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dc.contributor.authorKoosimile, A.T.
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-09T13:11:42Z
dc.date.available2010-06-09T13:11:42Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationKoosimile, A.T. (2005) Teachers’ experiences with an adapted IGCSE physics syllabus in Botswana, International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 25, pp. 209–219en_US
dc.identifier.issn0738-0593
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10311/499
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on teachers’ experiences with implementing a modified International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) physics syllabus in Botswana. The syllabus, characterised by a new organisational and pedagogic paradigm, is a significant shift from the traditional ‘‘teacher-proof’’ syllabus to one that is flexible, nonprescriptive and student-centred. Through data from discussions and interviews with teachers, it emerged that policy statements on the nature of the syllabus were contradictory and confusing to guide both the adoption and implementation of the syllabus. It also emerged that teachers accorded the core curriculum component of the syllabus a lower priority and status than the extended curriculum component. The findings also reveal that considerable overlaps in the core and extended curriculum components of the syllabus blurred the distinction between the two as well as weakening prospect of fidelity of adoption and implementation. The resulting ‘innovation gap’ invariably means that the ideals of the syllabus and the associated paradigm shifts are possibly not realised in teaching in Botswana. The findings generally underscore the importance of clear guidance and policy statements on any new syllabus, and indeed, a new curriculum. Possible directions in future research would be to investigate innovation gaps that might be manifest in teaching.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevier, www.elsevier.com/locate/ijedudeven_US
dc.subjectTeachersen_US
dc.subjectLocalisationen_US
dc.subjectBGSCEen_US
dc.subjectIGCSEen_US
dc.subjectCore curriculumen_US
dc.subjectExtended curriculumen_US
dc.subjectPhysics syllabusen_US
dc.subjectBotswanaen_US
dc.titleTeachers’ experiences with an adapted IGCSE physics syllabus in Botswanaen_US
dc.typePublished Articleen_US


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