Historical, Political, and Societal Factors in Curriculum Design That Affect Academic Achievement in Nuba Mountains Region Schools
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2018-09
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Kampala International University, School of Education, Open and Distance and E-learning
Abstract
The study aimed at establishing the historical, political, and societal factors in curriculum
design that affect academic achievement in Nuba Mountains region schools. Other purposes
includes; establishing the historical, political, and societal factors in curriculum design that
affect academic achievement in Nuba Mountains region schools, analyzing how historical,
political, and societal factors in curriculum design affect academic achievement in Nuba
Mountains region schools and establishing the relationship between the historical, political,
and societal factors in curriculum design with the education system in Nuba Mountains
region schools. Study question were answered like; what are the historical, political, and
societal factors in curriculum design that affect academic achievement in Nuba Mountains
region schools?, how do the historical, political, and societal factors in curriculum design
affect academic achievement in Nuba Mountains region schools? and what is the relationship
between the historical, political, and societal factors in curriculum design with the education
system in Nuba Mountains region schools? The sample size will involve 108 respondents as
portrayed by Morgan and Krejcie table which illustrates that if the target population is 1 50,
sample size becomes 108. It was also established that there is too much reliance on foreign
domination for instance language used is Arabic hence it becomes hard for teachers to teach
in other foreign languages like English because students already have that rock of using
Arabic in their teachings. Further majority (73.3%) argued that there is no education in Nuba
Mountains region due to societal factors of not educating kids right from ancestors. In regard
to political factors; majority (86.2%) argued for genocidal activities of the I3ashir government
respectively and (81.7%) argued for too much conflicts as an issue affecting the curriculum.
However when it came to maintenance of heavy military presence majority of the
respondents disagreed with the view because deployment is not too much in Nuba Mountains
as compared to other areas. On the societal factors that affect design majority (86.2%)
respondents argued for ignorance in the area of Nuba, further 8 1.6% of the respondents
argued for the resistance of the system by people and 61.4% were of the view that poverty in
the society affects design of education in Nuba Mountains region. From the findings of the
study, it can be concluded that there is a strong relationship between relationship between the
historical, political and societal factors in curriculum design with the education system in
Nuba Mountains region schools because of the views expressed that politically many people
in Nuba Mountains are illiterates, there is too much reliance on foreign domination for
instance language used is Arabic and that there is no education in Nuba Mountains region,
there is maintenance of heavy military presence, too much conflicts are affecting the
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curriculum, genocidal activities of the Bashir government affects the design, perpetual
violence from the pre-colonial kingdoms affects the education curriculum, resistance of the
system by people, poverty in the society and ignorance in the area. Government should be
supportive ofthe new polices which seem to be creating change towards development of the
area. The government can do this by encouraging the local community to participate in the
activities brought up by everyone especially when they are related to development and
uplifting of the people’s standards of living. Also, the government can support stakeholders
like NGOs involved in such activities through providing security and better infrastructure
such as roads which will improve the movement of service providers. Lastly the government
should set favorable policies, laws and regulatory frame works to disarm people who seem to
be creating insecurity which is one of the challenges to policy implementation.
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A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Education in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Bachelor’s Degree of Education of Kampala International University.
Keywords
Academic Achievement, Historical, Political, and Societal Factors, Nuba Mountains Region