An Assessment of oDL Students Views on the implementation of Zimbabwe's new education curriculum Building and Impact Subtheme Capacity Building and Impact

摘要

Considering that the thrust of the curriculum is premised on the developmentof competences and promotion of national identityincluding inculcating values for capacitydevelopment, ODL institution like Zimbabwe Open University has a role to capacitate practitioners in management. Hence theaim of this study was toassess ODL students' viewson how the Zimbabwean new education curriculum is being implementedand explore implementation strategies for possibilities to enhance capacity building. The quantitative methodology and descriptive survey was used.The population was 120 educational studies students from Mashonaland Central Regional campus A sample of 40 students randomly selected was drawn from the population. Data were collected through the use of a questionnaire. The study revealed that ODLstudents were trained to teach the old curriculum and had vast experience in the education sector. However they were being affected by lack of expertise, negative attitude, and fear of the unknown to implement the new curriculum. Both infrastructure and material resources were a challenge to them. In addition they were experiencing work overload and attended minimal staff development to implement the new curriculum. Parents as stakeholders have negative attitudes towards the new curriculum. The study recommends that there is need to: provideresources,in service teachers,merge curriculum subjects and to make awareness campaigns to parents before implementing the new curriculum so as to enhance capacity building.