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1. OVERALL AIM OF
SCHOOL
CURRICULUM

2. ARTICULATE AIMS
An institution should have reflected on the aims of
the courses which it provides, and articulated those aims
clearly both to students (in course materials) and also to
the outside world through its programme specifications.
Aims articulated should:
 Enable prospective students, their advisers, and External
Examiners to understand the ethos and purpose of the
course;
 Provide the institution and internal review committees
with a benchmark against which to consider whether
courses are meeting their purpose;
 Represent the intentions of the teacher, (whereas
outcomes are concerned with the achievements of the

3. Selection of Aims and
Objectives
 Every curriculum is aimed at developing in the
learners certain competencies or abilities. The
curriculum process must therefore clearly identify the
aims that the curriculum is intended to achieve.
 Curriculum aims range from the very broad to the
more specific. In fact, that is why we use the terms
aims, goals and objectives to refer to them. Aims are
broad statements which cover all of the experiences
provided in the curriculum; goals are tied to specific
subjects or group of contents within the curriculum;
while objectives describe the more specific outcomes
that can be attained as a result of lessons or
instruction delivered at the classroom.

4. Factors in Selecting Aims
 Analysis of our culture: we should take into
account our cultural values, norms and
expectations when selecting aims,
 The present status of the learner: what has the
learner already known? What are his/her
characteristics? What is he/she ready for?
 The state of our knowledge of the subject
matter or content: We should examine new
developments in knowledge to see if they
contain things that are of real value to the
learner and society.

5.  Relevance to school’s philosophy of education:
each nation has its own philosophy of
education which its schools try to implement.
Nigeria’s philosophy of education is contained
in its National Policy on Education. We should
ask whether the objectives we select are
relevant to this philosophy;
 Consistency with our theory of learning: at any
time in any society, there is a dominant
conception of learning i.e. our understanding
what learning is and how it takes place. For
instance, the National Policy on Education

6. THE AIM OF THE SCHOOL
CURRICULUM
 The school curriculum for the 21st century is defined
as the learning experiences (learning elements,
process, social environment) to be provided to
students necessary for achieving the aims of
education.
 The school curriculum should provide all students
with essential life-long learning experiences for whole
person development in the domains of ethics,
intellect, physical development, social skills and
aesthetics, according to individual potentials, so that
all students could become active, responsible, and
contributing members of society, the nation and the

7.  The school curriculum should help students to learn
how to learn through cultivating positive values,
attitudes, and a commitment to life-long learning;
develop generic skills to acquire and construct
knowledge, which are essential for whole-person
development to cope with challenges of the 21st
century.
 A quality curriculum for the 21st century should
therefore set the directions for teaching/learning
through a coherent and flexible framework which
could be adaptable to changes and different needs
of students and schools.