Keywords
competency-based education (CBE)
curriculum development
competence learning
capacity building
transition economies
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Abstract
The transition economies of today are striving to generate human resource in order to support the
requirements of industrialization and developments. The governments of developing economies have
essentially dedicated policies for capacity building to develop skilled labor in fashion and textile
sectors. As we stream ahead in this development it becomes necessary to analyze if the design
curriculums could support the need of generating skilled labor from existing education systems.
This study aims to provide the students, academic organizations , teachers , industry and the
stakeholders a very precise understanding on what subjects are taught in the courses and what
importance do they serve finally. Further on, the aim of the work is to justify the rationality of the
formation of general socio-cultural competence in the process of fashion education in studying the
processes in developing economies.
The analysis of curriculums is based on Competency-Based Education model which exhibits the
credibility in various competence areas that are required to support the growth of developing
economies and the individual in a multi-dimensional way. The curriculums are selected and studied
from the two government universities in Ethiopia and Ukraine.