This qualitative study was undertaken to investigate how district officials implemented Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement in the Vhembe West District in South Africa.Interview data were collected and used for...This qualitative study was undertaken to investigate how district officials implemented Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement in the Vhembe West District in South Africa.Interview data were collected and used for themes identification.The study identified the following challenges that the district officials experienced as they performed their duties:insufficient resources,lack of finances to buy learning and teaching support materials,infrastructure failures,the district’s inadequate support to schools,shortage of district officials in certain disciplines,unclear roles,lack of collaboration,unavailability of followup visits,the shortage of computers for the district officials and teacher support materials,bribery and corruption of selling principalship posts,slow filling of district officials posts,and inappropriate skills for school management and leadership.The study concluded that qualified district officials should be appointed,ongoing support from the Department of Basic Education and provision of resources in ensuring smooth curriculum implementation is needed,and bribery and corruption should be stopped when school principal appointments are made.This study also concludes that the district officials should be continuously capacitated so that they should be able to meet curriculum challenges,and the Department of Basic Education should speed up the curriculum delivery by ensuring that the vacancies are filled up.展开更多
First, emphasis was given to the analysis on the practices of ecological civilization construction in Wudang District, and then the Wudang mode of ecological civilization construction was discussed and summarized from...First, emphasis was given to the analysis on the practices of ecological civilization construction in Wudang District, and then the Wudang mode of ecological civilization construction was discussed and summarized from the aspects of implementation process, implementation path, and implementation dynamics, obtaining the following enlightenments： accelerating the development of ecological economy is the primary task for the ec- ological civilization construction in western counties; optimizing the spatial development pattern is an important means to promote the ecological civi- lization construction scientifically; capturing the acting point is the key factor to realize the win-win of economic development and ecological protection; the overall development of social undertakings to achieve the happiness of people in rural and urban area is the goal of ecological civilization.展开更多
文摘This qualitative study was undertaken to investigate how district officials implemented Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement in the Vhembe West District in South Africa.Interview data were collected and used for themes identification.The study identified the following challenges that the district officials experienced as they performed their duties:insufficient resources,lack of finances to buy learning and teaching support materials,infrastructure failures,the district’s inadequate support to schools,shortage of district officials in certain disciplines,unclear roles,lack of collaboration,unavailability of followup visits,the shortage of computers for the district officials and teacher support materials,bribery and corruption of selling principalship posts,slow filling of district officials posts,and inappropriate skills for school management and leadership.The study concluded that qualified district officials should be appointed,ongoing support from the Department of Basic Education and provision of resources in ensuring smooth curriculum implementation is needed,and bribery and corruption should be stopped when school principal appointments are made.This study also concludes that the district officials should be continuously capacitated so that they should be able to meet curriculum challenges,and the Department of Basic Education should speed up the curriculum delivery by ensuring that the vacancies are filled up.
基金Supported by the Project of Guiyang Provincial Federation of SocialSciences in 2013
文摘First, emphasis was given to the analysis on the practices of ecological civilization construction in Wudang District, and then the Wudang mode of ecological civilization construction was discussed and summarized from the aspects of implementation process, implementation path, and implementation dynamics, obtaining the following enlightenments： accelerating the development of ecological economy is the primary task for the ec- ological civilization construction in western counties; optimizing the spatial development pattern is an important means to promote the ecological civi- lization construction scientifically; capturing the acting point is the key factor to realize the win-win of economic development and ecological protection; the overall development of social undertakings to achieve the happiness of people in rural and urban area is the goal of ecological civilization.
