A Brief History of CON
CON was conceptualized by the staff of the Department of Curriculum Studies, University of Jos, Jos in 1982. Prominent amongst the staff were Profs. P N Lassa, Etim and Sali Bao. The proposal for the formation of the body was drafted and circulated to universities faculties of education and institutes of education, and other educational institutions like Comparative Education Study and Adaptation Centre (CESAC) and Nigerian Educational Research Council (NERC).
Individuals were requested to register for membership, either as ordinary members or as fellow and life members with the fee of life members being about ten times that of ordinary members. Based on the encouraging response to this proposal, an International Curriculum Conference was hosted by the Department of Curriculum Studies of the Faculty of Education, University of Jos, Jos in September 1982. At the conference, CON was formally established and launched on 24 September 1982 with its headquarters at the Faculty of Education, University of Jos, Jos. A draft constitution was also accepted for use in which it was decided that fellowship and life membership should not be conferred on any member until after ten years of active membership. All those who had paid for fellowship and life membership were advised to convert the money to appropriate number of annual dues and payment for some documents of CON.
At the end of the conference, the foundation Executive Committee (EXCO) was elected. They piloted the affairs of CON until 1986. However, following the relocation of Prof. Bao to United States of America (USA), Dr. Noel Ihebuzor was elected Secretary General at the Annual General Meeting in Jos in 1983.
Foundation Fellows of CON
The first biennial seminar and fellowship award was slated for 4 March 1999 at the University of Jos, Jos. The recipients were Profs. P A I Obanya, P N Lassa, U M O Ivowi, and S O Ayodele who respectively were the foundation President and Vice President, second President and Editor-in-Chief. A??er a seminar paper on --------- by Prof. P A I Obanya, with adequate support by UNESCO, Paris, the President, Prof. U M O Ivowi, conferred the fellowship on him and Prof. P N Lassa. In turn, Prof. Obanya, the foundation President of CON, conferred the fellowship award on Prof. U M O Ivowi; a??er which the incumbent President, Prof. U M O Ivowi, then conferred the fellowship award on Prof. S O Ayodele. Thus the four foundation fellows of CON had their fellowship award on 4 March 1999.
