Kehinde Adeola Alebiosu (Ph.D) is
Professor of science education in the Olabisi Onabanjo
University, Ago Iwoye. Nigeria.
She is currently the Director of the Institute
of Education in the
University. Her area of focus and research interest include teaching
effectiveness in science education, curriculum studies and evaluation at all
levels of education. She has taught courses in the areas of curriculum studies
and curriculum development in science, laboratory improvisation, science evaluation,
science technology and society, science methodologies and many science related
courses especially chemistry. E mail:
dromokenny@yahoo.com
The Nigerian
educational system took its root from the traditional system of the pre-colonial
era. This was a period of indigenous education in which traditional education
activities were practiced in various vocations like farming, weaving,
blacksmithing, pot making, traditional medicine, hunting, etc. Learning at that
time was characterized by apprenticeship and much of unrealized and unexplained
science and technology were practiced. There was no formal curriculum but the
training was relevant to the needs of the society. Some authors described the
training as somehow primitive and localized (Ajeyalemi, 2008), because it was
informal.
