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Primary and Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Reform is a ringing song as Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora sets forth the initial phases of the new curriculum.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Minister Dokora has come across as a perpetual revolutionary for entering into force a series of reforms in recent months, but there is a reference point behind the changes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The ministry is implementing the <\/span>Curriculum<\/span> Framework for Primary and Secondary Education over the next seven years, with a view of making education equal to the challenges of a globalised century.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The framework presents new learning areas and cross-cutting themes set to the dual design of building accomplished citizens while driving national development in the increasingly competitive global context.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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And now, as the revolution takes shape in earnest, Minister Dokora is extending the hand of fellowship to education development partners whom he says must align their contributions with the needs of the new curriculum.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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This week, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education convened a stakeholders\u2019 meeting in Harare under the theme \u201cNew Curriculum: Collaborative Engagement with Stakeholders for Quality Education.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Various arms of the ministry met representatives from a cross-section of stakeholders including development partners, tertiary institutions, children\u2019s organisations, para-church ministries, publishers, booksellers and technoprenuers to map new collaboration terms. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The ministry articulated the new curriculum and stakeholders deliberated on how they can contribute meaningfully to the new dispensation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Primary and Education Ministry permanent secretary Dr Sylvia Utete-Masango said collaboration was requisite for the success of the new curriculum.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cAs can be appreciated, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education endeavours to engage stakeholders at every stage the implementation of the new curriculum,\u201d Dr Utete-Masango said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cIn 2015, the ministry embarked on a mapping exercise to identify stakeholders and came up with 392 partners, 126 of whom have memoranda of understanding with the ministry at national level, 58 at provincial level, 72 at district level and the rest at school level,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Dr Utete-Masango said the partnerships in areas such as health and child care, fees, non-formal education, infrastructure, climate change, income generation, child rights, inclusion, counselling and guidance, psycho-motor and religion are needed for the ministry to meet its set objectives.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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She said the diverse background and expertise of the stakeholders must be strategically realigned in the dispensation of the new curriculum. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cZimbabwe has an obligation to provide citizens with quality education that will transform their lives. It behoves the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and stakeholders to create the enabling conditions for this kind of education,\u201d Dr Utete-Masango said. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Teacher capacity development has come out as an area of emphasis. The ministry has tasked universities to train teachers in line with the curriculum framework.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Bindura University of Science Education is training teachers in science and technology; \u00a0Great Zimbabwe University, languages and early childhood development (ECD); University of Zimbabwe, infrastructure development, technical and vocational education; Zimbabwe Open University, ECD and teacher education; Midlands State University, teacher education and information and communication technology (ICT); and Lupane State University, teacher education and agriculture. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Minister Lazarus Dokora said the changes his ministry has lined up are widely consulted despite the scathing criticism which has been levelled against him on social media for allegedly coming up with overnight decisions. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cThere were spaces for consultation during the curriculum review process. Schools and community halls were opened up for consultation. We also received written material and Whatsapp messages,\u201d Minister Dokora said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cThere were two contending tendencies during the consultative process. One group asked: \u2018Why change things that are good?\u2019 The other group said: \u2018We need to be relevant; we need skills\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201c\u2018What are these children going to do after graduating with 10s? Is it enough for them to graduate into selling airtime, with literacy for typing on Whatsapp?\u2019 The consultative process provoked an interesting debate about reform, skills and relevance,\u201d Minister Dokora added. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The ministry developed a draft document for further review, incorporating contribution by the different populations. The resulting curriculum process was ratified by Parliament on September 22 last year and launched the following month. