ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Federal Government of Nigeria has reportedly adopted the nine-year Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) for visually impaired learners.
The government said the curriculum will restore hope to visually impaired learners as they are now to be taught with curriculum contents that meet their needs.
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Professor Ismail Junaidu, made this disclosure.
Junaidu explained that with the adapted BEC, their teachers would be more at home in the delivery of the curriculum contents that as the examples, illustrations and teaching strategies recommended is are unique to the peculiar circumstance of the learners.
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He spoke in Abuja during the public presentation of the National Language Policy, the National Reading Framework, the Adapted 9-Year Basic Education Curricula and other essential educational policy documents.
The ES also noted that the NLP approved by the Federal Executive Council was to assign status, function, and roles to languages at the different levels and arms of government and within the different sectors of the economy.
āIt is to ensure the promotion and preservation of Nigerian Languages which the policy now declared as national heritage. The policy also stipulates the use of Nigerian languages for instruction from primary 1-6 and their study and the study of other languages at the various levels of education starting from primary 1-6.
āThe policy provides for the effective research codification and documentation pertaining to languages in Nigeria and the development of related instructional and other text materials and resources including the ones that are electronic,ā he said.