- ‘From Pedagogy to Paideia’: Physical Planning Education in Nigeria   832 kb by    Olufemi, Olusola & Jimoh, Umar | solaoluf@yahoo.com    Short Outline Moving from pedagogy to paideia in planning entails practical civic engagement and authentic dialogue with the community through collaborative rationality in planning education in Nigeria. Paideia empowers the whole person in producing new knowledge, 22skills and imaginaries that prepare practitioners to inform, influence and integrate new frontiers of planning. Abstract Planning education is changing from the normal spaces (classroom) to the virtual spaces (online teaching, Webinar, Twitter, Facebook, blogging, LinkedIn etc.) and the adoption of GIS and other new technologies. Pedagogy is the art/science of teaching that is the methodology while paideia is the education of the whole person. Adler (1982) defined paideia as “… signifying the general learning that should be the possession of all human beings”. There are about 44 Planning Schools in Nigeria located in urban and peri-urban areas (21 polytechnics and 23 Universities offering Town and Regional Planning Courses) and 2673 registered planners in a country of about 160million people. The Ibadan School of Planning continues to differentiate itself from other planning schools in Nigeria by adopting current methodology and embracing paideia through civic engagement and collaborative rationality as observed in the involvement in the Sustainable Ibadan Project and University of Ibadan master plan project. Paideia is critical for legitimising new planning frontiers in the knowledge economy and spaces both in teaching, learning and practice. Paideia approach to knowledge within the content and context of planning helps in reshaping the planning curriculum and produce new frontiers of planning knowledge in a holistic way that embraces the totality of whole person planning. The planning content, context, and process must reflect paideia and incorporate both practical civic engagement and authentic dialogue with the community. Paideia is a system of education or learning that empowers the planner to focus and situate planning within the context of a person’s assets (intellectual, physical, spiritual, social, natural, political, environmental and financial capital). In what ways do Planners seek to achieve Paideia or just Pedagogy? This paper contends that physical planning education should seek to impart knowledge and empower the whole person planner in attempts to produce new knowledge, skills and imaginaries that prepare practitioners to inform, influence and integrate new frontiers in planning. Collaborative rationality moves planning from pedagogy (methodology or planning content) to paideia (planning context, intellectual excellence and practice) specifically in Ibadan School of Planning. The current status of planning education in higher institutions and the profession’s policy initiatives in Nigeria are discussed. Particular attention is paid to issues of teaching and learning as embedded in paideia in the Ibadan School of Planning. The Sustainable Ibadan Project and the University of Ibadan master plan forged authentic civic engagement and collaborative involvement (paideia) of both students and the community. Urbanization of poverty and spaces; and urban sprawl with pockets of impoverished ghettos in the middle of affluent neighbourhoods and changing urban lifestyles are seemingly becoming the norm that planners have to address by engaging the civic society in Nigeria. Informal interviews were conducted among staff and students of Ibadan School of Planning and data were collected from secondary sources. Descriptive and nonparametric statistics was used to analyze the data. The University of Ibadan was established 1948 while the Planning School started in 1982. The Ibadan Planning School is a graduate school running a two-year Master’s programs in Urban and Regional Planning and Housing. Planners require new knowledge and skills to be able to handle the challenges brought about by urbanization, population growth, poverty and climate change. Paideia should be seen as an innovative way of teaching, learning, knowledge dissemination and planning practice. References Adler, MJ (1982) The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto, New York: Macmillan Publishing. So, FS and Getzels, J (2009) “Planning Environments: From the Practice of Local Government Planning (1988)”, in Birch, EL (ed.) The Urban and Regional Planning Reader, Routledge Urban Reader Series, Routledge: London and New York, pp. 238-241. Keywords Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper