Sao Tome & Principe: Reflections of a Foreign Teacher · Global Voices
Sara Moreira

Raphaela Nazaré reflects about her experience as a Brazilian teacher in Sao Tome and Principe. She says that although the students are more disciplined than what she had seen in Brazil, the ferule is still a practice in Saotomean schools. Raphaela wonders if “this type of educational regime is valid to keep the hierarchy inside a school”.