Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/1547
Title: Challenges faced in the implementation of the Zimbabwe localised advanced level geography syllabus: a case of Gweru district high schools
Authors: Dzimiri, Wonderful
Marimo, Simon T.
Keywords: Localised geography syllabus, implementation challenges, teaching
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher: Global Institute for Research & Education
Series/Report no.: Global Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences;Vol.4, No. 2; p.52-56
Abstract: This study investigated the challenges in the implementation of Zimbabwe’s localised Advanced Level Geography syllabus. The Post-positivist framework underpinned the concurrent triangulated mixed methods design of this study. Observation and content analysis triangulated data gained from questionnaires and interviews. The population comprised of nineteen Advanced Level Geography schools in Gweru district offering the localised Advanced Level Geography syllabus, three hundred former Advanced Level Geography students, three hundred and twenty-six current Advanced Level Geography students, and three relevant officers. A sample of twelve schools was selected by stratified random sampling to include rural day schools, mission schools, low-density high schools and high-density high schools as school type in the districts, and purposive sampling used to select teachers, students and officers respectively. Findings indicated that teachers employed teacher-centred approaches, lacked adequate instructional media and resources, had challenges in syllabus interpretation, and students had negative attitudes towards certain syllabus topics.
URI: http://www.gifre.org/library/upload/volume/52-56-CHALLENGES-vol-4-2-gjiss.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1547
ISSN: 2319-8834
Appears in Collections:Research Papers

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
challenges faced.pdfAbstract2.74 kBAdobe PDFView/Open
Show full item record

Page view(s)

40
checked on Nov 22, 2024

Download(s)

4
checked on Nov 22, 2024

Google ScholarTM

Check


Items in MSUIR are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.