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Minister Dokora said that even at the current stage, it is necessary to bring everyone to the forum to tap the best of every world for the enrichment of the education sector. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cGovernment calls for a joint acquisition for resources for teacher capacity development, research, ICT and infrastructure development. Teachers\u2019 posts are not under threat. Every teacher is necessary but they have to embrace the new methods,\u201d Minister Dokora said. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The minister insists that the process underway is making a new curriculum instead of making an old curriculum new.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cPublishers are already at work in the development of new learning material. We do not desire to get sugarcoated material. Publishers cannot take a book that was being used before, change the cover and call it new. We are not going to transform on old classics,\u201d Minister Dokora said. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Publishers and booksellers in attendance, including ZPH Publishers, College Press, Heritage Publishing House, Consultus Publishing Services, Wesi Booksellers, Mazvitapa Publishers, Oxford University Press and Priority Project Publishers, pledged \u00a0to develop and distribute fresh content set to the needs of the new curriculum.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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They also called for the piracy audits in schools, resumption of regular meetings with the ministry, mobilisation of funding, partnerships for the development of new materials and a budget allocation for the purchase of books from Treasury in order to incentivise the book value chain. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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During the roundtable deliberations, ICT companies also pledged to help make the ministry\u2019s database and websites functional and up to the minute, develop and deploy new content and e-learning packages, improve the financial management systems, create educational applications and procure technological infrastructure. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cWe also need to collaborate with partners in the area of infrastructure development. We have mission schools and company schools in the country. We need their infrastructure to expand and accommodate the growing population,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cI am also going to engage the Chinese more aggressively so that while they are doing other things in the country, they can be investing in our education, building schools for us,\u201d he added. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The minister said development partners had to enter into schools through the designated channels in order to forestall confusion. He made reference to recent reports about mandatory HIV testing in schools without his ministry being privy to the programme. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cThe curriculum framework will transform education in tandem with Zim-Asset. We need to develop a participatory citizenship, equip students for leadership and set the basis for peace and co-existence,\u201d Minister Dokora said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The ministry has projected critical thinking, problem solving, leadership, communication skills, technological aptitude, financial literacy, media literacy, patriotism and engagement with national symbols as exit profiles under the new curriculum. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Minister Dokora, however, lamented that non-formal education, a new emphasis point in the new curriculum, was still huge challenge. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cI was meeting 166 school heads recently and inquired into progress made in the area of non-formal education. Only two out of the 166 heads had applied to be considered as open centres for non-formal education,\u201d he minister.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The minister lamented that old habits are dying hard as not everyone in the sector is excited about the changes but said everyone will catch on in time. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The ministry has also put in place the Centre for Research, Innovation and Development which Minister Dokora said will be the fulcrum will revolve around for a long time. At present, the centre has the capacity for 215 researchers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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In an apparent response to the Ministry of Higher Education\u2019s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) drive, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has dropped a new sound bite called Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM), arguing that \u201chalf is not enough.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Arts education, encompassing expressive arts and humanities, will be an integral part of the new curriculum with new subjects like Visual and Performing Arts where students will grapple with genres such as painting, music, dance and theatre from Early Childhood Development (ECD) upwards. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cDominic Benhura is known worldwide and has done country proud as a sculptor but no school is teaching sculpture. The natural intelligence of our people took them to the world stage,\u201d Minister Dokora said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cMusicians like Tocky Vibes never ascribe their careers to teachers. They only mention their mothers. In the absence of formal training, mothers are the ones giving us the likes of Tocky Vibes. Chipawo (Children\u2019s Performing Arts Workshop) operates as an NGO, a misfit in the system operating on the periphery,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The minister also lamented failure by schools to take seriously their mandate to nurture sporting talent. