A theoretical framework for training socially accountable science teachers

Social accountability has been accepted as a framework, through which the needs of communities are prioritized in all education systems. However, there are considerable differences in the needs of communities in resource restrained communities compared with well resources communities. Consequently, there is a need for a specific theoretical framework which will inform curriculum design for science teacher training in resource restrained communities. In such a framework t he researcher  proposes the adoption of citizenship education as the philosophical basis for social accountability in education. Such as education should integrate knowledge-, reality- and an inquiry-orientation for the selection of content and planning the  sequence of learning experiences . It should also reflect citizenship-centred ideology as a central principle of the curriculum. The researcher believes that a curriculum that is based on this framework could facilitate      the adoption of social transformation and social accountability.