Trends and Issues on Curriculum Review in Nigeria and the Need for Paradigm Shift in Educational Practice

Department of Educational Foundations and Instructional Technology, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. Nigeria ___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The dynamic nature of the society is obviously, part of the driving forces which makes curriculum review to become inevitable. The review process ensures that the eventual curriculum is not out of tune with the currency. The foregoing informal the thesis of this paper which examined the trends and issues on curriculum review in Nigeria and a call for paradigm shift in educational practice. In the literary search, a historical review of the major trends in curriculum development prior to an after independence was done. Thereafter, the paper discussed the context of educational reforms that had taken place in Nigeria till date. The paper submits the need to save Nigeria education and its curriculum from the gully of pitfalls and contemporary challenges by calling for a regular value –orientation and re-orientation vis-à-vis consistency in policy formulation, and sincere pursuance of its objectives as well as the urgent paradigm shift from theoretical curriculum implementation to better practical approaches in the theory and practice of education in Nigeria. __________________________________________________________________________________________