TRENDS IN CURRICULAR ISSUES AND TEACHER EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECTS

Marian Oluyemisi Odunaiya ()
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Marian Oluyemisi Odunaiya: Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka

International Journal of Teaching and Education, 2016, vol. 4, issue 1, 54-63

Abstract: Education in Nigeria in the past was centered on recitation, use of conversation, lecture and questioning method to teach students new information and concepts.Traditionally, the emphases on our curricular has been on defined knowledge to be acquired with less attention on the development of skills, conscious articulation of the other remaining areas of learning behaviour, attitudes and values and finally learning to learn. This paper therefore examines the trends in curricular issues of teacher education programme in Nigeria. It investigates the nature of teacher education, its impacts, problems, directions as well as prospects for future development of the curricular issues.

Keywords: Teacher Education; Curricular Issues; Innovations; critical thinking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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