Benedict Iorzer Labe, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Vocational and Technical education at the Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria.
Curriculum Development in Vocational and Technical Education
Curriculum Development for Vocational Technical Education and Training, will help current and future teachers find, understand, and critique the curriculum in our vocational and technical institutions through analysis of current and historical events and theoretical dialogues. It will offer students the opportunity to explore the curriculum writing process and critically examine current issues in curricula and curriculum theory. Students will examine the personal, political, professional, and corporate interests involved in curriculum development, as well as the complex relationship between curriculum and teaching.
About This Course
This course, Curriculum Development for Vocational Technical Education and Training, will help current and future teachers find, understand, and critique the curriculum in our vocational and technical institutions through analysis of current and historical events and theoretical dialogues. It will offer students the opportunity to explore the curriculum writing process and critically examine current issues in curricula and curriculum theory. Students will examine the personal, political, professional, and corporate interests involved in curriculum development, as well as the complex relationship between curriculum and teaching.
In this course "Curriculum Development in Vocational and Technical Education", you will get to understand what curriculum is and the various processes involved in curriculum development. As you go through the course, you will get to realize that the vocational and technical education curriculum In Nigeria today is wider and more related to the needs of Nigeria in an age of science and technology than it was in the past. You will also find out that the National Policy on Education is the most prominent official document produced by Nigerians for guiding curriculum development and education of of persons in Nigeria.
Course Aims and Objectives
The overall goal of this course is to enable you see what goes on in the schools as a product of society’s needs, aspirations and expectations. At the end of the course, you should be able to see and understand how the educative process is conceived and implemented. You should be able to see that what is done in schools is not haphazard but a carefully, well- thought out plan based upon the needs of the society at any given time.
Specifically, the course is designed to enable you to:
- deduce that schools do not just teach what they like but they only carry out what society wants,
- based upon their needs, desires and aspirations at any given era in their history, infer that there are principles involved in planning curriculum for schools,
- deduce that without a curriculum plan, educating the learners would be a haphazard enterprise,
- describe the process of curriculum design and implementation,
- explain the important need for selecting appropriate curriculum objectives, as well as selection and organisation of learning experiences in order to achieve the objectives,
- justify the need for evaluating curriculum using appropriate evaluation devices, and finally,
- conclude that having a curriculum plan is sine qua non to correctly educating the young ones in society.
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