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Value-based water education project in Ghana
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Michael TsiagbeyThe paper reports on a Value-Based Water Education (VBWE) project implemented to develop a new water-use ethic in
Ghana and some other African cities. The overall goal of the project is to facilitate changes in behaviour and personal
attitudes among water consumers and to promote better understanding of the environment in a water context. The project
implementation strategies among others include collaborative adaptation of existing educational material (curriculum) to
incorporate VBWE, training of formal and non-formal educators to form a core of trainers in VBWE; and integration of
universal values with those of early childhood peer group values. The project had organized workshops, prepared an action
plan, trained teachers, developed a teaching manual, carried out internal monitoring and on-the-job training of teachers.
Lessons from the project included the realization that all the project implementers should have a basic understanding of
human values; education is a process and regular monitoring is imperative for project success. The project will expand
to cover all schools in Ghana, integrate the VBWE into the school curriculum, establish water classrooms, conduct water
audits and water quality education in the schools.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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WEDC ConferenceCitation
TSIAGBEY, M., 2004. Value-based water education project in Ghana. IN: Godfrey, S. (ed). People-centred approaches to water and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 30th WEDC International Conference, Vientiane, Laos, 25-29 October 2004, pp. 319-321.Publisher
© WEDC, Loughborough UniversityVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
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This is a conference paper.Other identifier
WEDC_ID:12965Language
- en
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