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In this unit, you read about John Dewey’s concept of education, his philosophy of education, and aims of education. You also read about his curriculum and discipline. In this unit, you shall move another step further to look at the concept of curriculum, curriculum organisation, the nature of school subject. This will help you further to understand the course. The Concept of Curriculum One of the basic questions in education which must be asked by every school, every classroom teacher in every age and every country is “what should be taught? What should the student learn? And often it entails how it should be taught so as to produce the desired effect? You should know that since the early decades of the twentieth century, scholars have attempted to define curriculum. Until now, there is no unified or unanimously accepted definition. A classical definition of curriculum by Stanley and Shores states that curriculum is “a sequence of potential experience set up in the school for the

PREAMBLE This course examines the concept, meaning, nature and types of development. It tends to critically establish what genuine and authentic development consists of, in contra destitution from mere development. It pays particular attention to the four major theories of development, with the aim of examining their philosophical basis, respectively. The ultimate objective of this hinged consideration of development is to narrow it down to Africa, in other to a certain African’s present level of development and its place in the committee of nations. In doing this, we intend to dialectically establish and analyze those covert and overt compelling factors that has constituted a push back to African’s genuine and authentic quests for development. PHILOSOPHY OF DEVELOPMENT Philosophy of development is a fascinating area of research at the interception of philosophy, psychology and education. Development studies is interdisciplinary concentration whose main mission is to provide studen