BIOGRAPHY 

Prof. Offorma is a Nigerian scholar, researcher, and professor of Arts Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She is from Anambra State. She specializes in the areas of education, French, and curriculum studies. Her contributions in the area of education are geared toward meeting the sustainable development needs of the educational sector. She has addressed issues in Curriculum studies, Programme development and Evaluation, Gender Studies, Language education and French. In the area of curriculum, some of the issues Offorma has worked on include curriculum theory and planning, curriculum implementation and instruction, curriculum for wealth creation, curriculum across languages and curriculum issues in the twenty-first century. Her research in gender and education covers, among others, girl-child education in Africa, and boy-child education in the south-eastern states of Nigeria. Her interest in wealth creation, youth unemployment has facilitated her delivering of the lead paper at the Pope John Paul II memorial Lecture in Awka, Nigeria on a call for promotion of vocational education. Offorma is a member of several recognised professional bodies. She is a member of Academic Publications Association of Nigeria (APAN), Nigeria Association of French Teachers, World Council for Curriculum and Instruction (WCCI) Nigerian Chapter and International Body. She also belongs to the Association of Language Learning, Britain and also a member of Nigerian Academy of Education. Offorma has over 100 publications, including textbooks, articles, and journals from both international and local journals. She has six mainline textbooks and chapters in mainline books. She is involved in the Editorship of five different books and six different journals. She has a technical report on Education of Women and Girls sponsored by UNESCO.