Transparency International helps school promote good citizenship

HARAGA Primary School teachers have been given offered lessons aimed at helping teachers and students identify the functions and processes of civil society and state institutions.
Transparency International PNG (TIPNG) has developed a school-based civic education curriculum to promote the study of active citizenship and state institutions.
TIPNG’s civic education curriculum consist of teacher resource books, background reading for teachers and student readers, DVDs, an android phone application, posters and teacher trainings.
Executive director Arianne Kassman said all the materials contain elements and concepts of good governance, accountability, transparency and integrity. “Our civic education teacher training workshops have helped teachers to realise the suitability of these materials when used alongside other materials they already have,” she said.
Kassman said through their schoolbased civic education curriculum, they want children to learn their rights and responsibilities as citizens at an early age. “We want to contribute to instilling a higher level of integrity in students before they step into the real world,” Kassman said.
She said TIPNG signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Department of Education (NDoE) in 2015 forming a partnership to bring civic education to schools throughout Papua New Guinea.