9-3-4 School Curriculum In Nigeria: Verification For Its Accommodation Of Kanuri Culture In Maiduguri Metropolitan Area Of Borno State, Nigeria
Keywords:
Culture, Accommodation, Verification, Curriculum, SchoolAbstract
This research work on "9-3-4 School Curriculum and the National Policy on
Education in Nigeria was carried out to verify its accommodation of Kanuri culture
in Maiduguri Metropolitan Area of Borno State. The study is descriptive and
ethnographic in nature and was intended to describe the nature of the phenomenon
of discrepancy between school curriculum, National Policy on Education (NPE)
and Kanuri culture. The purpose of the study is to study the relationship between
9-3-4 school curriculum, National Policy on Education (NPE) and Kanuri Culture.
A sample of 137 respondents was randomly selected from 18 primary schools in
Maiduguri Metropolitan area of Borno State. The selection was based on systematic
sampling of 36 primary schools in the area. However, the study used a structured
questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. The questionnaire was
administered on Kanuri Teachers/Educators and Kanuri Education Administrators
in the 18 selected primary schools. The data obtained were analysed using both
descriptive and inferential statistical methods. The study revealed that there was
disconnect between the school curriculum, National Policy on Education (NPE)
and the Kanuri Culture which was the basis of resisting modern knowledge in
Maiduguri Metropolitan Area of Borno State. The study recommends that the
government should find means or possibility of blending all the Nigerian cultures
into the education policy. This is to be done through cultural pluralism as our
educational goal because Nigeria is a pluralistic, multi-cultural society in which
each ethnic or religious group contributes to the larger society within the context
of its own unique cultural traditions.
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