Purpose
This course is designed to enable student teachers to acquire the required knowledge and skills to help learners develop their educational potential and achieve the desired learning outcomes. It will allow the student teachers to manage home lessons. Moreover, it will expose student learners to the need to own and manage their learning centres and become employers of labour.
Objectives of the Course
The objectives of this course are to:
- Justify the relationship between ethno-pedagogy and curriculum
- Discuss curriculum as a process for transferring knowledge into application
- Analyse the relevance of the curriculum based on the national policy on education
- Explain the selection of objectives and learning experiences in the curriculum
- Outline the role of instructional methods and materials in the curriculum
- Explain evaluation processes in the curriculum
- Identify the need for curriculum innovation in Enugu
- Apply ethno-pedagogy in home schools
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, the students should be able to:
1. Define ethno-pedagogy
2. Give the meaning of curriculum
3. Explain the concept of non-school environment
4. Discuss the relevance of the curriculum based on the national policy on education
5. Draw out the relationship between curriculum and instruction based on the three domains of learning
6. Select adequate learning experiences and materials for homeschool learners
7. Identify at least five scaffolding activities for homeschool teaching and learning
8. Explain curriculum innovation in the subject area
9. Name three instruments used in evaluating learners’ performance in home-school teaching and learning
10. Discuss professionalism concerning homeschool teaching and learning
11. Identify five ways of public relations regarding homeschooling and learning
12. Suggest three methods of establishing study centres
Course Content
Concept of ethno-pedagogy, Meaning of curriculum, Concept of non-school environment, Critical analysis of curriculum in terms of their relevance and national goals, Relationship between curriculum and instruction in terms of objectives specification, Selection of learning experiences, learning materials, Methods and media of instruction, Scaffolding activities, Evaluation, Curriculum innovation in a subject matter area with particular reference to Enugu experience, Professionalism in home school teaching and learning, Public relations in home school teaching and learning, Establishment of study centres, Application of ethno-pedagogy at home schools.
- Lecturer : Rev. Br. Prof. Osuji, Gregory Ekene, fms