تطـــــور مناهـــــج التعليـــم العـــام في السودان 1900 – 2000م

Abstract

Abstract This study focuses on the development of general education curricula with regard to the educational policies during the last (2Ou‘) century and their definite bearing on educational development. The study is composed of five chapters. The first of which is an introductory chapter which introduces the theme of the study, and reveals the researcher’s intention as to shed light on the Sudanese experiences ill planning al1d developing curricula for schools, with regard to contemporary trends in education, and with specific reference to the period 190° -2000. Hence the methodology adopted comprised both historical and descriptive approaches for the study and analysis of official documents, relevant research and interviews with Sudanese curriculum developers at Bakht —er -Ruda office in Khartoum. As the researcher traces the development of the system of education against the adopted policies as reflected in the curriculum reform movements of the l970“' and the l990u‘, takes into account how decisions about curriculum and its practices are bound to be affected by social, economic: and political conditions of the country, and thus evaluating and assessing, to some extent, recent curriculum developments. The study ends by giving a brief summary of recent educational thought and international future trends in response to changing educational and social objectives in respect of globalization and the rapid advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Stemming from this, the resezirelicr looks at the expected role ofthe National Curriculum Development and Rcsczircli Center (NCDRC) and gives a general idea about the ways in which the NCDRC teiids to be developed, and suggestions on how efficiency ofthe Sudaiiese system oleducation be improved under relatively ideal circumstances.