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Educational curriculum policy-making and implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa: an international view on issues and concerns

Bakibinga, Florence ( 1992)

This study is an international survey of issues and concerns in curriculum policy-making and implementation in Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper begins with a conceptual and theoretical framework that forms a network within which the various curricular concerns find bearing. Thereafter, there is a focus on what has been happening in the area of curriculum in these countries in the past twenty years. Recommendations arising from the review are included. Issues that relate to equity, relevance and distribution of curriculum which need to be given more attention are also considered. To address curricular problems in part of the region, the Pan-African Curriculum Policy Project was launched in 1991. A survey in the form of five questions formed the preliminary stage of the project. An analysis of responses is provided. The study concludes that African countries face similar problems in formulating and implementing curricular issues. There is a need to study these issues systematically and to establish and co-ordinate organisations that will devise means of addressing these issues. In the absence of continued input from without the continent, African countries need to look for solutions from within and to help each other in addressing these issues.