As Malawi grapples with decolonizing its education system and aligning it with its development vision, the national curriculum review emerges as a pivotal endeavor, sparking robust debates and highlig
Too late. Have we not had educationists all along? Have we not underrated Kukula ndi Mwambo as being inferior to Lord of the Flies? We actually need to decolonize the minds of Education managers and teachers first. Not the curriculum! Don't blame the curriculum, let's challenge those who have been managing our education systems. Their PhDs and Master's degrees are predominantly colonial biased! We need a client-focussed rather than expert-led agenda... Coz the experts are themselves "colonised" to the Western intellectual applications. The West will remain mighty coz they are in charge of the agendas. They design the menus and we are pretty much consumers of such menus. Period.
Too late. Have we not had educationists all along? Have we not underrated Kukula ndi Mwambo as being inferior to Lord of the Flies? We actually need to decolonize the minds of Education managers and teachers first. Not the curriculum! Don't blame the curriculum, let's challenge those who have been managing our education systems. Their PhDs and Master's degrees are predominantly colonial biased! We need a client-focussed rather than expert-led agenda... Coz the experts are themselves "colonised" to the Western intellectual applications. The West will remain mighty coz they are in charge of the agendas. They design the menus and we are pretty much consumers of such menus. Period.