A Critical analysis of the secondary school economic science curruculum

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dc.contributor.advisorGawe, N.
dc.contributor.authorZungu, Zacheus Ngcebo Dumisani
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-12T10:21:05Z
dc.date.available2013-08-12T10:21:05Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.descriptionThesis 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.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe 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 visiten_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10530/1215
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Zululanden_US
dc.subjectEconomics--Study and teaching.en_US
dc.titleA Critical analysis of the secondary school economic science curruculumen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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