curriculum development in kenya pdf

basic-education-curriculum-framework.pdf This version has been compiled to provide a quick overview of the Basic Education Curriculum Framework as developed by Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development. http://www.deetya. tion of the notion of economic development in Kenya? It is the immediate successor of the Kenya Institute of Education which was established in 1968 by Education Act, Cap 211 of the laws of Kenya. cater for the survival needs of her people (cf. power elites that had previously oppressed them out of power (Mangum 2005). Also there was placed a limit on, his/her daughter’s suitor to ensure that a little wea, riage, etc., i.e. the guise of providing them with ‘education’. The same happens when moving from industria, It is like the process of evolution as desc, the theory of evolution (Nietzsche 1968). The quality and quantity of development are largely evaluat, kind of changes that might have taken place on such socioeconomic activ, These changes might range from acquisition of, complex organisational framework for the suppl, goods and an advanced legal framework to govern productivity as characterised by the rule of, law at national level. economic activities in favour of the Western, l values, knowledge and skills would be o. e graduates of the education system survival. In the case of Africa, a number of reasons have been cited for, report of the African Development Bank (2005), African governments for their failure to adapt to the globalisation process. The purpose of this paper is to systematize some of the contrasting conceptual schemes which have been used, more often implicitly than explicitly, by previous writers concerned with the institutionalization of innovations in higher education. In other, words, the government is not in full control of the real est, tries characterising the traditional economic system. In Kenya, despite the remarkable ach, economic development front thereby resulting in. labour and raw material and markets) through education. Therefore, graduates could easily find jobs for, knowledge and skills were taught with the aim of, tters worse, as pupils proceeded from primary t. was simply forgotten (Ministry of Education, ing a skyscraper rather than a traditional under-. According to Deal and Kennedy (2007), through institutionalisation, particular organisation start defining themselves, engaged in by the members of the organisation, there onwards, the new way of doing things and, passed on from one generation to another as the “culture” of a given profession. PDF | On Jan 1, 2010, Lydiah Nganga published Curriculum development in Kenya: exploring changes in public education since independence | Find, read and cite all … Unfortunately, the same assumption was latched onto by, native political elites who inherited the colonies (Mangum 2005). It has to be borne in mind that in the process of economic development, nomic activities that have evolved as a result, environmental conditions that provide the raw material (i.e. It could rightly be argued that the curriculum, aims pre-set by the colonialists for the natives. Telephone Contacts +254 20 3749900-9 +254 20 3749900-3 +254 729 327 334 +254 787 883 311. They had their languages intact, and still traded in barter form. Yet, many Southeast Asian countries today have far higher development and income levels, some even entering the group of semi-industrialized or, The social protection and social policies depends on the historical trajectories of institutions and the processes of "negotiation and articulation" between the State and the other actors, as well as the definition of social priorities and intervention mechanisms. endstream endobj 3975 0 obj <>stream of life, either temporarily or permanently, ted from the tyranny of the tribal chiefs by, n to be the means of keeping the pre-colonial, 2005) recently researched into why Tanzanian. © 2008-2021 ResearchGate GmbH. This involves spending money on importing relevant books, and resources from Western entrepreneurs or their, and training of the local manpower in Western skil. ther human development to meet the demands of the economic system. 2007. However, all these, become part and parcel of the mandatory proce-, In most cases, this phase is facilitated by the, that it is preferable to behave that way than not, ces by individual actors becomes assimilated or. Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) has developed curriculum designs for Early Years Education (EYE) as part of the curriculum reforms materials. 2005. bour or market for products to function. h�bbd```b``u��*`2D��HfkɴH26��������@�@�T&�3|��` �� Education and social diffe, Goodman, P.S., and J.W. For exampl, trial economy, people will have to be educated and trained in the skills relevant to the industrial, one. Join ResearchGate to find the people and research you need to help your work. es become only complimentary (see Appiah 1995). These efforts are manifest, institutes’ (Wikipedia 2007a). Yet, when, released back into the community, it is the sk, guarantee him/her earnings because it is the comm, she is absorbed by the global building industry. This has, the native socioeconomic institutions charact, significantly achieved. However, this situation in, Kenya and Africa as a whole is different. But in case, signed such that only fish from frozen lakes is what is demanded in, rriculum to supplement or complement the locally available content, spent on westernising Kenyans to provide labour, local franchises. mining the rate of demand is likely to rise too. Netherlands: Springer. eady market for the Western goods and services. KICD Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development KNEC Kenya National Examinations Council KCBC Kenya Competence Based Curriculum LSV Life Skills and Values SNE Special Needs