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cSchool heads are the first to complain about Zimbabwe not winning trophies. They are quick to blame poverty when they are the ones using Physical Education slot to revise Maths,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Family Values, Religious and Moral Education is also a new (or rather newly updated) subject under the new curriculum. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cIt is fundamental that we restore family values. \u2018What constitutes family? Is there such a thing as extended family?\u2019 Young people live with those nearest to them and education calls them strangers,\u201d Minister Dokora said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cWe need a paradigm shift relocate ourselves in our own space. Haralambos, now going into the 40th<\/sup> edition, is busy still perpetuating these things. We need locally developed content to speak to local values even if that will take time,\u201d the minister said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Family, religious and moral educators, including Scripture Union, pledged to help in teacher capacity development by encouraging ethics, and to create leadership training programmes to encourage integrity and team-building skills.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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They also offered to develop sexual and reproductive health modules, HIV\/AIDS awareness programmes and guidance and counselling. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Acting director of Primary and Secondary Education Mr Peter Muzavazi called for strategic alignment of efforts by all different stakeholders, resolution of discord and clarity of objectives.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cGoing forward, there is no them and us but collaboration, not for its sake but to ensure that quality education objectives are achieved. Inclusive education for socio-economic transformation,\u201d Muzavazi said. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cThere is need to identify areas of collaboration between the ministry of education and stakeholders within the new curriculum, so that resources are mobilised efficiently. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cWe are mapping out the magnitude of collaborative efforts, sharing modalities for collaborations and creating understanding for effective synergies,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Primary and Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora Reform is a ringing song as Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora sets forth the initial phases of the new curriculum. Minister Dokora has come across as a perpetual revolutionary for entering into force a series of reforms in recent months, but there is a reference point behind the changes. The ministry is implementing the Curriculum Framework for Primary and Secondary Education over the next seven years, with a view of making education equal to the challenges of a globalised century. The framework presents new learning areas and cross-cutting themes set to the dual design of building accomplished citizens while driving national development in the increasingly competitive global context. And now, as the revolution takes shape in earnest, Minister Dokora is extending the hand of fellowship to education development partners whom he says must align their contributions with the needs of the new curriculum. This week, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education convened a stakeholders\u2019 meeting in Harare under the theme \u201cNew Curriculum: Collaborative Engagement with Stakeholders for Quality Education.\u201d Various arms of the ministry met representatives from a cross-section of stakeholders including development partners, tertiary institutions, children\u2019s organisations, para-church ministries, publishers, booksellers and technoprenuers to map new collaboration terms. The ministry articulated the new curriculum and stakeholders deliberated on how they can contribute meaningfully to the new dispensation. Primary and Education Ministry permanent secretary Dr Sylvia Utete-Masango said collaboration was requisite for the success of the new curriculum. \u201cAs can be appreciated, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education endeavours to engage stakeholders at every stage the implementation of the new curriculum,\u201d Dr Utete-Masango said. \u201cIn 2015, the ministry embarked on a mapping exercise to identify stakeholders and came up with 392 partners, 126 of whom have memoranda of understanding with the ministry at national level, 58 at provincial level, 72 at district level and the rest at school level,\u201d she said. Dr Utete-Masango said the partnerships in areas such as health and child care, fees, non-formal education, infrastructure, climate change, income generation, child rights, inclusion, counselling and guidance, psycho-motor and religion are needed for the ministry to meet its set objectives. She said the diverse background and expertise of the stakeholders must be strategically realigned in the dispensation of the new curriculum. \u00a0 \u201cZimbabwe has an obligation to provide citizens with quality education that will transform their lives. It behoves the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and stakeholders to create the enabling conditions for this kind of education,\u201d Dr Utete-Masango said. \u00a0 Teacher capacity development has come out as an area of emphasis. The ministry has tasked universities to train teachers in line with the curriculum framework. Bindura University of Science Education is training teachers in science and technology; \u00a0Great Zimbabwe University, languages and early childhood development (ECD); University of Zimbabwe, infrastructure development, technical and vocational education; Zimbabwe Open University, ECD and teacher education; Midlands State University, teacher education and information and communication technology (ICT); and Lupane State University, teacher education and agriculture. Minister Lazarus Dokora said the changes his ministry has lined up are widely consulted despite the scathing criticism which has been levelled against him on social media for allegedly coming up with overnight decisions. \u201cThere were spaces for consultation during the curriculum review process. Schools and community halls were opened up for consultation. We also received written material and Whatsapp messages,\u201d Minister Dokora said. \u201cThere were two contending tendencies during the consultative process. One group asked: \u2018Why change things that are good?