Innovation Culture in Education for National Integration

Abstract

This paper looked at innovation culture in education for national integration. The education system in the 21st century has focused on innovation as a tool that revamps the traditional educational system. The need for quality improvement in the curriculum and the desire to produce students with 21st-century competency skills have made innovation the core emphasis in the educational context. Hence, school cultures that support innovation should be developed and encouraged extensively for national growth, development, productivity and integration. National integration is the creation of feeling of oneness where diversities are recognized and respected by absorbing a sense of nationhood. The paper discusses innovation culture in education, national integration, elements of national integration efforts in Nigeria. The paper further discussed the areas of national integration in education, problems of national integration and the themes that emerged in sociocultural norms were; the individual personality, interaction, collaboration and teamwork, support, leadership of a teacher as well as approaches for the construction of innovation culture in schools.