Essay On Outcome Based Education

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Introduction
This essay is focusing on curriculum 2005 which is known as Outcome- based Education (OBE). An outcome refers to anything in which an individual can show knowledge or skill. Having information, knowing how to make decisions and how to resolve problems are among likely outcomes that a learner can obtain in a learning environment. The vital outcomes enable the learner to be equipped in life and be able to find employment. A learner, who has learnt how to solve problems, makes decisions and plan will be intelligent to do a better job.
The purpose of schooling is to take learners beyond their personal experiences, and to deliver them with access to powerful, conceptual knowledge that gives them access to further study opportunities and a variety of meaningful work opportunities. (Taylor, 2008) The main focus here is that the implementation of curriculum 2005 principles of knowledge integration and learner- centeredness in many South African classrooms, has led to the view that OBE has failed. Outcome- Based Education is based on a very simple, realistic, logical concept that every one of us uses everyday in our lives. An outcome- based approach means knowing what you want to accomplish and then taking the steps to do so. Curriculum 2005 had 3 features: OBE, integrated knowledge, and learner- centred pedagogy. Curriculum 2005 launched in March 1997, it was first implemented in grade 1 so that by 2005 it will be in grade 9.
Curriculum
• Curriculum is dynamic, ever-changing sequence of planned learning experiences.
• Curriculum is everything learners involvement in school.
• Curriculum is a cultural reproduction in a organized way. It is even more: it should also worth independent rational in the context of the...

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...s. (Taylor, 2008) This statement was to be use as a case study of learner- centred and knowledge integration on curriculum 2005. Knowledge integration is the task of identifying how new and previous knowledge interacts while joining new information into a knowledge base. . Learner- centred is focusing on learner’s discussion without constant instructor monitoring, the teacher provides feedback or correction when questions arise and learners evaluate their own learning. Teachers were also facing challenges of implementing this curriculum, teaching based on curriculum not content anymore. Jansen mentioned ten reasons of why curriculum 2005 will fail and I have mentioned them. Implementation of curriculum is not the same in black schools and white schools. After C2005 failed they introduced new curriculum in 2006 NCS.

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