Implementation of Revised School Curriculum in Namibia : An Emphasis on Accounting Syllabus and its uptake by Teachers

ISBN-13: 9783846517680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 132 str.

Alpha Ndeunyema

Opis

Namibia has launched a reform of great ambition which came to be captured in the Vision 2030 National Document. This thesis examines the implemenation of the new curriculum in Namibia with an emphasis on the new Junior Secondary Accounting Syllabus (JSAS) and its uptake by teachers.This was a small-scale study which sought to establish the meanings that teachers have constructed, that is how they make sense of the new JSAS both in their practice and in their pedagogical understandings.It hopes to add to the information about the importance of the teachers in the process of policy making and policy implementation. It also acknowledges the needs to take implementing agents'(teachers) sense-making into account in the process of educational change. This could help to bridge the gap between policy makers and policy implementers. The question is, can teachers simply understand and incoporate new ideas in their existing knowledge structures? In fact, Could they actually implement what is required from them as stated in the the revised JSAS? This thesis aimed to provide insight to these questions.

O autorze

Alpha Ndeunyema was born in 1983.She is a teacher by profession and part time lecturer at Polytechnic of Namibia. She has a BEd in Accounting and Economics-UNAM and MED in Administration, Planning and Social Polic- University of Cape Town.She devoted her time to research on school curriculum reform and its challenges amoung Namibian teachers.