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Monday, February 04, 2008

(Re)thinking outcomes-based education: from aborescent to rhizomatic conceptions of outcomes (based-education) - Lesley Le Grange

The year 2007 is the tenth anniversary of the launch of South Africa's outcomes-based education curriculum. Despite revisons that have occurred over the past ten years, the underlying approach to the national curriculum frameworks has remained outcomes-based education. Outcomes-based education has been the subject of fierce contestation in South Africa. Ten years down the line I therefore revisit some of the theoretical arguments levelled against outcomes-based education and also argue that outcomes-based education could be the carrier of alternative constellations of universes. This might be possible if outcomes(-based education) is viewed rhizomatically rather than arborescently.
From: Perspectives in Education, Vol. 25 (4), December 2007

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