Diffusion of the National Qualifications Framework and outcomes-based education in southern and eastern Africa
SOURCE: Comparative Education
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2007
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.Chisholm
KEYWORDS: EASTERN AFRICA, NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK, SOUTHERN AFRICA
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 4561
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6101
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6101
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2007
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.Chisholm
KEYWORDS: EASTERN AFRICA, NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK, SOUTHERN AFRICA
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 4561
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6101
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6101
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Abstract
This article explores policy and curriculum diffusion in southern and eastern Africa through an examination of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and outcomes-based education. The article argues that the NQF was adopted for different reasons in different contexts, but that discourse coalitions and conferences have been critical in spreading these ideas in a new regional political and economic context. It shows how South Africans have tried to export the idea at the very moment when evidence is revealing little relationship between policy intention and outcome, it is contested at home, and there is a retreat from it in some sectors of education.-
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