Volume 12, Number 2

Implementation of the New Senior High School Standards-Based Curriculum in Ghana and Matters Arising: From 21^st Century Skills to a Bipolar Global Problem?

  Authors

David Baaman Laar, Ghana

  Abstract

Education is an essential vehicle that could be used to promote the development drive of developing countries including Ghana. This is because education imbibe in the citizens useful cultural traits including knowledge, values, attitudes and skills. A combination of internal and external factors however, combine to limit the levels of educational attainment for people in developing countries, but also act to alter the sociocultural standards of these countries. Using a combination of mixed methods and desktop review of published and unpublished data sources the author attempts a chronicle of Ghana's past curriculum designs and its local cultural impacts viz-a-viz its correlation with issues bothering the global community.

  Keywords

Education, curriculum, cross-cutting issues, differentiation, pedagogy, 21st century skills, gender.