Exploring and understanding learning strategies used by learners to learn Business Studies
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2023-08-31
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National University of Lesotho
Abstract
Business Studies is one of the subjects in the Lesotho secondary curriculum, and its aims and
Lesotho’s educational aims seem to align. Such goals include educating for socio-economic
development with opportunities for entrepreneurship to produce self and wage employment jobs
as well as opportunities for further education at international levels. However, reports show
unsatisfactory academic performance in Business Studies to the extent that schools are phasing it
out from the list of subjects they offer, allegedly as a result of that poor performance. One report
showed that learners fail Business Studies due to lack of content and inability to respond to high-
order questions requiring application, analysis and evaluation in examinations. The poor
performance in Business Studies brings into question the issue of learning strategies learners use
to learn this subject. This study employed a mixed methods approach to explore the learning
strategies used by learners to learn Business Studies. Twenty-eight Business Studies Grade 11
learners were purposively sampled to participate in the study at one secondary school in Botha-
Bothe district, Lesotho. Questionnaire, interviews and focus groups were used as data collection
tools for this study and content analysis was employed to analyse and interpret the data. The
findings show that there are many learning strategies used by learners to learn Business Studies
in different contexts. Some of these strategies could be helpful and assist learners in acquiring
sufficient content of Business Studies needed for examinations while others could help learners
in the development of high-order skills
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Learning strategies, business studies, policy in education, content in education, context in education, entrepreneurship