In some countries around the world, such as Egypt, Kenya, and Romania, the education system is examination-oriented, meaning that test scores, rather than learning, become the ultimate goal of education.
According to a report of the International Journal for Innovation Education and Research, this ultimately distorts students’ motivation and learning, by overstressing the importance of exam results as a measure of students’ abilities. At its worst, an examination-oriented education system can stifle many students’ imagination, creativity, and sense of self, hindering their success in and out of the classroom.
A Million Faces-Renaissance is a nonprofit that aims to introduce alternative forms of education for youth. (Photo courtesy of A Million Faces-Renaissance)
But through her nonprofit A Million Faces-Renaissance, 25-year-old Dorcus Odera is a young woman ardently fighting to change the Kenyan education system’s focus on exams. She is doing so by seeking to identify children’s greatest abilities and cultivating those to discover the peculiar bent of the genius in each through education.
A Kenyan living in Nairobi, Dorcus decided to create A Million Faces-Renaissance due to her own negative educational experiences. For her, the Kenyan education system lost its value to empower and only subjected students to an education where success was defined by grades, not the impact created with the knowledge acquired.
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