Security And Human Capital For Sustainable Educational Development In Nigeria : Re-Inventing Education Across Curriculum

The focus of this paper is on reinventing education across curriculum as it addresses security and human capital for sustainable educational development in Nigeria. In this paper, it is argued that, in addition to political leadership failure and other systemic institutional uncertainties/irregularities that exists in Nigeria, it is lack of proactive security planning that have given rise to the recurrent and multiplicity of school related insecurity challenges. As no nation grows beyond its level of educational development, the need to adequately secure vulnerable school environment cannot be over-emphasized. There is need for the entire educational system and infrastructure to be securitized and overhauled. There is no ‘correct’ pedagogy for sustainability education, but there is a broad consensus that it requires a shift towards active, participative, and experiential learning methods that engage the learner and make a real difference to their understanding, thinking and ability to act. From the global trend, the extent of knowledge in ICT by any nation partly determines their level of human capital development and ability to deploy it for security check. This has implication for school curriculum. For instance, if learners are not caught young in ICT irrespective of specialization, the likelihood that Nigeria as a nation will get it right would be doubtful. It is recommended among others that human security (which includes personal and community security) as well as food security, economic security, health security environmental security and political security should be considered in the curriculum review while sustainability should be in all spheres of life including food, climate, biodiversity, ecological system and waste, water and energy