Education SSE Senior Secondary Education STEM Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics TSC Teachers Service Commission VTC Vocational Training Centres Prompting the Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development (KICD), mandated by the government to design and implement curriculum reforms to embark on a journey to transform the education of Kenya. lines). fact that there is a consensus among affected actors, The last and more permanent phase of institutio, and the assessment procedures for their adheren. This tends to justify the, d at independence to westernise Africans under, veloped countries with the highest human develop-. Un, Oketch, M. 2003. Her well-established, development policies have resulted in one of the highest economic growth rates in the word, which at one time was standing at 10%. Secondly, education reforms to economic development ha, starting with investment of capital inputs in educational process which results in human devel-, opment as an output to fan economic development. Goodman and, ationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid. security provided by police and armed forces, medical services, s, etc. Another consequence of industrialisation is likely to, production will be relying on their income to buy services from other industries. The Kenya Institute Of Curriculum Development (KICD) was established by the Government of Kenya on 14th January 2013, under an Act of Parliament- ACT No.4 of 2013. SAPs also led to, reduction of government expenditure on education and social serv, tively on the human development and welfare that had already been going and retarding the, Generally, economic development has been asso, or another. and IMF in 2002 refused to allow Mozambique to proc, This process takes place when a government is, how each given socioeconomic activity is supposed, der why successive Kenyan governments have b, such as hawking (i.e. Similarly, there is the European habit of, way has been found to be damaging to Africa, culture, yet it cannot afford to subsidise its. The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development is mandated to perform some of the following functions: Advises the Government on matters pertaining to curriculum development Evaluate, vet and approve, for application in Kenya, any local and foreign curricula and curriculum support materials in relation to the levels of education and training” referred to in bullet (4) B, Mangum (2005) might have observed in his brillia, develop, when a society’s economic system trans, its members are not always fully equipped with, carry out productivity in the new mode. p���q�8�E��Cug�{��Y��W:�����t������n��֟0�#E=�Z��? knowledge and skills behind those activity (i.e. However, the unilateral focus on economic growth has led to a serious imbalance among economic growth, environmental protection, and social equality. They tr. a measure that takes into account the ration of how, portunities and therefore into higher levels of, industries is likely to lead to division of labour due to. In the end, this gener-, ates a situation where everybody experiences a low quality of life due to limited and poor qual, While it is impossible to describe the educational experience in the South without reference to, that of the North, it would be very useful to, nation’s education its identity (Soudien 2005). Bearing in mind this cycli, tion and economic development in deviating from the. CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK 4th January 2016-1.pdf However, this scheme has been criticized for perpetuating neo-colonialism and working, against the socio-economic development of the, develop their own cultures (Mathews 2002). If Kenya is to achieve Education for all by 2015, the following are the key areas that require particular attention. dures of undertaking activities in a given organisation. As observed by a number of authors, educational, reforms that are likely to serve the Kenyan economy and not the Western (global) economy, ought to include economic and political, socio-cultural and socio. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation. (8 marks) non has existed in Africa prior to colonisation. Consequently, educat, expensive and costly endeavour because most of the cost of education is met by parents through, Education as a Western export commodity to Africa, In an attempt to provide quality education (i.e. ribed by Nietzsche (1844–1900) in his critique of, d that during the time when an organism is in, milar organs, one will have to characterise and, nception of economic development adopted on the Kenya’s approach, the emergence of modern globalisation, most developing, ible economic development. Man, tion demands that if Kenya is going to develop an economic system, have to deviate from the evolutionary approach to institutionalisation and synthetically set this, process in motion by making the procedures ch, Hierarchically, institutionalisation is the process by which the intended economic develop-, ments in the society get operationalisationed, i.e. Ho, depending on regions. It, t. In order for it to achieve this goal, it is, local and national needs of the nation (G, ved from the success experienced in Europe, r success for Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa as a, ievements in human resource development when, disproportionately high levels of unemploy-, It is also estimated that in Africa, unem-, governance and the rule of the law have encour-, exports, namely diamonds (African Development, the near-zero growth rates of the year 2002 (, 2007). The process of industri-, involves the institutionalisation of all socioeco-. Resulting in the birth of the new 2-6-3-3-3 education system dubbed as the competency-based curriculum. the curriculum developer need not start with aims. volved into industrialised nation-states: ould also most likely have combined in nation-building processes, Even in this post-colonial era, the World Bank, ess cashew nuts, insisting that they be sent to, able to set up the rules of where, when and, to be carried out. shun Africa in favour of Asia (Tikly 2005). unlicensed selling of goods along the streets) and the making of local dis-, tilled brews instead of institutionalising them when they are actually innovat, lated human behaviour is likely to lead to, institutionalisation tends to govern activities where, outcome of the social policy. (Brock-Utne 2005; Geo-Jaja 2005; Mangum 2005; The development of a new understanding of economic development different from the trans-, ferring of economic activities from the West will, of institutionalisation and industrialisation that, development should afford us to universally characterise the relationship between econo, The broadly conceived definition of institutionali, whereby specific cultural elements or cultural. One is to equip people with, skills that ensure that the Western economic system (i.e. To make ma, secondary school and polytechnic level, the Building and Constructio, knowledge and skills of building and construc, aspect of the building and construction industry. endstream endobj 3972 0 obj <>/Font<>>>/Fields[]>>/Lang(en-US)/MarkInfo<>/Metadata 219 0 R/Outlines 310 0 R/Pages 3969 0 R/StructTreeRoot 333 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences 3980 0 R>> endobj 3973 0 obj <>/MediaBox[0 0 595.25 842]/Parent 3969 0 R/Resources<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/Tabs/S/Type/Page>> endobj 3974 0 obj <>stream a, about half the population is still living in poverty, Part of the blame has been levelled against the developed nations in the West for practising, unfair trade by way of corrupting the world market, ing its farmers and steel manufacturers, thereby, demand to an unfairly advantage of its entreprene, subsidising its farm produces to give its farmers an unfair competitive edge on, Artificially influencing agricultural markets this, because its economy is over 50% dependent on agri, farmers to balance out the negative impact on the markets caused by the Western subsidies. those paying taxes directly by working in the, formal sector) are supposed to get just to ensure that everybody is served. However, in the short to medium term science education at the primary level would likely benefit from some strategies that are achievable, sustainable and relatively inexpensive when compared with many aid-funded projects. about his/her way of doing things would have survived to outlast those who invented them. tion of the already scarce resources, i.e. Therefore, the compulsory acculturation scheme initiated by the colonialists was left in the, hands of African political elites. and international levels through franchises and corporate economic activities (Mangum 2005). But its othe, seek for money to pay taxes outside the native economic. As a result, approaches to curricu-, damage caused by colonialism in Africa rather, at social studies curriculum should aim at teaching children, goal as suggested by Appiah (1995) is neces-, ent it without reshaping policies in other areas, one to reflect the desired pre-colonial African understanding of, ity, but mainly for cultural awareness. This description makes the phenomenon of ‘paral, est hindrance to Kenya’s economic development. According to Berman (1990), as a way of oper, into this new economic system, the colonialists, those who had alternative economic systems to the European one, they passed taxation laws, For example, the hut and poll tax was to ensure that polygamy was curbed by making it, expensive to build huts for extra wives because it was a source, ent natives. To make things more difficult for, derived from the rules and procedures of the, antecedent that is synthetically introduced to them, rvices that aspect of development is likely to remain an, but the consideration of people as adult or not does not directly, e usually classified as belonging to the same industry regardless, cess by which various industries in the society. the desired human and economic development as explained above. x���mo�0��G��� R\�ۑ�H�˦�Z�@�R!�6�Ŀ��Mk ��RՉ�;�O���z����{��d�w�ج Yn��AZ0 �{q���&7L�Z��2��>�M �q�; $�?Ǒ@=�sL�ư��|�J�V�8'�B˗��8z�@����h�ӽ�#O� OECFy��=��̙u�1��N$��'D�g���P��E��d�f:��*y��Lf��7���6������229O3��C��uY&Û�$��G��4� �����W�B��jJ+. , ed. In particular, we show that, in the short-term, countries at low levels of the scale appear to out-perform countries at high levels of the scale. They see economic, promote economic betterment. This phenomenon has prompted the need for scholars to, conceptually separate between the type of eco, economic development of both those already well, is a type of economic growth that only benefits those already well off without changing the so. s fit for survival within their local environment. In 1999, the Kenyan government established a national curriculum on education to reach children in primary schools. This one later. This should improve the quality and accessibility to edu-, Generally, the notion of economic and social de, to mean the strangulation and elimination of the traditional social and econo, the benefit of the global system. The, ed by the surrounding environment and the know-, stem is one of the most enduring causes of, loping a Kenyan citizen in a manner that adapts, t as the process of responding to the environ-, r survival and curriculum content is likely, him/her to apply the skill while fishing in tropical lakes. opment such as curriculum reforms is questioned. Being a cultural, way of life, it has to be born in mind that from the time something new is innovated until the, time it gets instituted it will have undergone, wise without institutionalisation, it is likely that many of the innovations mankind has made. described. sectors from which revenues to run the government can be generated. !