Reloading and Re-codifying of the Curriculum Contents in the Faculty of Education in a North-Central University, Nigeria

Reloading is the reselection and addition of relevant curriculum contents for provision of more or general knowledge that serves as basis for liberal education and specialized knowledge while re-codifying is the reassigning of new code to reloaded course contents. The objective of this study is to find out lecturers’ opinion on reloading and re-codifying the curriculum course contents offered to education students in the Faculty of Arts if these courses are to be domiciled in the Faculty of Education of the University of Ilorin. It is a descriptive research with a sample of one hundred and eighty-three (183) lecturers, which was arrived at through census enumeration techniques. The study has two research questions answered with percentage and frequency counts. The results show that all the courses offered to education students in the Faculty of Arts are perceived to be 1) reloaded and 2) re-coded. It was concluded that for an effective curriculum to take place and affect quality of living, a curriculum must be reloaded and re-coded. The study recommends that workshops must be organized for lecturers to cope with reloaded and re-coded curriculum and to upgrade their knowledge.