1st Edition

Globalisation and Education Policy Reform in Botswana

By Richard Tabulawa Copyright 2024
248 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book uses the global–local dialect approach to explicate education policy reform in Botswana and interrogates the practical effects of the various education policies on curriculum, pedagogy and governance of the Botswana General Education system. Considering the effect of three reform policies since Botswana’s Independence in 1966, the book evaluates the performance of each of the policies... Read more

1. Pre-1966 State of Education: Neglected and Fragmented  

2. Globalisation and Education Policy Reform  

3. National Policy on Education (NPE): Growth, Stability, then Crisis  

4. Contextualising the Revised National Policy on Education (RNPE)  

5. The Revised National Policy on Eduction (RNPE): Botswana’s Response to (Neoliberal) Globalisation  

6. Education and Training Sector Strategic Plan (ETSSP): Addressing the Education–Economy Dislocation?  

7. ETSSP: Critical Reflections

Biography

Richard Tabulawa is Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Botswana. He has also acted as Director at the Centre for Continuing Education and Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs (January 2022 to December 2022). He is the author of Teaching and Learning in Context: Why Pedagogical Reforms Fail in Sub-Saharan Africa (CODESRIA, 2013).