I’m not sure exactly when I came up with the idea of the matchbox teaching aids for technical drawing. It may have been during my teacher training course which began 37 years ago. Maybe I invented it for an assignment set by our Maths Education/Teaching Methods lecturer.
I was being trained to teach maths & science although they knew I would not be doing that. It was the closest thing they had, and it was certainly a good experience. Musical interlude no 1
I was a curriculum developer in the “Building Team”. This was three years in to my time in Zimbabwe and I had spent the first two teaching building at an experimental secondary school where the fundamental concept was “learning by doing” … acquiring knowledge and skills about construction while building your own classrooms. The official name was “Education With Production” as formulated by the Minister of Education Dr Dzingai Mutumbuka.
My work at that school put me in good stead to join the…