USING TECHNOLOGY-BASED EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM TO ACHIEVE SOCIAL CHANGE AND NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION IN NIGERIA

Any nation that intends to achieve her educational philosophy has the onerous task of taking a critical look and scrutiny at her educational curriculum, which portends the totality of learning experiences, sequence or programme of events that go on in schools at various levels. A society survives when members exhibit sufficient degree of homogeneity, which education perpetuates and reinforces through fixation of essential similarities demanded of collective life to the younger generation. Education achieves this through critical analysis of its curriculum. Technology - based curriculum would pave way for poverty reduction, wealth generation, job creation, skill acquisition, man power development, employment and national transformation. Education through curriculum would inculcate skills that would make individuals reliant, which would yield a restoration of social order. It is within this thematic analysis that society, curriculum and technology are annexed. This paper is of the opinion that technology- based curriculum would occasion social change and national transformation in Nigeria.