\u2019 The other group said: \u2018We need to be relevant; we need skills\u2019 \u201c\u2018What are these children going to do after graduating with 10s? Is it enough for them to graduate into selling airtime, with literacy for typing on Whatsapp?\u2019 The consultative process provoked an interesting debate about reform, skills and relevance,\u201d Minister Dokora added. The ministry developed a draft document for further review, incorporating contribution by the different populations. The resulting curriculum process was ratified by Parliament on September 22 last year and launched the following month. Minister Dokora said that even at the current stage, it is necessary to bring everyone to the forum to tap the best of every world for the enrichment of the education sector. \u201cGovernment calls for a joint acquisition for resources for teacher capacity development, research, ICT and infrastructure development. Teachers\u2019 posts are not under threat. Every teacher is necessary but they have to embrace the new methods,\u201d Minister Dokora said. The minister insists that the process underway is making a new curriculum instead of making an old curriculum new. \u201cPublishers are already at work in the development of new learning material. We do not desire to get sugarcoated material. Publishers cannot take a book that was being used before, change the cover and call it new. We are not going to transform on old classics,\u201d Minister Dokora said. Publishers and booksellers in attendance, including ZPH Publishers, College Press, Heritage Publishing House, Consultus Publishing Services, Wesi Booksellers, Mazvitapa Publishers, Oxford University Press and Priority Project Publishers, pledged \u00a0to develop and distribute fresh content set to the needs of the new curriculum. They also called for the piracy audits in schools, resumption of regular meetings with the ministry, mobilisation of funding, partnerships for the development of new materials and a budget allocation for the purchase of books from Treasury in order to incentivise the book value chain. During the roundtable deliberations, ICT companies also pledged to help make the ministry\u2019s database and websites functional and up to the minute, develop and deploy new content and e-learning packages, improve the financial management systems, create educational applications and procure technological infrastructure. \u201cWe also need to collaborate with partners in the area of infrastructure development. We have mission schools and company schools in the country. We need their infrastructure to expand and accommodate the growing population,\u201d he said. \u201cI am also going to engage the Chinese more aggressively so that while they are doing other things in the country,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"yoast_head":"\nDokora Extends the Right Hand of Fellowship | Blockspace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/?p=387\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dokora Extends the Right Hand of Fellowship | Blockspace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Primary and Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora Reform is a ringing song as Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora sets forth the initial phases of the new curriculum. Minister Dokora has come across as a perpetual revolutionary for entering into force a series of reforms in recent months, but there is a reference point behind the changes. The ministry is implementing the Curriculum Framework for Primary and Secondary Education over the next seven years, with a view of making education equal to the challenges of a globalised century. The framework presents new learning areas and cross-cutting themes set to the dual design of building accomplished citizens while driving national development in the increasingly competitive global context. And now, as the revolution takes shape in earnest, Minister Dokora is extending the hand of fellowship to education development partners whom he says must align their contributions with the needs of the new curriculum. This week, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education convened a stakeholders\u2019 meeting in Harare under the theme \u201cNew Curriculum: Collaborative Engagement with Stakeholders for Quality Education.\u201d Various arms of the ministry met representatives from a cross-section of stakeholders including development partners, tertiary institutions, children\u2019s organisations, para-church ministries, publishers, booksellers and technoprenuers to map new collaboration terms. The ministry articulated the new curriculum and stakeholders deliberated on how they can contribute meaningfully to the new dispensation. Primary and Education Ministry permanent secretary Dr Sylvia Utete-Masango said collaboration was requisite for the success of the new curriculum. \u201cAs can be appreciated, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education endeavours to engage stakeholders at every stage the implementation of the new curriculum,\u201d Dr Utete-Masango said. \u201cIn 2015, the ministry embarked on a mapping exercise to identify stakeholders and came up with 392 partners, 126 of whom have