Mainstreaming Core-Values in the Curriculum of East African Community Countries for Holistic and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Prospects
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Date
2019-01
Authors
Orodho, John Aluko
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Publisher
Greener Journal of Educational Research
Abstract
This paper is premised on the concern that there is a value crisis in the
education curriculum offered in Africa generally and the East African Community
countries in particular. The paper had three main objectives, first to examine the
status of education in the EAC region in terms of content and emerging
challenges. Secondly, core-values in the draft harmonized curriculum for the
EAC region were analysed by isolating critical learning gaps. Finally, a
revitalized framework for mainstreaming core-values using a whole school was
applied as an effective approach for nurturing core-values as well as career
preparedness and attitudes. The study employed desk survey, document
analysis and case-study approaches. The findings were that, first, the current
status of the curriculum developed in most of the EAC countries stressed more
on cognitive development through academic excellence and less on the
nurturing of moral and career preparedness skills. Secondly, the challenges
that besiege education in these countries gravitate around internal and external
inefficiencies. Finally, it was evident that the draft harmonized curriculum for
the EAC countries had not mainstreamed core-values and twenty first century
learning skills in the subject content areas thereby being blamed for the current
internal and external inefficiencies in educational institutions regionally. Based
on these findings, it was concluded that there was adequate justification for
mainstreaming both academic excellence and core-values in the curriculum for
the EAC countries using whole school approach. In addition, for the region to
attain sustainable development, researchers in the region need to set up
research networks, solicit for research grants and undertake concerted
measures to foster cooperation in education and training through joint valuebased
research projects geared towards solving the multifarious and
intertwined problems that beleaguer the education sector in the region.
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Research Article
Keywords
Mainstreaming, Core-Values, Twenty First Century Skills, EAC Countries, Sustainable
Citation
Orodho A.Mainstreaming Core-Values in the Curriculum of East African Community Countries for Holistic and Sustainable Development: Greener Journal of Educational Research Vol. 9(1), pp. 01-15, 2019 ISSN: 2276-7789Challenges and Prospects: