Examining teachers’ experiences of implementing the Grade 12 Life Sciences curriculum

Abstract

The implementation of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) in different subjects in South Africa has been studied before, but the literature is generally lacking on the lived experiences of life sciences teachers implementing the Further Education and Training (FET) phase life sciences curriculum (Davids, 2018; Dlova, 2019; Imenda, 2016; Koopman, 2013; Koopman, 2018; Mabusela, 2016; Ngidi, 2016; Riffel, 2020; Siseho, 2013 Sitwala; 2016). Lived experiences in phenomenology means those often taken for granted experiences that we encounter in our daily lives.