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Rethinking Of Improved Literacy Among Rural Communities Towards The Use Of Local Content As Open Learning Systems In Tanzania: Exploring The Elimu Kiosk Mode

Ombeni Msuya

Education has generally been a cultural tool that is confined to the few, thus leaving out the majority fumbling in gross ignorance as they try to catch up with modern development. Most of these are the poor living in rural communities. While the educated men and women engage themselves in various socio-economic and cultural activities geared for the attainment of Tanzania’s Development Vision and the Global Sustainable Development Goals the poor are left cherishing their unrealized dreams. This paper brings to view an effective strategy to bridge the gap between the unlearned and the learned by localizing Open Educational Resources (OERs) to suit specific needs of the people. A big number of people in rural areas have been engaging themselves in agriculture and other cultural undertakings but with little knowledge and skills on what they are actually doing or are supposed to do. Due to the nature of their daily activities, it is very difficult for them to access formal education and other skills through available formal systems. Therefore, the need to develop local content and other tailor-made educational programmes in open movable education systems (Elimu Kiosks). This paper is set to explain how this can become a reality.