'Include child injury prevention education in formal curriculum'
Curriculum specialists and academicians yesterday underscored the need for inclusion of textbooks materials on children injury prevention in formal education at the primary and secondary level to bring down infant mortality rate in the country.
Referring to the child death caused by various injuries, they said nearly 30,000 children aged below 18 years die while 13,000 are being crippled every year due to injuries like drowning, road accident, burning, attack from animals and electrocution.
They were addressing an experience-sharing meeting on “Incorporation of the text materials in formal education curriculum from grade 1 to 8”, at Spectra Convention Centre in the city.
Center for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh (CIPRB) organised the meeting in cooperation with The Alliance for the Safe Children (TASC) and Unicef, Bangladesh.
Executive Director of Centre for Mass Education and Science (CMES) Prof Dr Muhammad Ibrahim spoke addressed the meeting as the chief guest while CIPRB Executive Director Dr AKM Fazlur Rahman also spoke.
CIPRB Director Dr Aminur Rahman gave an overview of the organisation on how it is working for prevention of child injuries by devising multifarious methods.
Lecturer of Institute of Education and Research (IER) of Dhaka University Sumera Ahsan and specialist of National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) M Shahjahan presented keynote papers on the occasion.
Prof Mohammad Ibrahim said children should not be given extra burden by providing them with extra supplementary books.
Poor performance of textbooks curriculum leads to increase in high dropout in a country, he said, adding that curriculum should be shortened so that it does not create pressure on their brain.
Dr Shahjahan Tapan, a techer of Department of Physics of Dhaka University, said primary school children should be given supplementary reading materials but they must be scientific way of learning.
Prof Dr Gazi Ahsanul Kabir, a former executive director of National Academy for Education and Management (NAEM), described drowning as the number one factor of child death and said awareness against the death should be created among mothers also.
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