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State starts delivery of books on new curriculum

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GOVERNMENT says it has started distributing books for the revised junior education curriculum in all provinces.

The Ministry of Education has introduced a new curriculum in which civics, geography and history have been fused into one subject, social studies at Junior Secondary level.

Ministry of Education spokesperson Hilary Chipango said in an interview that Government started distributing books for the new curriculum last week.

He said vehicles have been dispatched to distribute books adding, all schools around the country will soon have them.

Mr Chipango said the delay in distribution of books of the new syllabus was as a result of a court injunction filed by publishers it engaged to distribute the books.

“Publishing houses filed in an injunction after Government only engaged them to distribute books and not in printing them. They wanted to be engaged in printing the books as well,” Mr Chipango said.

He said Government was however happy that the court ruled in its favour.

Teachers and pupils in various schools have expressed concern over delayed distribution of books for the new curriculum at junior secondary level.
Some teachers said this will affect the performance of pupils hence the need for the Ministry of Education to speed up the process.

A check in some public Schools around Lusaka revealed that teachers were still using the old text books instead of the revised ones.

11 COMMENTS

  1. Why not just have one subject, infuse all subjects into one. Easy to study one subject for an exam. Can some experts, teachers elaborate more on the development. It’s seems Sara’s legacy is haunting us.

    • @2 BECAUSE IN ZAMBIA A CHAP JUST DREAMS AND THE NEXT MORNING WHAT HE DREAMED BECOME LAWS. CIVICS, GEOGRAPHY, AND HISTORY WOULD HAVE JUST BEEN POLISHED UP WITH THE IDEA OF IMPROVING THE CERTAIN SOCIO-ECONOMIC SECTORS OF THE COUNTRY. EG, CIVICS WOULD BEEN IMPROVED TO EMPHASIZE CIVIC RIGHTS AND LAWS-keeping surrounding hygienically clean, the need to register as voter when 1 qualifies. GEOGRAPHY would have emphasised the need to know Zambia and SADC areas in detail rather than Canada, America and Europe. HISTORY to know Zambia’s (+SADC, slavery) history in deatil as compared to 1st and 2nd world wars. MIND YOU APART FROM A MENTION THAT SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED BY THE BRITISH IN 1833 (or was it just an Act). REALLY, TOURISM AS A SUBJECT RIGHT FROM FROM NURSERY TO UNI SHOULD VE BEEN INTRODUCED.

  2. What’s the rationale behind this fusion? What material has been distilled out of three subjects that run for two years in their own right? That’s like throwing away two-thirds of material from each subject. What then replaces the two lost subjects? Hope IT is made compulsory with the required funding.

  3. When we say there are no books in schools to implement new curriculum, you think we hate the pf or we are upnd.
    Children in G9 will write exams on based on new curric.including what they did not learn last year in G8. Same applies to Grades 2,5 and 6 which up to now have no text books(instructional materials).
    It is an insult for teachers to ask the DEBS’ offices about new teaching materials. Trs forced to research on syllabi content which they end up teaching subjectively.
    No objective teaching taking place in schools for Grades 2,5and6.
    Concerned stakeholders and news media houses visit schools including rural schools and see for yourselves the damage caused by pf govt.
    Allow teaching materials to be made available and accessible by allowing private printers to make and sell…

    • @4. THE GRZ DOESN’T WRITE BOOKS AND BOOKS WRITING IS BIG BUSINESS. THE GRZ HAS INVITED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS TO WRITE ACADEMIC BOOKS. WHY KEEP ON BLAMING PF IF YOU HAVE NEVER WRITTEN A BOOK. ASK YOURSELF WHY ZAMBIA SHOULD KEEP ON IMPORTING ACADEMIC BOOKS FOR SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WHEN THE SAME BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY INDIVIDUALS FROM THE EXPORTING COUNTRIES. WHY DO WE FAIL TO WRITE EVEN ABOUT OUR OWN HISTORY? WHY DO WE LET ANOTHER PERSON WRITE OUR HISTORY. TO BE HONEST, THE WRITERS OF HISTORY ON SLAVERY HAVE MASSIVELY DOWN-PLAYED IT FOR THE FEAR OF EMBARRASSMENT. THIS IS COS AFRICANS CAN’T WRITE THEIR OWN HISTORY.

  4. This was Sata’s confusion.

    Can government just retract this confusion Please. Please President Lungu, retract the confusion.

    Sata never studied the split subjects and all he remembered was a subject called Social Studies, which he failed.

    Can civil society rise please, you can’t extend confusion which was based on chronic ignorance to be a baseline for a country like Zambia.

    No teacher, No educationist, no one has been able to explain the benefits of this new but old subject called social studies in the current learning atmosphere.

    We can’t carry the legacy of confusion. No we can’t.

  5. It is too late.My daugther is in Grade 9.There are changes mostly in two subjects.Civics,geography and history are now one subject called Social Studies.O Practice and Book Keeping are also one subject called Business Studies.Not even Teachers know the syllubi of these subject and then Art has just been introduced as a new subject.The perfomance of pupils in exams will depend on the schools understanding of the new syllubus, and not on the pupils brains.The new syllubus was suppose to be introduced after putting everything in place.There is total confusion in schools and time has run out.I encourage whoever is interested to do a reseach on this subject matter and publish the findings.IT IS A SCANDLE!

  6. @Peter 4.1 actually in Zambia the curriculum at primary and junior secondary school and books used at these levels are all written, published and distributed under government directives. There is no other channel and source of material available to teachers. Any failure in the system falls directly on the government’s hands. PF are in control and we will wait and see.

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