INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRATIC CULTURE AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

¹Agbo, Eunice Oada; ²Gana, Deborah Rekiya; ³Ibrahim, Okewu Josephine

¹Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Abuja

²Centre for Gender Security Studies and Youth Advancement, University of Abuja

³Department of Social Studies, Federal College of Education, Okene, Kogi State, Nigeria

Email: ¹oadaagbo@gmail.com; ²debgana@yahoo.com; ³ibrahimokewujosephine@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:

Incessant rise in thuggery, hooliganism, snatching of ballot boxes, armed robbery, kidnapping, banditry, herdsmen and farmers clashes, and religious intolerance is an evident to the failure of the societal democratic culture. Kaduna state has been experiencing this uprising which is the thrust of this study. The study uses Likert scale to measure the weight of the responses and t-test hypotheses to measure the level of influence of social studies education on the democratic culture of the respondents. At the end of the day, it was revealed that there is high extent at which social studies education influences students’ democratic culture. This was revealed when the Likert Scale means score for the study in both urban and rural areas was revealed to be 2.61 and 2.63 respectively while the testing of the hypothesis also revealed that there is a significance difference in the influence of Social Studies education on the democratic culture of students in the state. This showed that t-stat -0.02 was less than >t-crit 2.36 (2tail sig.) at degree of freedom 8 which implies that the hypothesis was accepted. Based on the established facts of this study, the following recommendations were given for improvement. The teaching of social studies education should be extended to the senior secondary school students. This would enable them to be up to date of the societal norms and values so that they will not be used as thugs in the discharge of their democratic process in the country. Teachers should continue to use diversified teaching methods such as dramatization, role play etc. during teaching and learning to enable students have a glimpse of the real life situation when the deviate from the learnt norms and value system in the society. Teachers should lay more emphasis on social studies education as a vital tool for developing democratic culture among students in urban and rural schools by using the Social Studies objectives that is humanistic citizenship, intellectual and value education. Teachers should continue to encourage the development of democratic culture among students irrespective of their gender by involving both in games, debates, prefect ship, drama groups such as flash cards, real objects, picture tape recorder, video, charts, resource persons resource places, maps, web sites, artefacts resource centres etc. Teachers should not relent in the use of appropriate instructional resources in teaching and learning of Social studies because it has a positive influence on students’ performance and behaviour in the society.

Keywords: Democratic Culture, Social Studies Education

TEACHERS’PROFESSION ETHICS IN CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT AND STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Korode, Abbagana Kolo

Department of Educational Foundations and Administration,

Federal College of Education, Yola, Adamawa State

ABSTRACT

The paper started with definition and importance of education to national development, also highlighted meaning, quality and commitment of teacher as critical in students’ performance. Identified and articulated in the paper is Ethic and its pillars. Other concepts articulated is classroom management and teacher observed skills in classroom. The paper further pointed out clearly objectives of secondary school education and students’ academic performance. Lastly the paper forwarded some recommendations to improve classroom management in Nigerian Secondary Schools.

Keywords: Teacher professional Ethics, classroom management and students’ academic performance      

SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS UTILIZATION OF MOBILE LEARNING DEVICES FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES IN OSUN STATE

Onojah Amos Ochayi; Onojah Adenike Aderogba; Onojah Angel Aneh; & Amoo Alice Titilope

Department of Educational Technology

University of Ilorin, Ilorin

Email: haymoresonojah@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT:

Technology is deeply rooted in the society and adolescents in particular, accept and adopt new technologies quickly. Many different types of technology can be used to support and enhance learning. However, several challenges could limit its adoption in the teaching and learning process. This study therefore (i) determined teachers’ utilization of mobile learning devices for instructional purposes; (ii) examined influence of gender on teachers’ utilization of Mobile learning devices for instructional purposes; (iii) investigated the difference in teachers’ utilization of mobile learning devices   based on age; and (iv) determined whether teachers’ utilization of mobile learning devices for instructional purposes differ based on qualification. This study is a descriptive research design survey type. 600 teachers were drawn from selected secondary schools in Osun State comprising both public and private schools. The research instrument was vet by six experts in other to ascertain face and content validity of the research instrument. The instrument was pilot tested on 20 secondary school teachers in Kwara state. The data collected was subjected to crombach alpha analysis and the result was 0.78 which made the instrument reliable. The result of the researcher instrument was done with descriptive and inferential statistics. The statistical tests that was used are descriptive analysis involving the percentage for demographic table. Research questions 1 to 4 were analyzed using mean, while t-test for hypothesis 1 to 3. The results of the findings established that most teachers judiciously utilize mobile learning devices for instructional purposes. There was no significant difference between teachers’ utilization of mobile learning devices for instructional purposes based on gender, age, qualification and school ownership. The study concluded that the use of mobile learning devices will lead to improvement of instructional purposes. This implies that teachers who use mobile learning devices for instructional purposes will teach better than those who did not. It was however recommended that educational authorities and the school system should encourage the use of mobile learning devices.

Keywords: Mobile Learning Devices, Gender, Qualification, Utilization, Teachers, School Ownership

PERSPECTIVES OF BIOLOGY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN RIVERS STATE

Gideon Wokocha

Department of integrated Science

Ignatius Aguru University of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt

ABSTRACT:

The research examined biology perspective to entrepreneurial education for sustainable development in Rivers State. The study employed a descriptive survey with three research questions which guided its conduct. Questionnaire was the instrument used to captured data and all the twenty five (25) biology teachers in nineteen (19) senior Secondary schools in Gokana and Eleme Local Government Areas of Rivers State were used as sample size. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation at 2.50 criterion value. The statistical results obtained reveals that the application of discovery, inquiry, demonstration and project techniques can effectively enhanced the transmission of entrepreneurial skills in senior secondary schools. Also, the research identified the non-inclusion of entrepreneurship education on the school time table, the apathy biology teachers displayed toward entrepreneurial practice and the inability of biology teachers to transmit entrepreneurial skills due to lack of competence considered to be the major challenges biology teachers faced in transmitting entrepreneurial skills to secondary school students. And to solve these problems, the study identified the need to re-design biology curriculum and the need to train biology teachers to acquire requisite skills. The research also postulated that a learner should be able to showcase a micro-bio entrepreneurial venture before graduating from secondary schools.