Political Factors Influence Curriculum Design.pptx 512bk

TSL 3143 POLITICAL FACTORS INFLUENCE CURRICULUM DESIGN LECTURER: MDM.FAZIAH BINTI ABD.KARIM PRESENTER: MOHD.SHAIFUDDIN B.RAZALI SITI HAJAR BT. ZAID@SAHID SITI NABIHAH BT.MUSTAFFA NAJWA ADIBAH BT.BUKARI NUR AZIMAH BT.MD.SALLEH

Politics determine and define the goals, content, learning experiences and evaluation strategies in education. • Consider the national policy. eg: National Development Policy (NDP) was introduced to replace NEP,in 1991.

• Determines the kind of education we want to offer and the society we need to build by 2020. eg : Smart School-develop skilled work force for the information age.

• Goals of Smart School a. b. c. d.

Produce thinking & technology literate workforce. Provide all-round development of individual(JERIS). Increase participants of stakeholders. Democratise education.

Curricular materials & their interpretation are usually heavily influenced by political consideration. • Issue of changing curriculum: - after the curriculum evaluation is over ->judge whether the curriculum is appropriate or not; if not then it has to be changed or modified. • The one with the mandate to change the curriculum is the government through the ministry of education. • Sometimes this takes place  without proper notification to all stakeholders like teachers and parents.

Political considerations may play a part in the hiring of personnel. • Government have the mandate of training and hiring new personnel like teacher, it determines how many teacher have to be employed each year. e.g : IPG, public Universities and collaboration private Colleges to train teachers so as to cut down the shortage of teachers • English Native Speaker Mentoring Programme  - Cost RM1.9 million, involves 360 mentors from three appointed companies – SMR Group, Brighton Education Group and British Council Malaysia – which provided 120 mentors each. - To improve English Language proficiency.

• Retain the employees by motivating them and offering them attractive remuneration. - The MBMMBI Policy - Carried out in schools through reinstating the Malay Language as the -- medium of learning and teaching science and mathematics, increasing the proficiency of Malay Language and English Language through extra teaching and learning periods. - Increase in teaching capacity and human resource - TESL for SJKC,PITO Programme.

Funding of education is greatly influenced by politics. • A governments’ financial resources depend in part or the condition  of the economy. • Freedom to allocate funds in accordance with its own changing priorities. • Current rapid rise in educational expenditure due to increase in school , colleges and universities, hence high enrollment rate, which lead into failure for the government to supply enough fund.

Entry into educational institutions and the examination systems are heavily influenced by politics. • The politics of education. - The distribution of power and the organization of decision making affect outcomes in education. • istration and monitoring. - The government exerts its influence to the education system through government appointees(school boards, district and regional education officers). - They fix their eye on schools and institutions, istering and monitoring the instructors (teachers). - All these are done to suit the interests of politicians.

• A certificate is centrally controlled • Certificate : indicates subjects learned and how performed by students compared to others who are taking the same courses. • MOE (under leadership of politicians ) only body responsible for issuing certificates • Change the entry requirement depending on the performance of students & requirements of the nation in specific time.

References Kayeji, A. M. (2013 , February 27). Science Improvement Initiative in Tanzania . Retrieved from Why Curriculum is regarded as a Political activity?: http://anthomata43.blog.com/2013/02/27/whycurriculum-isregarded-as-a-political-activities/