IMPARATIVE FOR TEACHERS TRAINING PROGRAMME RE-ENGINEERING FOR ETHICAL AND VALUE CENTER EDUCATION IN NIGERIA.

Abstract

The paper is concerned with reforms in Education and the need for re-engineering Teacher education in Nigeria for better professionalism and National Development. In the process, key concepts like Teacher Education Re-engineering, Ethical and values centered education, SchoolCurriculum, National Developmentwere explained. A brief review of the state of Teacher Education and Development in Nigeria revealed the challenges to Teacher Education and DevelopmentThis paper having reviewed the weak values system in Nigeria strongly recommend the re-engineering of ethical and values centered education in Nigeria schools as catalyst for national development. It is the view of the authors that the pursuit of national development is first attitudinal and so the citizenry should be given new orientation that goes to ensure the overhauling and reconstruction of the total valuesystem in the society for obvious national development to be guaranteed.The authors advocated as a matter of necessity the development and introduction of a national policy on ethical and values centered education as a references instrument which will be used as a realistic paradigm for behavior transformation and ethical re-orientation. This is one sure way of attaining national development