Curriculum development process in nigeria follow a uniform mode except for differences in details. Recent curriculum reforms at the basic education level in. Following this, in 2008 the federal government of nigeria, through the nigerian educational research and development council nerdc developed and introduced the 9year basic education curriculum bec in schools by realigning all extant primary and junior secondary school curricula to meet the key. A curriculum development team is recommended in order to bring both subject matter and educational methods expertise to the project. Pdf citizenship education and curriculum development in.
Edu 731 course guidecurriculum development national open. The universal basic education ube programme was introduced in nigeria in september, 1988. Curriculum inuse the formal curriculum written or overt comprises those things in textbooks, and content and concepts in the district curriculum guides. Citizenship education and curriculum development in nigeria. The curriculum inuse is the actual curriculum that is delivered and presented by each teacher. It led to the evolution of the first indigenous policy on education. Doc history of curriculum development in nigeria jacob. The history of curriculum development in nigeria curriculum development during and after the phelpsstokes commission 1925 to 1952 the phelpsstokes commission was noted for the initial failure to help in matching education to the needs of nigerians. Curriculum development and multicultural education in the nigerian. It is nothing than decision making that involves selecting and organizing the. Nigerian educational research and development council. Revisions and rewrites, based on feedback from these groups. Citizenship educati on and curriculum development in nigeria.
However, those formal elements are frequently not taught. Ijrre 1 2014 16 issn 20569726 improving the standard and quality of primary education in nigeria for national development opoh, fredrick awhen1, okou, femedein timipre2 and ubung, juliet agyngwuye1 1department of curriculum and teaching, faculty of education, university of calabar, calabar, nigeria. Improving the standard and quality of primary education in. The major reason for this was the excess attention given to academic curriculum. History of curriculum development in nigeria peakng. Historical perspectives oyeleke oluniyi centre for distance learning, ife, nigeria akinyeye, clara. Nigerian curriculum and national integration semantic scholar. Udoh abstract curriculum development is the curriculum planning process that results in the broad and specific curriculum plan. The 9year basic education curriculum in nigeria was developed by the nigerian educational research and development council nerdc in 2008 to realign primary and secondary school curricula to. This unit traces the history of how the present curriculum being presented for use in nigerian schools have.
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