NCCE boss rejects claims that civic education has outlived its usefulness

The National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) has rejected claims that the institution has outlived its usefulness.

The Chairperson of the Commission, Kathleen Addy, who made the comments on TV3’s Hot Issues Sunday, September 15, 2024, indicated that advanced nations that held similar opinion and held on to it are now suffering the consequences.

According to her, the world is coming back to appreciate the importance of civic education, having looked down on it at a point in time, contending that such assertions are the reasons for the breakdown in society.

“I don’t think it has outlived its usefulness. I think that the world is coming back to realizing that civic education is an important pillar of democracy, has been overlooked in most places, and countries are paying a very high price for that.

“A lot of the Western countries that are suffering now because of breakdown in society, lack of cohesion, and people lack of patriotism, and all of those things, it’s because they defunded the civic education programmess, it’s on record,” she stated.

She cited the United States’ incident where it is on record that the federal government built the State after the Second World War and defunded civic education, resulting in the current state where social cohesion and patriotism have been threatened.

“Even at the end of the Second World War, even in the US, a lot of resources went into building, state building, building nations, and building citizens, right? But once, over time, when things stabilized and everything was going well, there was a defunding process that has now led to the situation that we find ourselves in,” she said in addition.

Madam Addy added that “the whole world is in a flux. It’s not only Ghana that we have problems.”

Source: onuaonline