Browsing by Author "Chere, Andualem"

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    An Analysis of the Work-oriented Character of the Ethiopian Primary School Curriculum
    (Addis Ababa University, 1994-06) Chere, Andualem; Bekele, Abebe (PhD)
    The purpo se of thi s study is t o analyse wh e ther the Ethiopian Curri culum of primary schoo l i s work-oriented or no t. To ach i eve thi s a im, t e xtbook co nt en t analysis and qu e st i onnai res have b een used as data co llect ion instruments. Four s t eps have been f o ll owed i n ana ly s ing t he conten t of th e t ex tbooks . Th e first step i s concerned wi th text book selection. Th e second step involves defining the research prob l ems in t e rm s o f categoriE's in relation t o the thE'sis bas i c qUE'st i ons. Th e th ird s t ep deals with ide n tif y ing the t ec hnique of mea surement or uni t o f content. The last step identifies th e system o f enum e rati o n. Th en . da t a obta ined from text bo ok ana lysi s and questi onnaire are int e rpreted and summari zed. The results of the analysis show th a t thirty- seven p e rcpnt of thp co nt ents are work - rpf ere nced. Of th ese wo rkfc, fer"nced paragra ph s , thirty - ti1r f'E' percent are hIlle - c o llar refe r enced and four per cent are ,.- h i te - co l l ar - l'io r k-referenced, TIle quest t o find n llt thp students ocrupational aspirations has r evealed that con t rary t o th e cnntpn t s of the t ex t books, their occupational aspira tion is i ncl ined to wh ite-c o llar categ o ri es o f occupat i o n s . On th e basis of the results. it is co n c luded that, in mos t aspects, th e present content of th e Ethiopian e lementary sc ho o l t ex tbooks do n o t co nt ai n a ba lan ced pr opo rtion o f co ntents which r e fl ec t wo rk orientation . Thoug h the f e ..work- or i en t ed paragraphs re f l ected a blue-collar ca t ego r y of " ork b ia s , th ey fail t o develop on s tu de nt s pos i tive att itude t oward s ma nual work,
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    An Analysis of The Work-Qriented Character of The Ethiopian Primary Schcx)L Curriculum
    (Addis Ababauniversity, 1994-06) Chere, Andualem; Bekele, Anene
    Th purpose of thi tudy is to analyse whether the Ethiopian Curriculum of primary school is work-oriented or not. To achiev this aim, textbook con n analysis and ques ionnaires have been used as data collection instruments. Four steps have been followed in analysing he content of the textbooks. The fir t step is concerned with text book selection. The second step involves defining the research problems in terms of categories in relation to the thesis basic questions. The third step deals with identifying the technique of measurement or unit of content. The last step identifies the system of enumeration. Then. data obtained from text b01k analysi and questionnairp are in erpreted and summarized. The rpslll s of thp ana 1 ys i S sh090 tat hi rty-seven percpn of the contents are wnrk-referpn ed . Of these wo rkrpfprpnce p~ragraphs, hirty-thr e perren are plue-collar refer nced and four perrent are whi te-co llar-90nrk-referenced. The qUE''':; n find ou he <; uden SOC'! a~io nal aspi r a i')ns has re 'ealed that contrary 0 the cnn::"' ... s n . heir 0(' upational aspi ration is incline categorie<; of occupa tions. he "xtbooL . o whi te-collar On the basis of the resul ts. it is concluded that, in most aspects, the present content of the Ethiopian elementary school textbooks do not contain a balanced proportion of contents which reflect work orientatio. Though the few work-orient d paragraphs reflected a lue-collar categ ry of work bias, they fail to develop on tud en.s po i ive attitude towards manual work