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Section A. Please indicate whether the following statements are True or False.
(1 mark)
1. Education: the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and understanding.
2. Planning is a detailed examination of anything complex to understand its nature or
to determine its essential features.
3. A System is the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and understanding
through various means, including formal instruction, self-directed learning, and
practical experience.
4. Traditional Thinking is like Linear Thinking.
5. Traditional Thinking focuses on the process.
6. Traditional Thinking ter:ids to think technically about problems.
7. Traditional Thinking seeks to understand potential causes and the dynamic factors that might
be at play.
8. Perennialists believe that the focus of education should be the ideas that have lasted over
centuries.
9. Social reconstructionism is a philosophy that emphasises the addressing of social questions
and a quest to create a better society and worldwide democracy.
10. Formal models assume that organisations determine policy and make decisions through a
process of discussion leading to consensus.
Sub-total=lO marks
Section B: Short answer questions
1. Of the six accelerators for scale-up educational improvement, discuss any four accelerators
that have not been successful in playing their role in Namibia's education system. Provide
practical examples to support your answers.
(20
marks)
Section C: Essay questions
1. With the use of a practical example, develop an education system that follows the
Collegial Model of Education Management. Your answer should include the main
assumptions, main features, as well as limitations of the Collegial Model of Education
Management.
(40 marks)
2. There are many challenges to education systems. In your opinion, which challenge is
the biggest obstacle to Namibia's education system, and how are you going to resolve
it?
(30 marks)
Sub-total=70 marks
Total: 100 marks
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