South Africa’s curriculum irrelevancy is an old narrative. The current status of the curriculum in South Africa is atrocious. Different education stakeholders ranging from parents, the market and students themselves continuously share an outcry for a relevant and career-oriented curriculum…
Continue ReadingCurriculum disengagement happens when there’s no relationship and relevancy between curriculum (subjects) undertaken by students and the futures for which the students aspire. In other words, curriculum disengagement is a disjointed experience between students’ subjects and their future desires. This…
Continue ReadingMass affair curriculum refers to the curriculum system that assembles a list of subjects and requests learners to choose their curriculum based on the listed subjects. The developers of this curriculum are under the impression that learners learn the same…
Continue ReadingA curriculum, for the purpose of this publication, refers to the range of subjects learners take with the intention of reaching skills, knowledge, and attitudes for a particular field of profession. This means that a curriculum is made up of…
Continue ReadingInclusive education has always been generally defined as a way to ensure that all learners are able to access and gain equal opportunities to education and learning without any form of exclusion. In the South African education perspective, the emphasis…
Continue ReadingThe education systems of the world are supposed to serve the nation (learners) with an intention to grow economic sustainable communities of the world.The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE, 2018) posits that the most important role of different…
Continue ReadingThe disproportionate distribution and delivery of the curriculum within the NCS has caused many educational problems south Africa is facing today. A curriculum system that is cognisant of the existing differences and uniqueness of learners within its structures would appropriately…
Continue ReadingAmongst the year 2022 Matric pupils who “failed” their matric and those who will rewrite, are young people filled with great passions for various business ventures, sports, law, performing arts and drama etc. Even though these young people have been…
Continue ReadingBetween the 1859 and 1952 era in education, John Dewey the pragmatist educationist argued and criticised the education curriculum system that was traditional and included meaningless and needless content. He further heavily criticized the traditional curriculum that did not give…
Continue ReadingAmongst the five educational generic philosophies that represent various underlined values contributing to the curriculum development process is realism. Wiles (2005), states that realism supports teaching students about the world as it is; aligning with the notion that goodness is…
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