Anderson and Bowman quoted by Akangbou defined planning as ‘’a process of preparing a set of decisions for
actions in the future. Curriculum planning is therefore concerned with the preparation of a set of decisions on
the subject and subject matter that teachers are to teach those to be educated in the future (Akangbou, 1984). In
that sense, the curriculum plan has to go through certain stages. These, according to Lewy cited in
Akangbou(1984) are :
(a) The preparation of the syllabus of the subjects which are in essence clearly spell out of the subject
matter;
(b) The production of instructional materials; and
(c) The implementation of the curriculum in the system.