people to build a successful society for themselves. These guidelines were produced using a participatory approach – 34 schools were surveyed, to understand current practices, reasons for using these, advantages, disadvantages, and suggestions for change: 124 school administrators, 124 teachers, 240 students and 120 prefects contributed, from Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, government and lay private schools. Students said what they had learned from having elections in schools – good and bad things. This enabled us to come out with a framework of modern, standardised guidelines, codes of conduct, background information