memoranda of understanding with the ministry at national level, 58 at provincial level, 72 at district level and the rest at school level,\u201d she said. Dr Utete-Masango said the partnerships in areas such as health and child care, fees, non-formal education, infrastructure, climate change, income generation, child rights, inclusion, counselling and guidance, psycho-motor and religion are needed for the ministry to meet its set objectives. She said the diverse background and expertise of the stakeholders must be strategically realigned in the dispensation of the new curriculum. \u00a0 \u201cZimbabwe has an obligation to provide citizens with quality education that will transform their lives. It behoves the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and stakeholders to create the enabling conditions for this kind of education,\u201d Dr Utete-Masango said. \u00a0 Teacher capacity development has come out as an area of emphasis. The ministry has tasked universities to train teachers in line with the curriculum framework. Bindura University of Science Education is training teachers in science and technology; \u00a0Great Zimbabwe University, languages and early childhood development (ECD); University of Zimbabwe, infrastructure development, technical and vocational education; Zimbabwe Open University, ECD and teacher education; Midlands State University, teacher education and information and communication technology (ICT); and Lupane State University, teacher education and agriculture. Minister Lazarus Dokora said the changes his ministry has lined up are widely consulted despite the scathing criticism which has been levelled against him on social media for allegedly coming up with overnight decisions. \u201cThere were spaces for consultation during the curriculum review process. Schools and community halls were opened up for consultation. We also received written material and Whatsapp messages,\u201d Minister Dokora said. \u201cThere were two contending tendencies during the consultative process. One group asked: \u2018Why change things that are good?\u2019 The other group said: \u2018We need to be relevant; we need skills\u2019 \u201c\u2018What are these children going to do after graduating with 10s? Is it enough for them to graduate into selling airtime, with literacy for typing on Whatsapp?\u2019 The consultative process provoked an interesting debate about reform, skills and relevance,\u201d Minister Dokora added. The ministry developed a draft document for further review, incorporating contribution by the different populations. The resulting curriculum process was ratified by Parliament on September 22 last year and launched the following month. Minister Dokora said that even at the current stage, it is necessary to bring everyone to the forum to tap the best of every world for the enrichment of the education sector. \u201cGovernment calls for a joint acquisition for resources for teacher capacity development, research, ICT and infrastructure development. Teachers\u2019 posts are not under threat. Every teacher is necessary but they have to embrace the new methods,\u201d Minister Dokora said. The minister insists that the process underway is making a new curriculum instead of making an old curriculum new. \u201cPublishers are already at work in the development of new learning material. We do not desire to get sugarcoated material. Publishers cannot take a book that was being used before, change the cover and call it new. We are not going to transform on old classics,\u201d Minister Dokora said. Publishers and booksellers in attendance, including ZPH Publishers, College Press, Heritage Publishing House, Consultus Publishing Services, Wesi Booksellers, Mazvitapa Publishers, Oxford University Press and Priority Project Publishers, pledged \u00a0to develop and distribute fresh content set to the needs of the new curriculum. They also called for the piracy audits in schools, resumption of regular meetings with the ministry, mobilisation of funding, partnerships for the development of new materials and a budget allocation for the purchase of books from Treasury in order to incentivise the book value chain. During the roundtable deliberations, ICT companies also pledged to help make the ministry\u2019s database and websites functional and up to the minute, develop and deploy new content and e-learning packages, improve the financial management systems, create educational applications and procure technological infrastructure. \u201cWe also need to collaborate with partners in the area of infrastructure development. We have mission schools and company schools in the country. 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Minister Dokora has come across as a perpetual revolutionary for entering into force a series of reforms in recent months, but there is a reference point behind the changes. The ministry is implementing the Curriculum Framework for Primary and Secondary Education over the next seven years, with a view of making education equal to the challenges of a globalised century. The framework presents new learning areas and cross-cutting themes set to the dual design of building accomplished citizens while driving national development in the increasingly competitive global context. And now, as the revolution takes shape in earnest, Minister Dokora is extending the hand of fellowship to education development partners whom he says must align their contributions with the needs of the new curriculum. This week, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education convened a stakeholders\u2019 meeting in Harare under the theme \u201cNew Curriculum: Collaborative Engagement with Stakeholders for Quality Education.