Nigerian Curriculum and National Integration: Issues and Challenges
Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · pp. 309–317 · Published 3 Dec 2013
10.9734/BJESBS/2014/6339Abstract
This paper reviews and examines causes behind the challenges towards achieving national integration in Nigeria. Today the country is in the grip of various destructive forces that are deteriorating the unity among its citizens such as Boko Haram and ethno-religious crises. This paperaims to examine some of the issues bedeviling Nigerian education and reviews its curriculum content and practices. The findings of the paper show that tangible efforts have not been made to review the curriculum and instill some aspects through which current challenges can be resolved. In the same vein, even the national policy of education armed with its designed need to attain national integration appears to be unsuccessful. Emphasis is given on the need to review the curriculum content with a view to instill some aspect that may likely resolve the current challenges and bring national integration. These include bringing in subjects that teach historical lessons on how Prophet Muhammad and his companions related with Jews in harmonious way. It should be made mandatory that every students must study and obtain at least merit in three major languages spoken in the country (Hausa, Yaruba and Igbo).
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