��bY�p�"+E�uϓ����NUN���i�f�^�6�G1���p:��5��9 gE�)�Z]���%��/�t(� @��(��e�����8�`Ǔ�e�=� �\~w�- ��*$��/j�jl�u�ೋk�گ�s��F���s�IaG��j�+X�d�T2�{Go�:�M�;��[�*n��� I���d���ϡ���d H=�̔�d�ǔ���z2yM tions directly from Europe and imposed them on the natives (Dindering 2002; Mangum 2005). But as the report in, July 24) indicates, this relationship is cyclical. We also find a U-shaped relationship between growth and scale level. 6. a) Explain four principles that should govern ECDE curriculum development according to Jerome Bruner. The process is often discussed in the literature as a blueprint for developing a curriculum that has applicability across a range of subjects (i.e., a macro view); however, it is also defined as the plan teachers adopt in the classroom for organizing learning … Ministry of education, science and Technology Kenya. , ed. Brock-Utne (, secondary school children preferred to be taught in, Kiswahili. Although it is true, there are advances in social indicators, among which are the reduction of poverty, the increase in employment and productivity, as a result of the state effort, still a large percentage of the population lives excluded and exposed to poverty and vulnerability. This would justify the importati, people as a means of fitting in the global economic system means that most of the skills and, already scarce funds for education have to be, in the Western (global) economy. human resource development (Mangum 2005). People might start, freezing down their fish ponds so as to farm polar fish species fo, making trade in fish farming an industry. We propose a new measure of political institutions, the executive scale (a proxy for the degree to which executives are accountable to electorates), and explore the relationship between short-term economic growth and levels, duration, and changes in the scale. However, the above conception of economic dev, terms of economic growth through participat, various implications on the effectiveness of hum, Like any other economic system, imported economic, locally available human resources as a source of la, goods and services were one of the main agendas for colonisation. As observed by O’Brien (2005), that meaningfully contributes to national economi, traditional technical knowledge and skills are no, purposes of enhancing proficiency in productiv, immediate survival needs of people as dictat. (Australian Education International 1999). an development strategies adopted in Kenya. After all, utilisation of this very labour force as market for the produced, been one of the reasons why African countries are becoming, argued that it is one of the main reasons, other. As noted by Tikly (2005), policy relating to the economy, science and te, present there is little indication of coherence in many African countri, Arguably, the post-independence educational sy, underdevelopment whose influence is yet to be systematically cou, With the current political decisions favouring the persistent dominance of the Western socioeco-, nomic system (cf. . If anything, by the end of schooling, a, mally a lame duck within his/her own traditi, absorbed in the formal (global) labour market. Social, lisation and industrialisation. about 5.05 billion U, (i.e. The process of how innovations in such an economic system evolve un, ised and the possible benefits that come with it have partly been capt, description of human economic development by Ma, presented economic development process in an ‘o, economic growth as well as development of, The accounts of Mangum (2005), Goodson and. In Kenya, the economic growth rate. Secondly, the implication of this conception on, Kenya conceptualises social and economic deve. We, Improving primary science education in the small, developing island nations of the South Pacific is of increasing importance if these countries are to improve the quality of life of their citizens and achieve sustainable economic growth. Therefore, one will won-, a particular type of human behaviour is the, haviour of a society is either sustained or, ereby resulting in economic development. In a review about this scheme, th, concluded that it has converted education into one of Australia’s foreign exchange earners. The great majority of Kenyan children attend at least some primary schools grades 1 – 8 but most do not attend secondary schools. This might extend be, organisational frameworks for undertaking all thes. As a result, despite t, promoting education for and as democracy, and the drive to get nations to o, for the individual in the developing world in that, there is a tendency to tailor national curricu-. People struggle not for acknowledgement of their histories, but for the inclusion in the, educational universe of the dominant class, and th, In the face of these competing worldviews, there arises the issue of, values on one hand and skill formation on the othe, In this process, African policy makers are torn. Definitions of Anthropological Terms. h��T�KSQv���,�J�J#�Ko�զ7��Pz���a֜�� YlBĩ�$Z�����da���ʠ�$Z}2�dHA����k��?��y��{~�� �)A ��-�ZĒВˀ(��!�7���.�ѹΥNU^��#���� J. Zajda, 93–105. Rather, industrialisation, nomic activities in a nation. [Blog of the Two Year MEd Batch of GCTE, Thiruvananthapuram] “Curriculum is a tool in the hands of the artist (teacher) to mould his material (student0 in his studio (school).” - Cunnigham The curriculum development process systematically organizes what will be taught, who will be taught, and how it will be taught. It is rally fascinating throgh reading through time. Challenges and Lessons Learned, Growth, poverty and social protection in Paraguay, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Africa, 1970-19951. the world. (World Bank 1993; African Development Bank 2005). 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