Title: FROM SOCIAL STUDIES TO CIVIC EDUCATION: THE CHALLENGES OF CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA
Abstract: Educational curriculum is the conventional policy document by which a given society echoesits efforts and desires to bring about citizenship reforms. The curriculum has always been the avenue through which socio-political expectations of the society are translated into knowledge, attitudes, values and skills learners within the school system are developed(Okebukola, 2004). Based on this, Nigeria’s educational curriculum is tailored to reflect the national socio-political issues and concerns translated into national goals of education (Awoyemi, 1994).In solving the socio-political (citizenship) issues and concerns led to introducingSocial StudiesEducation on experimental basis at the Aiyetoro Comprehensive High School in 1963.Socio-political (citizenship) issues and concernsare transformed into objectives and topics embedded into the Nigerian Social Studies Programme (NSSP) in the 1970s and 1980s. Social studies was designed to mediate young learners’ construction of knowledge, dispositions, beliefs and skills to tackle issues and problems involving on democracy, human rights, good governance, environment and development, population as well as other challenges of effective citizenship development (MuyandaMutebi, 1994).
Publication Year: 1970
Publication Date: 1970-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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