Abstract
<p>This paper begins by aligning with the position of some curriculum theorists that curriculum is a set of learning opportunities and experiences organized to enable the learners in an educational system to attain societal aspirations and values, one of these being development which begins at the individual level, with the attainment of self-actualization and fulfilment, including a fulfilling employment. The paper then reviews the University French studies curriculum in Nigeria from its inception, and reveals that from the 1990s, the B.A. (French) curriculum in particular has increasingly produced unemployed graduates because the curriculum has equipped them with unemployable skills and competencies. “Français de spécialités” is proposed as a curriculum content innovation that would give the learner employable skills and competencies. A B.A. degree curriculum which combines the study of French language with that of another discipline whose specialized French language the learner wants to master is proposed as an effective strategy for the pedagogy of “français de spécialités”. Motivated by this researcher’s studies, his Department has adopted and is in the process of implementing this curriculum. The teacher’s innovative disposition is therefore an asset to French studies in Nigeria, especially at the University level where innovative thinking and research are of primary importance.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0628/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
Highlights
This paper essentially presents an innovation initiated by this writer in the undergraduate French studies curriculum at the University of Uyo, against the background of existing general content and practice in the French Studies curriculum in Nigerian Universities
Following an attempt to clarify the notion of curriculum used in this discussion, the paper shall attempt a review of curriculum changes in French studies in the Nigerian University system in order to provide a background and justification for the curriculum changes to be presented here
We have found help in the definition of curriculum offered by the Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors as cited in the International Bureau of Education (IBE) Glossary of Curriculum Terminology (2013, 16): “a plan incorporating a structured series of intended learning outcomes and associated learning experiences, generally organized as a related combination or series of courses”
Summary
U. Edung THE NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY FRENCH TEACHER AS INNOVATOR: AN INNOVATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF UYO FRENCH STUDIES CURRICULUM colleagues, and to stimulate an innovative disposition among them with respect to the content and methods of the curriculum of our discipline. Following an attempt to clarify the notion of curriculum used in this discussion, the paper shall attempt a review of curriculum changes in French studies in the Nigerian University system in order to provide a background and justification for the curriculum changes to be presented here. The paper shall present the innovation announced here, and the justification for it shall appear as the presentation goes on
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