A competency-based curriculum for Zambian primary and secondary schools: learning from theory and some countries around the world.
Date
2019
Authors
Mulenga, Innocent Mutale
Kabombwe, Yvonne Malambo
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International Journal of Education and Research
Abstract
This is a theoretical paper based on the curriculum designing approcach of competency based
education that the Zambian education has embraced as a way of providing quality education to its
nationals. A competency-based curriculum is designed with a view to help learners acquire
knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that are likely to equip them with competencies that they can
effectively use to serve society. In this paper the authors have analysed the Zambian education
system adoption of the competency-based curriculum whose review started in 2013 and then
gradually implemented until 2017. Examples have been given of some countries that have in the
past adopted and implemented a competency-based curriculum. An explanation of the historical and
theoretical perspective of a competency-based curriculum has been given too. In the conclusion, a
brief analysis of the implications of Zambia’s adoption of the compertency based curriculum has
been done.
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Keywords
Competency-based curriculum. , Content-based curriculum. , Outcome based education. , competencies.