Promoting Sustainable Development through the New/Revised Design and Technology Curriculum in Zimbabwe: With Specific Reference to Food Security

Abstract

Being part of a major on-going community development project in Makonde Rural District, this study focused on current activities aimed at finding out how some of the ideas generated since inception of project in 2005 could now be factored into the teaching/learning of technical subjects at various levels in the education system. This dimension of the project was prompted by the thrust of the newly introduced Curriculum Blueprint/Framework 2015-2022, having at its core, the link between theory and practice in problem-solving. So far, the project has generated several ideas that are likely to have an impact on the new curriculum specifically focusing on Technical Education, where the concept of Design and Technology (D&T) has been introduced from Early Childhood Development (ECD) up to tertiary levels. It is these ideas that needed to be discussed and shared at various forums; this paper being one such an opportunity. Approached through developmental research this study enabled the identification of several ideas, for which specific points were located within the said curriculum.