2024-02-11 16:14:18
At the opening of the national training workshop for executives of the Moral and Civic Rearmament Program (PRONEC-REAMORCE), the Cameroonian Minister of Youth and Civic Education took the gamble of importing a revolutionary method from South Korea. Analysis.
An alarming observation about Cameroonian youth
The opening speech of Minister Mounouna FOUTSOU is unequivocal: the “deterioration of the level of morality” of a large part of Cameroonian youth is evident. Between the rise in delinquency and the loss of bearings, the phenomenon is sufficiently worrying for the Head of State Paul Biya himself to sound the alarm.
Faced with this “progress of public immorality” which is insidiously eating away at the country, the National Program for Civic Education and Moral and Civic Rearmament (PRONEC-REAMORCE) was launched in 2020 by the government. But its effectiveness remains to be proven.
The challenge of “Mind Education” from Korea
It is in this context that the Minister of Youth announced during this speech that he now wants to rely on the « Mind Education ». Supported by a Korean NGO, this revolutionary concept aims to bring about a real “change of mentalities”.
A large Cameroonian delegation also went to South Korea last year for in-depth training in this method, which has largely contributed to the spectacular transformation of this Asian country in a generation.
250 Cameroonian trainers in training
With this valuable learning, Minister Mounouna FOUTSOU therefore intends to integrate the lessons of Korean Mind Education into the state civic education program for young Cameroonians.
The workshop opened this Thursday, February 8, constitutes a first realization of this bet. Some 250 Cameroonian trainers, in charge of implementing PRONEC-REAMORCE in the field, have in fact begun a three-day training course under the leadership of around fifty South Korean experts dispatched especially for this purpose.
The challenge: laying the foundations of a “society of positive values”
Through this initiative, the minister intends “bring consistency [les] declarative knowledge on PRONEC-REAMORCE » with proven Mind Education methods for behavioral recovery in 12-35 year olds.
His hope? Boost the educational action of the State to “develop human capital and social capital” of the country, in order to lay the foundations of “society of positive values” regularly mentioned by President Paul Biya.
The road is long. But by importing this Korean method which has proven itself, the challenge is high to stem the phenomenon of “moral degradation” among young Cameroonian generations.