- Title
- Assessing the Relative Participation of Different Stakeholders in Curriculum Development in Secondary Schools of OR Tambo Inland Education District B
- Creator
- Machaea, Joseph Modumedi
- Description
- Democracy in South Africa necessitated transformation of segregated education systems that existed and adopted in schools prior 1994, to have a single curriculum irrespective of colour, race, and religion. Transformation of education in particular was crucial to redress the imbalances of the past. It was believed that consultation was done through Batho Pele principles, though there has been no empirical evidence to prove teacher participation in curriculum development as major implementers. This study, sought to establish the relative contribution of stakeholders like teachers, communities, teacher unions in curriculum development in schools of OR Tambo inland education district. Resistance shown by teachers regarding curriculum implementation triggered the researcher. A case study research design was adopted hence, it is the analyses of OR Tambo teachers and principals’ responses. In collecting and analysing the collected data, a qualitative method approach was used. A sample of 10 purposeful selected secondary schools from different circuits was used for data collection and each secondary school was represented by one teacher and one principal as participants for this study. Semi- structured interviews were conducted face-to-face with 10 teachers and 10 principals of the sampled purposefully selected secondary schools. The qualitative data was adopted in this study. A thematic approach was used to analyse the collected data through interviews. It emerged the stakeholders like teachers, principals, teacher unions, communities, were marginalised by Department of Basic Education (DBE) curriculum planners. The study recommended that DBE should have effective programs on teacher training for curriculum implementation, availability of human and material resources, involve stakeholders like teachers, principals, teacher unions, researchers, parents and interested parties in curriculum developments...
- Description
- Degree: D. Education (Education Management and Development)
- Date
- 2025
- Subject
- Teacher
- Subject
- Participation
- Subject
- Curriculum development
- Subject
- Curriculum implementation
- Subject
- O.R Tambo
- Type
- Doctoral (Thesis)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/13875
- Identifier
- vital:79042
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Walter Sisulu University
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