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What is Wrong With Kenyan Education Curriculum?
Date Posted:
8/12/2017 2:28:24 PM
Posted By: chrispohmomanyi Membership Level: Gold Total Points: 2523
enough time for content study must be allotted; enough time for practical and well supervised self-practice. In this good curriculum, the extent of comprehension is more valuable that the rank or even grade!
The engineers I have mentioned before, struggle to cram so much theory within a short time and immediately after an exam, they forget it. Their interest is to receive better grades and ranks, when that is achieved, they forget everything. This is the evil side of the grade you’ve never thought of before, I guess.
In Japan, technical polytechnics do better than universities. Their interest here, is to know how best to do things practically. They do not care of their rank or grade as to how much they understand. I do not mean that we are to score poorly, but it is true that if your comprehension is good, then your score is desirable. They do just a little of theory and more of practical and practice. And the best mechanical engineers are from japan.
You are also able to join this world of technology if we change the order of things. Not sitting in class for 8 hours per day without practical work, but more of practical learning aided by explanation for the best understanding and the mastery of concepts. This is only possible if the whole system of education and curriculum is suitable.
While the current emphasizes more on the grading more than understanding, the better curriculum must emphasize understanding than theories. When I consider this thought with the recent news of the new curriculum, then I think the 2-6-3-3-3 system will address this problem.
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