Abstract

The importance prevocational education in the development of an individual in order to contribute to the technological and economic development in Nigeria cannot be over-emphasized. Prevocational education is a type of functional education that lay a solid foundation for the training of future engineers, technologist, business men and women, accountants, and entrepreneurs. This paper looks at strategies for enhancing the implementation of prevocational education curriculum in Nigeria. It further discussed the concept of curriculum implementation, Universal Basic Education (UBE) and its objectives, prevocational education in Nigeria, implementation issues of prevocational education curriculum in Nigeria and strategies for enhancing the implementation of prevocational education curriculum in Nigeria.

Highlights

  • Curriculum implementation is the key aspect of curriculum, because no matter how well a curriculum of any level of education is planned and documented, implementation is indispensable. Mkpa (2005) posited that it is the stage of implementation that many excellent curriculum plans and other educational policies are buried without trace

  • It is against this background that this paper discussed the concept of curriculum implementation, Universal Basic Education (UBE) and its objectives, prevocational education in Nigeria, implementation issues of prevocational education curriculum in Nigeria, and strategies for enhancing the implementation of prevocational education curriculum in Nigeria

  • Curriculum implementation, according to Onyeachu (2008), is the process of putting all that have been planned as a curriculum document into practice in the classroom through the combined effort of the teachers, learners, school administrators, parents as well as interaction with physical facilities, instructional materials, psychological and social environment

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Introduction

Curriculum implementation is the key aspect of curriculum, because no matter how well a curriculum of any level of education is planned and documented, implementation is indispensable. Mkpa (2005) posited that it is the stage of implementation that many excellent curriculum plans and other educational policies are buried without trace. Mkpa (2005) posited that it is the stage of implementation that many excellent curriculum plans and other educational policies are buried without trace. Curriculum implementation is the key aspect of curriculum, because no matter how well a curriculum of any level of education is planned and documented, implementation is indispensable. It is against this background that this paper discussed the concept of curriculum implementation, Universal Basic Education (UBE) and its objectives, prevocational education in Nigeria, implementation issues of prevocational education curriculum in Nigeria, and strategies for enhancing the implementation of prevocational education curriculum in Nigeria

Concept of Curriculum Implementation
The State of Universal Basic Education in Nigeria
Concept of Prevocational Education in Nigeria
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