The Practice of Curriculum Development For Primary Education in Oromia Regional State
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2010-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the practice of curriculum
development for primary Education in Oromia Regional State since 1995. To
achieve this objective, department of curriculum and evaluation work process in
Oromia Regional Education Bureau was selected as the main study area. To
conduct the study, qualitative case study was employed. Purposive sampling
was used to select for curriculum experts and one curriculum coordinator from
curriculum development sub process of Oromia Regional Education Bureau. In
addition to this, one curriculum coordinator was selected from curriculum
Materials Development and Distribution process of Federal Ministry of Education.
Interview, document analysis and observation checklist were used as
instruments in data collection. The data were examined looking for common and
distinctive ideas. Common issues were identified to form themes and
interpretational analysis method was used in analyzing the data. The finding
revealed that most of curriculum experts in Oromia Education Bureau who played
major role in the curriculum work are not specialized for curriculum development.
Stages of curriculum development for primary education in Oromia Regional state
seem that it passes through the steps of curriculum planning and development in
Ethiopia as indicated in ICDR (1999:32). The Model used for curriculum
development was not clearly indicated and stated. An encouraging attempt has
been made to involve the stakeholders who should be involved in the process of
curriculum development for primary education. The curriculum development
process was entangled with lack of material resources, reference materials in the
library and financial support. Therefore, unless the prevailing problems are
resolved, it would be difficult to develop a curriculum that reflects the needs of
the social forces existing in society. i<lnally, for further improvement on the
practice of curriculum development for primary education in Oromia Regional
State, specializing the curriculum experts in the area of curriculum development
process, facilitating the task of curriculum work with the necessary materials,
transferring the library from Saris to the present location of Oromia Regional
Education Bureau with better facility and making conducive the working space of
curriculum experts are some suggestions forwarded by the researcher.
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Curriculum Development For Primary Education