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Dempster, Edith R. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
This article explores the recontextualization of science in the Malawi Standard 6 syllabus for science and technology. It illustrates how relations of power and social control are enacted, using Bernstein's concepts of classification and vertical and horizontal discourse. The syllabus incorporates five 'disciplines': science, technology, health,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Course Descriptions, Indigenous Knowledge
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Ogwang, Tom Henry – Curriculum Journal, 2023
Although teacher agency is increasingly recognised by educationists in the Global South, it is not always well understood or accommodated in policy, as experienced with Universal Primary Education (UPE) reforms in Uganda. This empirical study analyses its role on the UPE reforms, the factors that shape it and its implications for curriculum…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Case Studies
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Lydiah Nganga; Samara Madrid Akpovo; John Kambutu; Sapna Thapa; Agnes Muthoni Mwangi – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Educational policies and practices in the current age of heightened globalization are increasingly grounded on unjust binary curriculum approaches that favor educational designs from Minority-World countries at the expense of epistemologies of indigenous people in Majority-World nations that are typically deemed culturally inferior (Gupta, 2015).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Indigenous Populations
Hoadley, Ursula – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2020
As South Africa transitioned from apartheid to democracy, changes in the political landscape, as well as educational agendas and discourse on both a national and international level, shaped successive waves of curriculum reform over a relatively short period of time. Using South Africa as a germane example of how curriculum and pedagogy can…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Poverty
Ndihokubwayo, Kizito; Habiyaremye, Hashituky Telesphore – Online Submission, 2018
The present study aimed at analyzing the goodness of competence-based curriculum and usability of textbooks related to this curriculum. It accommodated a sample of 44 national teachers' trainers (NTs) on Rwandan new competence-based curriculum. The study accommodated a mixed research design where inferential statistics was used and qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Course Descriptions
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Awofala, Adeneye O. A. – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2012
The intention of this paper is to describe and reflect on the changes in the new 9-year basic education mathematics curriculum in Nigeria. The paper is divided into four major themes: history of curriculum development in mathematics education at the basic education level in Nigeria, the motivations for the revision of the primary and junior…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Mathematics
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Ndille, Roland – African Educational Research Journal, 2015
The British colonial policy of education in the Southern Cameroons was guided by the philosophy of adapting education to the mentality, aptitude and occupations of the local population. This policy was gradually abandoned in the 1950s when it was realized that it was serving the colonial exploitative agenda of keeping natives to a permanently…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational History, Postcolonialism
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Altinyelken, Hulya Kosar – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
Based on a fieldwork study, this article seeks to investigate the implementation of "thematic curriculum" in Uganda from the perspectives of teachers. The article shows that although the majority of teachers are enthusiastic about the new curriculum, their implementation efforts are constrained by a multitude of challenges. The findings…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teacher Attitudes, Curriculum Implementation, Barriers
MacJessie-Mbewe, Samson – International Education Journal, 2004
The purpose of this research study was to find out how primary education is related to rural communities in Malawi as one of the developing countries in Africa. The study followed a qualitative design with a phenomenological approach. The population of interest were rural primary school graduates, teachers, students and craftsmen. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Community Relationship, Developing Nations, Elementary Education
Bitso, Constance – Online Submission, 2006
This paper explores a participatory process of Environmental Education (EE) networking in Mafeteng primary schools. It gives an overview of the existing EE efforts in Lesotho, particularly the models schools of the National Curriculum Development Centre. It also provides information about Lesotho Environmental Information Network as the body that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Networks, Curriculum Development, National Curriculum
Lewin, Keith M. – Online Submission, 2007
This paper makes the case for managed expansion of secondary schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa. The great majority of secondary age African children remain excluded from access to good quality secondary schooling. Increasing numbers are graduating from primary schools where enrolments are rapidly growing as a result of successful Education for All…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Long Range Planning, Secondary Schools, Educational Change