Humanising the Dehumanised: Collective Pedagogy in Nwamuo's the Prisoners/ LE DROIT ET LA PROTECTION DES DOITS DES ENFANTS : LA LIAISON POUR UN DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE AU NIGÉRIA
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: The question of a convenient equipoise between the artist and his immediate society has for long dominated the field of sociology of literature. This has become increasingly unavoidable in dictatorial regimes. For leftist writers, the basic essence is to 'unsettle' the already settled and indeed defeatist or fatalistic mindsets of the oppressed class. Consequently, the essence of the education their literature offers is towards the goal of liberation: indeed, the practice of freedom is central to this theory of action. In this wise, the paper is a study of The Prisoners, a play written by one of Nigeria's second generation playwrights. The paper observes that our chosen playwright belongs to the Left and he adopts the principle of collective pedagogy, which involves collective teaching and thinking through together among the vectors of revolutionary change. Again, it is observed that the playwright's personal experience of the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) coupled with his working experiences and social rapport with the rulers and the ruled in Nigeria or elsewhere may have conditioned his conceptualisation of the play. Thus, the essence of investigating Nwamuo's The Prisoners is to highlight the implications of collective pedagogy in enhancing social change and development in the society. Keywords: Humanising; Dehumanised; collective pedagogy; freedom, humanity Resume: Toutes les societes humaines, quelle que soit son apparence primitive, est regie par un code de lois. Ces lois donnent un ordre et un sens a leur vie et servent de controle social et du developpement global de la societe. Certaines societes negligent les droits naturels et civils de leurs citoyens, en particulier les femmes et les enfants, parce qu'elles pensent que les droits des femmes et des enfants sont suffisamment proteges par leurs maris et leurs peres. Mais les traitements inhumains infliges aux femmes et aux enfants, voire par leurs maris et les peres ont mis en evidence les erreurs et les problemes de considerer que les droits des femmes et des enfants dans la societe sont proteges. Le present article examine donc les dangers poses de considerer les droits des enfants comme acquis dans la societe et les efforts deployes au Nigeria, a fin de proteger l'enfant pour un developpement global et durable de la societe. Mots-cles: enfants, droits; droit de survie; droit de development; droit de participation; droit de protection INTRODUCTION If the artist is anything, he is a human being with heightened sensitivities, he must be aware of the iaintest nuisances of injustice in human relations. The African writer cannot therefore be unaware of or indifferent to the monumental injustice which his people suffer (Achebe 79). The dramatist is a part of humanity. He does not live in outer space, nor operates in a vacuum. He lives and dies in Hie same society as the clergy. . . He therefore has his society and the objects therein as raw materials to make his contributions to humanity... his contributions being his creative output (Emeana 15). Historically, high levels of dehumanizing and frustrating conditions have bedeviled Africa and Nigeria as a nation. Nigeria also has been badly entangled in the web of human rights violation by its leaders, military and civilian. The living conditions in the inside wall (prisons) are appalling and paralleled the situation of life in the outside wall of Nigeria. Currently, Nigerians are not only physically in prison but socially, economically, politically and psychologically in jail. The country is filled with people whose human rights are systematically violated. The demoralizing, dehumanizing and frustrating living conditions of Nigerian prisons manifest in conditions such as overcrowding, poor sanitation, lack of food and medicines and denial of contact with families, which all fall short of the UN standards for the treatment of prisoners. In many Nigerian prisons inmates sleep two to a bed of six springs or on the floor in filthy cells. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".