Educationist, Roberta Emma Amos-Abanyie, has said there is nothing wrong with the depiction of the head in a Class One science book as part of the human body used for carrying objects.

She said for a class one pupil, the illustration is quite appropriate.

“Genuinely coming from a background of a teacher, I think what [Mr Quarm] was drawing attention to is we teach children from known to unknown where we try to show them what is in the environment to what is not in the environment.

“So basically when you go to the traffic light, you see people carrying things on their head, which is the picture [the author] is drawing the attention of the class one child to,” Roberta said.

She spoke on PM Express news analysis programme Tuesday.

She however notes that use of Jolly Phonics in schools can improve teaching of children at the lower primary level.

Jolly Phonics is a fun and child centred approach to teaching literacy through synthetic phonics. Sounds for letters are taught in a specific order – not alphabetically – to enable children to begin building words as early as possible.

Roberta has been teaching adults and children with reading challenges with Jolly Phonics for several years. She has over sixteen years of teaching experience in both the public and private sectors of education in Ghana.

Watch the her description of how Jolly Phonics is taught in schools and her views about education in Ghana in video below.

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