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Publication Date: 2007-Dec
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(Re)thinking Outcomes-Based Education: From Arborescent to Rhizomatic Conceptions of Outcomes (Based-Education)
Le Grange, Lesley
Perspectives in Education, v25 n4 p79-85 Dec 2007
The year 2007 is the tenth anniversary of the launch of South Africa's outcomes-based education curriculum. Despite revisions that have occurred over the past ten years, the underlying approach to the national curriculum frameworks has remained outcomes-based education. Outcomes-based education has been the subject of fierce contestation in South Africa. Ten years down the line I therefore revisit some of the theoretical arguments levelled against outcomes-based education and also argue that outcomes-based education could be the carrier of alternative constellations of universes. This might be possible if outcomes (-based education) is viewed rhizomatically rather than arborescently.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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