Author(s): Abidat Oluwashola Mohammed & Oluyomi Susan Pitan
Curriculum innovation is the product of feedback from curriculum cycle, which would give rise to modifications of existing curriculum document. This modification however comes with its positive expectations as well as the challenges. To this end, this study, with the use of a desk review method, among other things reviewed the objectives of economics curriculum in senior secondary schools in Nigeria, the concepts of curriculum innovation and renewal and some of the limiting factors to curriculum innovation and renewal. Specifically, it identified and discussed two of the approaches to innovative teaching and learning that could be incorporated into secondary school economics curriculum. These are flipped classroom and Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI). Among the recommendations are: teachers should be encouraged to use innovative methods of teaching such as inter alia problem-based learning, flipped classroom, use of guest lecturers and Computer Assisted Instructions; governments, heads of schools and educational bodies should make training and retraining programmes available for economics teachers as an avenue to improve their professional competencies and keep up with innovative methods of teaching and instructional materials