Rethinking Education in Botswana: A Need to Overhaul the Botswana Education System

Autor/in	Makwinja, Veronica Margaret
Titel	Rethinking Education in Botswana: A Need to Overhaul the Botswana Education System
Quelle	In: Journal of International Education Research, 13 (2017) 2, S.45-58 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2158-0979
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Educational Philosophy; Dropouts; Academic Failure; Educational Quality; Foreign Countries; Academic Standards; Access to Education; Equal Education; Social Change; Barriers; Educational Improvement; Qualitative Research; Preschool Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Vocational Education; Botswana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Ausland; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Sozialer Wandel; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Qualitative Forschung; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung
Abstract	Botswana through its two educational reform philosophies of 1977 and 1994 envisioned a developing education system that is on par with international standards. According to Tabulawa (2009), the education system was developed to produce critical thinkers, problem solvers, and innovative learners. The system was designed to provide opportunities for all students by providing access to all, improve the standards of education, emancipate Batswana from illiteracy, and develop their capabilities to create a social transformation in their lives. Education was to be a vehicle for continuous positive change that would ultimately enable people to build a better world. However, the system is wanting since most students drop out of school, fail the national examinations, or are unemployable graduates. Research shows that the standard and quality of education is deteriorating as evidenced by high rates of failure at primary and secondary schools. This paper established the reasons for deteriorating standards and failure of students; and whether this was a result of the difficulty, the country finds itself in attempting to re-think and change its educational system to improve the standards or any other factors. This paper reviewed the obstacles leading to high failure rate in one primary school and the need to overhaul, rethink, reform and transform the country's education system. This study was carried out at the Ministry of Education and Skills Development, which is presently divided into two sub departments; the Ministry of Basic Education and Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology and one (1) primary school in Gaborone through the use of qualitative method. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01