Challenges Facing Implementation of the Competency Based Curriculum in Kenya: An Urban View

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2021-09
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International Journal of Education and Research
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his paper explores challenges teachers face in implementation of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) in public pre-primary schools in Nairobi City County. Kenya rolled out the CBC in pre-primary and primary schools in 2018 with the aim of equipping learners with competencies and skills to meet human resource aspirations of Kenya’s Vision 2030 blueprint for development. However, studies have reported minimal use of CBC teaching-learning approaches in public preprimary schools. Therefore, this study purposed to establish the challenges hindering effective implementation of the Curriculum in the schools. The study was based on the Concern-Based Adoption Model by Hall, Hord and Rutherford (2006) and targeted all the 225 public pre-primary schools in the Nairobi City County, with a population of 675 comprising of 450 pre-primary school teachers, 225 Early Childhood Development (ECD) Center Managers. A Questionnaire and an interview schedule were used to collect data from a sample size of 135, which consisted of 45 center managers and 90 pre-primary school teachers. The data was analyzed thematically, the findings showed that implementation of CBC is greatly challenged by lack of adequate learning facilities, lack of adequate training of teachers on how to implement the Curriculum, large class sizes, lack of adequate teachers, lack of adequate teaching-learning materials, ignorance and lack of cooperation from parents. The study concluded that pre-primary school teachers in public preprimary schools faced a lot of challenges which hindered effective implementation of the curriculum. Therefore, the study recommended that the Nairobi City County Government should construct more classrooms, employ more teachers and provide adequate teaching–learning materials to cater for the high enrollment in public pre-primary schools. In addition the County government in collaboration with the schools should sensitize parents to help them understand what CBC is all about and their role in the implementation process
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Isaboke, H., Wambiri, G., & Mweru, M. (2021). Challenges facing implementation of the competency based curriculum in Kenya: an urban view. International Journal of Education and Research, 9(9), 71-84.