IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

WORLD JOURNAL OF INNOVATION AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY (WJIMT )

E-ISSN 2504-4766
P-ISSN 2682-5910
VOL. 9 NO. 3 2025
DOI: 10.56201/wjimt.v9.no3.2025.pg108.118

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Curriculum Designing: The Future of Smart Cities for Sustainable Development in Nigeria

Victor Ojorka Akor, PhD, Umor Augustine Okonny, PhD, Chioma, Atuzie

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Abstract

The aim of the study was to review curriculum designing: The future of smart cities for sustainable development in Nigeria. The concept of curriculum designing, sustainable development, and smart cities were extensively discussed. The factors to consider in curriculum designing for future smart cities in Nigeria were described thoroughly. Moreso, the intellectual benefits of curriculum designing for future smart cities in Nigeria were highlighted and how to improve Nigerian cities to become smart cities as well as the curriculum designing approach to be adopted was discussed. It was then concluded that curriculum designing would be relevant to serve as a guide to the populace in Nigeria who desire smart cities. The recommendations below were made in support of the study that, curriculum designers should use technologically contextualized ideas in the process of curriculum designing to avoid the challenge of foreign exchange at the point of constructing the city, the government and citizens should be involved in the curriculum designing process in order to ensure participatory process, higher institutions, secondary and primary school representatives and where possible students should be invited to contribute ideas before the final draft of the curriculum designed is released etc.

keywords:

Curriculum designing, sustainable development, smart cities

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