CREATESPACE Curriculum Planning and Development: Principles and Practice

This book is the product of twenty-five years of research and teaching in the field of curriculum development, as well as extensive observation of, and consultation with trainees (educates) and classroom teachers on curriculum development problems. It attempts to provide help to education students who study curriculum Development in Colleges of Education, Polytechnics, Institutes and Faculties of Education of Universities. Its primary aim is to achieve a concise but scholarly account of the contexts and nature of curriculum planning and development, and of the problems and issues relating to them. This account, the author hopes, will contribute to the continuing effort to improve the quality and efficiency of the curriculum planning and development. The author therefore feels that teachers, members of school boards and educational researchers will find this book useful. The book is divided into thirteen chapters. Chapters one and two present curriculum planning and development in perspectives. They examine the meaning and purpose of education, definition of curriculum, views about curriculum scope of curriculum studies and history of curriculum development in Nigeria. Chapter three highlights the different patterns or types of curriculum organizations and their strengths and weaknesses. Chapter four to ten discuss the curriculum planning and development process. These chapters provide some guidelines on what to do on each of the various stages of curriculum planning and development. Chapter eleven examines curriculum innovation and change by highlighting the meaning of curriculum innovation and change, and the need for curriculum innovation. Chapter twelve discusses and some social contexts of curriculum development. Finally, chapter thirteen highlights the activities of some curriculum development bodies. The book is published by www.iiste.org