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Dr Dokora

Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter
The new education curriculum framework adopted by Government seeks to impart practical skills to pupils for them to benefit directly from the many empowerment initiatives launched since independence, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora said yesterday.

He was addressing a caucus of zanu-PF legislators at the party’s headquarters in Harare.

“The present curriculum framework gives expression to the national efforts and aspirations as reflected in Zim-Asset,” Dr Dokora said.

“The ministry seeks to actualise empowerment programmes as the basis for a new economy and complete our efforts for self-determination following the political independence we achieved in 1980.”

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He said the new curriculum was aimed at fostering a sense of national pride among pupils.

“We want to prepare them for life and work and not just being theoretical. We want to motivate learners to cherish their Zimbabwean identity and value their heritage and cultural traditions and prepare them for participatory citizens,” he said.

The minister said Government had adopted a number of empowerment programmes that young people in school should get involved in, adding it was important to teach them practical knowledge from an early stage.

The new curriculum framework runs from this year to 2022 and forms part of the implementation of the recommendations of the Nziramasanga Commission of Inquiry into Education and Training.

Dr Dokora said the framework was based on five pillars, namely the legal and regulatory framework, teacher capacity and development, teacher professional standards, infrastructure development and the establishment of a Centre for Education Research and Innovation and Development.

He said it was important that there be continued training of teachers and standardisation of professional standards to impart requisite knowledge and skills to their pupils.

To this end, the minister said, a professional teaching council would be established to come up with the required standards teachers should adhere to.