A Critical analysis of the secondary school economic science curruculum
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Date
2002
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University of Zululand
Abstract
The economic sciences curriculum is supposed to equip learners with skills
that would be readily recognised and acceptable to the corporate world. Yet it
became obvious from the high unemployment rate of leamers with economic
science background that the expected skills were less developed than
expected. School leavers need to be retrained for them to be able to carry out
elementary tasks like bookkeeping. It is the inadequacy of the present
secondary school curriculum to produce employable school leavers that
prompted this inquiry.
The main objective of this study was to investigate the relevance of the
economic science curriculum to the needs of the corporate world. The study
revealed that lack of participation by all relevant stakeholders in the
development of a curriculum creates the gaps between the schooling system
and the corporate world. The lack of resources and poor communication
between business and education also contributed to the unemployability of
school graduates. There is, therefore, very little congruence between what is
taught and the world of work.
Several recommendations to address the problem were put forward. The
most important of these recommendations is .the establishment of
partnerships between education and vocational skills may be fused.
Economic science education needs to be given prominence in all schools
including those in rural environments where given subject advisors seldom
visit
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Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Education in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Department Of Curriculum and Instructional Studies at the
University of Zululand, South Africa, 2002.
Keywords
Economics--Study and teaching.