\u201d Various arms of the ministry met representatives from a cross-section of stakeholders including development partners, tertiary institutions, children\u2019s organisations, para-church ministries, publishers, booksellers and technoprenuers to map new collaboration terms. The ministry articulated the new curriculum and stakeholders deliberated on how they can contribute meaningfully to the new dispensation. Primary and Education Ministry permanent secretary Dr Sylvia Utete-Masango said collaboration was requisite for the success of the new curriculum. \u201cAs can be appreciated, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education endeavours to engage stakeholders at every stage the implementation of the new curriculum,\u201d Dr Utete-Masango said. \u201cIn 2015, the ministry embarked on a mapping exercise to identify stakeholders and came up with 392 partners, 126 of whom have memoranda of understanding with the ministry at national level, 58 at provincial level, 72 at district level and the rest at school level,\u201d she said. Dr Utete-Masango said the partnerships in areas such as health and child care, fees, non-formal education, infrastructure, climate change, income generation, child rights, inclusion, counselling and guidance, psycho-motor and religion are needed for the ministry to meet its set objectives. She said the diverse background and expertise of the stakeholders must be strategically realigned in the dispensation of the new curriculum. \u00a0 \u201cZimbabwe has an obligation to provide citizens with quality education that will transform their lives. It behoves the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and stakeholders to create the enabling conditions for this kind of education,\u201d Dr Utete-Masango said. \u00a0 Teacher capacity development has come out as an area of emphasis. The ministry has tasked universities to train teachers in line with the curriculum framework. Bindura University of Science Education is training teachers in science and technology; \u00a0Great Zimbabwe University, languages and early childhood development (ECD); University of Zimbabwe, infrastructure development, technical and vocational education; Zimbabwe Open University, ECD and teacher education; Midlands State University, teacher education and information and communication technology (ICT); and Lupane State University, teacher education and agriculture. Minister Lazarus Dokora said the changes his ministry has lined up are widely consulted despite the scathing criticism which has been levelled against him on social media for allegedly coming up with overnight decisions. \u201cThere were spaces for consultation during the curriculum review process. Schools and community halls were opened up for consultation. We also received written material and Whatsapp messages,\u201d Minister Dokora said. \u201cThere were two contending tendencies during the consultative process. One group asked: \u2018Why change things that are good?\u2019 The other group said: \u2018We need to be relevant; we need skills\u2019 \u201c\u2018What are these children going to do after graduating with 10s? Is it enough for them to graduate into selling airtime, with literacy for typing on Whatsapp?\u2019 The consultative process provoked an interesting debate about reform, skills and relevance,\u201d Minister Dokora added. The ministry developed a draft document for further review, incorporating contribution by the different populations. The resulting curriculum process was ratified by Parliament on September 22 last year and launched the following month. Minister Dokora said that even at the current stage, it is necessary to bring everyone to the forum to tap the best of every world for the enrichment of the education sector. \u201cGovernment calls for a joint acquisition for resources for teacher capacity development, research, ICT and infrastructure development. Teachers\u2019 posts are not under threat. Every teacher is necessary but they have to embrace the new methods,\u201d Minister Dokora said. The minister insists that the process underway is making a new curriculum instead of making an old curriculum new. \u201cPublishers are already at work in the development of new learning material. We do not desire to get sugarcoated material. Publishers cannot take a book that was being used before, change the cover and call it new. We are not going to transform on old classics,\u201d Minister Dokora said. Publishers and booksellers in attendance, including ZPH Publishers, College Press, Heritage Publishing House, Consultus Publishing Services, Wesi Booksellers, Mazvitapa Publishers, Oxford University Press and Priority Project Publishers, pledged \u00a0to develop and distribute fresh content set to the needs of the new curriculum. They also called for the piracy audits in schools, resumption of regular meetings with the ministry, mobilisation of funding, partnerships for the development of new materials and a budget allocation for the purchase of books from Treasury in order to incentivise the book value chain. During the roundtable deliberations, ICT companies also pledged to help make the ministry\u2019s database and websites functional and up to the minute, develop and deploy new content and e-learning packages, improve the financial management systems, create educational applications and procure technological infrastructure. \u201cWe also need to collaborate with partners in the area of infrastructure development. We have mission schools and company schools in the country. We need their infrastructure to expand and accommodate the growing population,\u201d he said. \u201cI am also going to engage the Chinese more aggressively so that while they are doing other things in the country,","og_url":"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/?p=387","og_site_name":"Blockspace","article_published_time":"2016-06-16T17:37:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-10-24T16:11:35+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.herald.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Primary-and-Secondary-Education-minister-Lazarus-Dokora.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"hardsouth","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"hardsouth","Est. reading time":"8 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